CALL FOR PAPERS - TAU 2008
ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems 
http://www.tauworkshop.com

February 25-26, 2008
Monterey, California
Sponsored by ACM/SIGDA and IEEE/CAS

The TAU series of workshops provide an informal forum for practitioners and researchers working 
on temporal aspects of digital systems to disseminate early work and engage in a free discussion 
of ideas.  The fifteenth in the TAU series, the TAU 2008 workshop invites submissions from all 
areas related to the timing properties of digital electronic systems, including but not limited to: 

Topics:  
	Formal theories and methods                               
	System-level timing
	Transistor-level timing                                          
	Circuit-level timing
	Sensitivity analysis
	Full custom design analysis         
	Integrated functional-temporal analysis
	Incremental analysis
	Timing issues in low power design
	Power-delay trade-offs
	Adjacent line switching and coupling	
	Delay models and metrics                                                      
	Layout impact on timing
	Timing-driven layout optimization
	Timing-driven synthesis and re-synthesis
	Circuit optimization
	Uncertainty-based analysis 
	Incorporation of RETs in timing
	Reliability impact on performance
	Process & environmental variation models
	Statistical analysis techniques
	Clocking, synchronization, and skew                     
	Clock domains, static/dynamic logic
	Novel clocking schemes                                         
	Special circuit families                                          
	Asynchronous systems 

IMPORTANT DATES   Submission deadline     November 26 2007
                  Acceptance notification January 11, 2008 
                  Camera-ready paper due  February 11, 2008

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 
All papers must be submitted electronically. Details will be posted on the web site 
http://www.tauworkshop.com. Submissions are limited to 6 pages in the double column proceedings 
format. TAU is a workshop aimed at fostering a high level of professional interaction, not a 
conference.  Copies of papers will be provided to the attendees, but the proceedings will not be 
published by the ACM or the IEEE.  Therefore, accepted papers can still be submitted to other 
conferences and journals.  The intent of the workshop is to encourage the vigorous and unfettered 
discussion of the latest ideas in the field.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:
General Chair:   Noel Menezes, Intel Corporation
Program Chair:   Frank Liu, IBM Corporation