IWLS 2012 Program


IWLS 2012 will be held in 430-8 Soda Hall - Wozniak Lounge at the University of California - Berkeley, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences .

Friday June 1, 2012


12:00pm - 1:45pm : Lunch


1:45pm - 2:00pm: Conference Opening Philip Brisk and Ilya Wagner


2:00 - 3:30 : Session 1 - Logic Synthesis and Optimization I
Session Chair: TBD
LMS: A New Logic Synthesis Method Based on Pre-Computed Library
Wenlong Yang Fudan University, China Lingli Wang Fudan University, China and Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA
Functional Composition Paradigm and Applications
Mayler Martins UFRGS, Brazil, Vinicius Callegaro UFRGS, Brazil, Lucas Machado UFRGS, Brazil, Renato Ribas UFRGS, Brazil and Andre Reis UFRGS, Brazil
Generalized Templates for Reversible Logic and Their Uses
Pawel Kerntopf Warsaw University of Technology and University of Lodz, Poland and Marek Szyprowski Warsaw University of Technology, Poland


4:00pm - 5:30pm : Session 2 - Satisfiability and Verification
Session Chair: TBD
Program Verification Using Property Directed Reachability
Tobias Welp UC Berkeley, USA and Andreas Kuehlmann Coverity Inc., USA
Efficient Transformation of Various Timed Characteristic Functions for Satisfiability Solving
Yi-Ting Chung National Taiwan University, Taiwan and Jie-Hong Roland Jiang National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Variable Time-Frame Abstraction
Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA, Niklas Een UC Berkeley, USA, Robert Brayton UC Berkeley, USA, Jason Baumgartner IBM, USA, Hari Mony IBM, USA and Pradeep Nalla IBM, India


5:45pm - 6:45pm : Keynote
Moderator: TBD
Exascale visualization: get ready for a new world
Dr. Hank Childs,
Computer Systems Engineer, Visualization Group, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Professional Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis


7:30pm - 10:00pm : Dinner


Saturday June 2, 2012


8:00am - 9.00am : Breakfast


9:00am - 10:30am : Session 3 - Networks and Protocols
Session Chair: TBD
A TCAM Simplification for Packet Classification
Infall Syafalni Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan and Tsutomu Sasao Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
LinkMiser: Resource Conscious Routing and Reconfiguration in Faulty On-Chip Networks
Ritesh Parikh University of Michigan and Valeria Bertacco University of Michigan
Protocol converter synthesis by solving language equations
Giovanni Castagnetti University of Verona, Italy, Matteo Piccolo University of Verona, Italy, Tiziano Villa University of Verona, Italy, Nina Yevtushenko Tomsk State University, Russia, Robert Brayton UC Berkeley, USA and Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA


10:30am - 11:10am : Coffee Break and Poster Session
Session Chair: TBD
Logic Synthesis for Disjunctions of Boolean Functions
Baruch Sterin UC Berkeley, USA, Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA, Niklas Een UC Berkeley, USA and Robert K. Brayton UC Berkeley, USA
K-cuts and KL-cuts on Netlist Representations for Local Remapping
Lucas Machado UFRGS, Brazil, Renato Ribas UFRGS, Brazil and Andre Reis UFRGS, Brazil
LUT Structure for Delay: Cluster or Cascade?
Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA
An Analysis of Using Synthesis of Transistor Networks in 65nm
Gerson Scartezzini UFRGS, Brazil and Ricardo Reis UFRGS, Brazil


11:15am - 12:00pm : Keynote
Moderator: TBD
Transforming Biology to an Information Science
Dr. Ajay Royyuru,
Senior Manager, Computational Biology Center Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA


12:00pm - 1:45pm : Lunch


1:45pm - 3:15pm: Special Session - Software Verification and Testing
Chair: Debapriya Chatterjee
Corral: A Solver for Reachability-Modulo-Theories
Shaz Qadeer Microsoft Research, USA
Automated Atomicity-Violation Fixing
Ben Liblit University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Debugging Concurrent Programs
Vineet Kahlon NEC Laboratories America, USA


3.45pm - 5.45pm : Session 4 - Decision Diagrams and Sequential AIGs
Session Chair: TBD
Who Watches the Watchers: Toward Provably-correct Decision Diagram Code Invited Paper
Yousra Lembachar UC Riverside, USA, Ryan Rusich UC Riverside, USA, Iulian Neamtiu UC Riverside, USA, Gianfranco Ciardo UC Riverside, USA
New Results on BDD Sizes and Implications for Verification
Rick McGeer Hewlett Packard, USA
A Semi-Canonical Form for Sequential AIGs
Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA, Niklas Een UC Berkeley, USA, Robert Brayton UC Berkeley, USA, Michael Case Calypto Design Systems, USA, Pankaj Chauhan Calypto Design Systems, USA and Nikhil Sharma Calypto Design Systems, USA
Manipulating Time-Series Datasets with Binary Decision Diagrams
Stergios Stergiou Fujitsu Labs of America, USA and Jawahar Jain Fujitsu Labs of America, USA


6:00pm - 7:00pm : Keynote
Moderator: TBD
TBD
Prof. Eamonn Keogh,
Professor, UC Riverside


7.30pm - 10.00pm : Dinner and Social Event


Sunday June 3, 2012


8:00am - 9:00am : Breakfast


9:00am - 10:30am : Session 5 - Sequential Equivalence Checking and Fault Simulation
Session Chair: TBD
Sequential Equivalence Checking for Clock-Gated Circuits
Robert Brayton UC Berkeley, USA, Hamid Savoj Savoj Solutions, USA, Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA and David Berthelot Coder Charts, USA
Using Speculation for Sequential Equivalence Checking
Robert Brayton UC Berkeley, Niklas Een UC Berkeley and Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley
An Efficient Fault Simulation Algorithm for Analyzing Incorrect State Transitions Induced by Soft Errors in Sequential Circuits
Taiga Takata Kyushu University, Japan, Masayoshi Yoshimura Kyushu University, Japan and Yusuke Matsunaga Kyushu University, Japan


10.45am - 12:15pm : Session 6 - Logic Synthesis and Optimization II
Session Chair: TBD
The Synthesis of Complex Arithmetic Computation on Stochastic Bit Streams Using Sequential Logic
Peng Li University of Minnesota, USA, Weikang Qian University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, China, David Lilja University of Minnesota, USA, Marc Riedel University of Minnesota, USA and Kia Bazargan University of Minnesota, USA
A Tight Consistent Delay Model for Black Boxes
Robert Brayton UC Berkeley, USA, Niklas Een UC Berkeley, USA and Alan Mishchenko UC Berkeley, USA
Read Polarity Once Functions
Vinicius Callegaro UFRGS, Brazil, Mayler Martins UFRGS, Brazil, Renato Ribas UFRGS, Brazil, and Andre Reis UFRGS, Brazil


12:45pm - 1:00pm : Lunch


1:00pm - 2:30pm : Session 7 - Reliability and Test
Session Chair: TBD
Well-foundedness in Credit-Based Flow-Control Systems
Sayak Ray UC Berkeley, USA and Robert Brayton UC Berkeley, USA
Generating Local Test Point Activation Signals Using Controllability Don't-Cares
Kai-Hui Chang Avery Design Systems, USA, Chia-Wei Chang National Central University, Taiwan, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang National Taiwan University, Taiwan and Chien-Nan Liu National Taiwan University, Taiwan
How Can We Build More Reliable EDA Software?
David E. Wallace Blue Pearl Software, USA and Scott Aron Bloom Blue Pearl Software, USA


2:30pm - 2:40pm : Closing Remarks