Tau 2025 Technical Program (draft)
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Session on Glitches, Soft errors, and Asynchronous Circuits
- [Invited] UPSET: SET Analysis and Optimization Flow for VLSI circuits based on Static Timing Analysis and Closed-loop IN-place Optimizations , Christos Sotiriou.
- [Paper] In-Place Timing Optimisation Tool Flow for Asynchronous Circuits, Dimitrios Tsalapatas, Nikolaos Chatzivangelis, Christos P. Sotiriou and Nikolaos Sketopoulos.
- [Paper] Fast and Accurate Glitch Propagation Modeling Using ANNs, Anastasis Vagenas, Dimitrios Garyfallou and George Stamoulis.
Session on Sensitivity Libraries and Modeling Special Effects
- [Invited] Get rid of nonsens from optimization and analysis, Chirayu Amin.
- [Panel] Sensitivity libraries and modeling special effects: Kevin Chen (TSMC), Ahmed Shebaita (Synopsys), Igor Keller (Cadence) (panel in preparation).
Session on Superconducting and Cryogenic Computing
- [Invited] Cryogenic computing, Michihiro Shintani (Invited, placeholder title)
- [Paper] Compact Modeling for cryogenic-aware forward body biasing in 180nm Bulk CMOS, Zhipeng Liang, Shin Taniguchi, Hajime Takayama and Michihiro Shintani.
- [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.
- [Invited] Applying static timing analysis techniques to novel superconducting logic families, Alex Braun (Cadence).
Session on IR-induced Delay
- [Invited] IR-induced rail waveforms and their impact on timing, Ahmed Shebaita and Qian Shen (Invited, placeholder title)
- [Paper] Analysis and Mitigation of IR-drop Induced Delay Effects Using Machine Learning, Megha Srinivas, Raj Shah, Omar Yamak, Ahmed Shebaita and Hamid Mahmoodi.
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
- [Keynote]: Timing in Biological Neural Systems, Louis Scheffer.
- Resource saving opportunities from standardization of holistic timing sign-off for energy-efficient Cloud silicon with Adaptive Voltage Scaling, Christian Lutkemeyer (Co-chair).
- [Panel] Power integrity, AVS, and STA: Christian Lutkemeyer, Christian Sotiriou (panel in preparation).
- [Planning] Future of Tau, Paul Pereira, Christian Lutkemeyer, Ahmed Shebaita.