Tau 2025 Technical Program

March 10, 2025

[8:30] Remarks from the General Chair, Paul Pereira (Qualcomm)
[8:35] Why Tau and Timing Sign-off matters! Christian Lutkemeyer, Technical Chair (PIX-EDA)

[8:45, Invited] IR-induced rail waveforms and their impact on timing, Ahmed Shebaita and Brett Yokom (Invited, placeholder title)
[9:30, Paper] Analysis and Mitigation of IR-drop Induced Delay Effects Using Machine Learning, Megha Srinivas, Raj Shah, Omar Yamak, Ahmed Shebaita and Hamid Mahmoodi.

[10:15, Invited] UPSET: SET Analysis and Optimization Flow for VLSI circuits based on Static Timing Analysis and Closed-loop IN-place Optimizations , Christos Sotiriou.
[11:00, Paper] In-Place Timing Optimisation Tool Flow for Asynchronous Circuits, Dimitrios Tsalapatas, Nikolaos Chatzivangelis, Christos P. Sotiriou and Nikolaos Sketopoulos.
[11:30, Paper] Fast and Accurate Glitch Propagation Modeling Using ANNs, Anastasis Vagenas, Dimitrios Garyfallou and George Stamoulis.

[1:00, Invited] Transistor Model Development for Cryo-IC Design Environment, Michihiro Shintani.
[1:45, Paper] Compact Modeling for cryogenic-aware forward body biasing in 180nm Bulk CMOS, Zhipeng Liang, Shin Taniguchi, Hajime Takayama and Michihiro Shintani.
[2:15, Paper] Ternary logic operation of CMOS inverters under low-temperature and low-voltage conditions, Kotaro Tominaga, Ryosuke Matsuo, Yoshihiro Midoh, Noriyuki Miura, Michihiro Shintani and Jun Shiomi.
[2:45, Invited] Applying static timing analysis techniques to novel superconducting logic families, Alex Braun (Cadence).

[3:45, Invited] Get rid of nonsens from optimization and analysis, Chirayu Amin.
[4:30, Panel] Margin or Model - can you have your cake and eat it too? Florin Dartu (TSMC), Li Ding (Synopsys), Chirayu Amin (Cadence), Checkad Anvar (Broadcom), Christian Seo (Samsung), Benny Widen (Nvidia), moderated by Igor Keller (Cadence).
[5:30] Adjournment

[9:15, Standardization] AVS Anchor Seminar (Part 1), Christian Lutkemeyer (Co-chair).

[10:15] AVS Anchor Seminar (Part 2), Christian Lutkemeyer (Co-chair).
[11:00, Panel] Power integrity, AVS, and STA: Christian Lutkemeyer (PIX-EDA), Christian Sotiriou (U. Thessaly), Massoud Ghahroodi (Broadcom), Brett Yokom (Ansys).