1. ASP-DAC 2015 TPC Naehyuck Chang ASP-DAC 2015 Technical Program Chair

2. Special Sessions (submission)ID
Title
Organizer
Talks 1
Normally-Off Computing : Towards Zero Stand-by Power Management
Hiroshi Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) 4 2
EDA for Energy
Fadi Kurdahi (UC Irvine, USA) 3
Neuron Inspired Computing using Nanotechology
Kevin Cao, Sarma Vrudhula (Arizona State Univ., USA)
HIGH‐LEVEL SPECIFICATIONS TO COPE WITH DESIGN COMPLEXITY
Wolfgang Mueller
(Univ.of Paderborn/C‐LAB, Germany) 5
A bug's life: prediction, creation, detection and extinction
Tali Rabetti (IBM research lab, Israel) 6
Design Automation Methods for Highly-Complex Multimedia Systems
Sri Parameswaran
(Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) 7
Design Flow for Integrated Circuits using Magnetic Tunnel Junction Switched by Spin Orbit Torque
Mehdi Tahoori (Karlsruhe Institute  of Technology, Germany) 8
The role of photons in harming or increasing security
Francesco Regazzoni, AlaRI (Univ. of Lugano, Switzerland) 9
Bain Like Computing: Modelling, Technology and Architecture
Ahmed Hemani (School of ICT, KTH, Kista, Sweden) 10
Overcoming Major Silicon Bottlenecks: Variability, Reliability,
        Validation and Debug
Subhasish Mitra (Stanford Univ., USA) 11
Billion chips of trillion transistors
Chen-Yong Cher (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)

3. Special Session (Accepted)
Session ID
Title
Organizer
Talks 1S
Normally-Off Computing : Towards Zero Stand-by Power Management
Hiroshi Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) 4 2S
EDA for Energy
Fadi Kurdahi (UC Irvine, USA) 3 3S
Neuron Inspired Computing using Nanotechology
Kevin Cao, Sarma Vrudhula (Arizona State Univ., USA) 4S
Design Automation Methods for Highly-Complex Multimedia Systems
Sri Parameswaran
(Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) 5S
Billion chips of trillion transistors
Chen-Yong Cher (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) 6S
Overcoming Major Silicon Bottlenecks: Variability, Reliability,
        Validation and Debug
Subhasish Mitra (Stanford Univ., USA) 7S
Bain Like Computing: Modelling, Technology and Architecture
Ahmed Hemani (School of ICT, KTH, Kista, Sweden) 8S
Design Flow for Integrated Circuits using Magnetic Tunnel Junction Switched by Spin Orbit Torque
Mehdi Tahoori (Karlsruhe Institute  of Technology, Germany) 9S
The role of photons in harming or increasing security
Francesco Regazzoni, AlaRI (Univ. of Lugano, Switzerland)

4. 2015 CFP Purpose Balance the submissions and trend
Match with sister conferences (DAC)
Remove ambiguity to avoid excessive paper migration
Ensure quality review removing diversity in a subcommittee
Promote popular and timely topics

5. 2015 CFP
Number of reviewed papers in ASP-DAC 2014 and 2013

6. TPC size of the ASP-DAC 2015: 100 TPC size of the ASP-DAC 2015: 104
2015 CFP
TPC size of the ASP-DAC 2015: 100
TPC size of the ASP-DAC 2015: 104

7. Topic (subcommittee) Name
2015 CFP
Topic ID
Topic (subcommittee) Name
TPC Size 1
System-Level Modeling, Simulation and Verification 7 2
Interconnect/Device/Circuit/Gate Modeling, Simulation and Verification 3
System-Level Architecture and Design Methodologies 8 4
Power and Thermal Modeling, Simulation and Optimization/Management 5
On-chip and System-level Communication Design, I/O, Networks on Chip, and Memory Systems 6
Embedded Systems 10
Logic/Behavioral/High-Level Synthesis and Optimization
Physical Design 9
Timing and Signal/Power Integrity Analysis and Verification
Design for Manufacturability, Yield and Statistical Design 11
Test and Design for Testability 12
Analog, RF and Mixed Signal Design and CAD 13
CAD and Design Methodologies for Emerging Technologies 14
CAD for Emerging Applications and Cyber-Physical Systems

8. 2015 CFP Important deadlines
Deadline for submission: 5 PM JST (UTC+9) July 11 (Friday), 2014
Notification of acceptance: Sep. 15 (Monday), 2014
Deadline for final version: 5 PM JST (UTC+9) Nov. 10 (Monday), 2014

9. Track Chairs’ COI Motivation
General understanding on the volunteer positions
Pure service
No right to abuse the power for their interest
Getting rid of perception and incidences
Paper assignment
Paper selection
Best paper nomination
Sister and neighborhood conferences
Track chairs are not allowed to submit the papers in their tracks
Track chairs’ papers are separately handled
Suggestion on the best paper nomination
Track chairs’ papers are not allowed to be nominated as a best paper candidate

10. 10-Year Award Motivation
Traditional EDA topics have leveraged and positioned the reputation of major EDA conferences
Higher number of citations
Well formulated problems
Less chances to have harsh reviews
Free from out-of-scope issues
High-level and new topics are the driving forces of EDA conferences as of today
Suggestion on the 10-year retrospective best paper nomination
Plan 1: Two awards per year: from-end and back-end
Plan 2: Looking at two-year window horizon, and award front-end and back-end every other year

11. Other Businesses
Any other business?