PROGRAM

GENERAL CHAIR

Prof. G. SAUCIER, INPG, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Prof. T. AMBLER University of Texas at Austin, USA
Prof. K. ASADA University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. D. AUVERGNE LIRMM University of Montpellier, France
Prof. E. CERNY University of Montreal, Canada
Prof. J. CONG University of California, Los-Angeles, USA
Prof. G. De MICHELI Stanford University, USA
Dr. L. JOZWIAK Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Prof. M. IMAI Osaka University, Japan
Prof. W. ROSENSTIEL FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany
Prof. A.M. TRULLEMANS Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Dr. A. VACHOUX Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzeland
Dr. H. YASUURA Kyushu University, Japan

INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES

Mr. J.F. AGAESSE Thomson TCS, France
Mr. P. BRICAUD Mentor Graphics, France
Mr. J. BOREL SGS Thomson, France
Mr. M. BOUBAL Aerospatiale, France
Mr. A. GREENHILL ARM, United Kingdom
Dr. H. N. NGUYEN BULL, France
Mr. E. SCHUTZ Mietec-Alcatel, Belgium

PROGRAM

TUESDAY, December 15

8.00 - 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.45 Introduction
IP Market Status", Prof. G. Saucier, INPG, Design&Reuse, France
9.45 - 10.00 Coffee Break
10.00 - 10.40 Session 1 : "Object Oriented IP Modelling and Data Base"
Session Chair : A. Betts, STMicroelectronics, France
10.00 - 10.20 "Object Oriented Hardware Modeling and Simulation Based on Java",
T. Kuhn, W. Rosenstiel, U. Kebschull, Univ. of Tubingen, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
10.20 - 10.40 "An Object-Oriented Management System Based on IP Key Attributes",
P. Coeurdevey, R. Rafidinitrimo, G. Saucier, Design & Reuse, France
10.40 -11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.40 Session 2 ; "IP Protection "
Session Chair : U. Schlichtman, Siemens, Germany
11.00 - 11.20 "Intellectual Property Protection Via Hierarchical Watermarking",
E. Charbon, I. Torunoglu, Cadence Design Systems, USA
11.20 - 11.40 "Anatomy of a Protected Model",
S. Carlson, T. Hopes, Escalade, ARM, USA
11.40 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.20 Session 3 : " IP - Based System Design "
Session Chair : Prof. G. De-Micheli, Stanford University, USA
13.00 - 13.20 "Scalable Intellectual Properties for Design Reuse",
P.-X. Thomas, A. Pirson, F. Yassa, Synopsys, USA
13.20 - 13.40 "Effective Virtual Components for Synthesis",
Y. Fritzsch, W. Ecker, U. Schlichtmann, Siemens, Germany
13.40 - 14.00 "A Design Style to simplify IP Integration and Verification",
R. Foster, VLSI Technology, Germany
14.00 - 14.20 "Design of reusable modules for high level designs",
A. Reutter, B. Mosner, W. Rosenstiel, Robert Bosch GmbH, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany
14.20 - 14.40 Coffee Break
14.40 - 16.00 Session 4 : " IP- Based System Design II"
Session Chair : A. Greenhill, ARM, UK
14.40 - 15.00 "IP-based design with WARELETs",
G. Gorla, Italtel, Italy
15.00 - 15.20 "Encoding of Pointers for Hardware Synthesis",
L. Semeria, G. De Micheli, Stanford University, USA
15.20 - 15.40 "IP Reuse: A Novel VHDL to Verilog Translation Flow",
A. Fasan, A. Fedeli, STMicroelectronics, USA, Italy
15.40 - 16.00 "Modular Process Technologies for Efficient System Level Integration",
A. Sikora, NEC Electronics, Germany
16.00 - 16.20 Coffee Break
16.20 - 18.00 Panel : "IP Provider and ASIC Vendor Perspectives" Moderator: Prof. G. Saucier, Design&Reuse, France
Panelists: P. Bricaud, Mentor Graphics, France
I. Jackson, LSI Logic, USA A. Greenhill, ARM, United Kingdom
P. Delforge, Alcatel Microelectronics, Belgium

Poster Presentations:
"A New tool for Path Performance Optimization : POPS", S. Cremoux, N. Azemard, M. Aline, D. Auvergne, LIRMM, France
"IP-Based Logic Synthesis Approach Targeting XILINX4000 Implementation", I.Lemberski, Riga Aviation University, Latvia
"An Attribute Grammar Based Interactive High-Level Synthesis", G. E. Economakos, I. Poulakis, G. Papakonstantinou, P. Tsanakas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

18.00 - 19.00 Design&Reuse User's Group Meeting (Opened to all registered members of Design&Reuse
19.00 Banquet

WEDNESDAY, December 16

8.30 - 9.30 Session 5 : "IP Validation "
Session Chair : Prof. T. Ambler University of Texas at Austin, USA
8.30 - 8.50 "HW/SW Interface Validation in IP based System Design",
M. O'Nils, A. Jantsch, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
8.50 - 9.10 "What About Formal Verification of IP-based SoC Designs?",
A. E. K. Dekdouk, O. Ait-Mohamed, M. S. Jahan, E. Cerny, University of Montreal, Canada
9.10 - 9.30 "Hierarchy-Based Partitioning for IP Prototyping",
H. Krupnova, C. Rabedaoro, A. Abbara, G. Saucier, INPG, France
9.30- 9.50 Coffee Break
9.50 - 10.50 Session 6 : "IP Prize Candidates Presentation"
Session Chair : J.F. Agaesse Thomson TCS, France
9.50 - 10.10 "The Embedded Microcontroller ASIC",
P. Ainsley, Mitel Semiconductor, UK
10.10 - 10.30 "Design of an ARM based System-on-a-Chip for Pay Phones",
J. Riesco, J. C. Diaz, Telefonica, Spain
10.30 - 10.50 "IP Based Synthesis",
P. Cochennec, M. Johnson, P. Monnier, STMicroelectronics, USA, France
10.50 - 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10 - 11.30 Special Session on Relations with Other Events SASIMI'98 Presentation,
Prof. M. Imai, Osaka University, Japan
11.30 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.40 Session 7 : "IP Prize Candidates Presentation"
Session Chair : P. Bricaud, Mentor Graphics, France
13.00 - 13.20 "A VHDL Model of a Parameterizable CAN Controller as an Example of a Reuse Library Component",
H. Braisz, N. Schumann, W. Glauert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
13.20 - 13.40 "Toward behavioural level IPs : high level synthesis of the Viterbi algorithm",
C. Jego, E. Casseau, E. Martin, UBS University, France
13.40 - 14.00 "Design of an IP-Based Modular Architecture for an MPEG-2 Video Decoding Circuit",
L. Petit, J.-D. Legat, UCL Microelectronics Laboratory, Belgium
14.00 - 14.20 "PDF: Programmable Digital Filter IP Core",
L. Torres, M. Robert, S. Colancon, M. Paindavoine, University of Bourgogne, France
14.20 - 14.40 "CAM Macro Cells with Minimum Distance Detector using Time-Domain Technique",
M. Ikeda, K. Asada, University of Tokyo, Japan
14.40 - 14.50 Coffee Break
14.50 - 16.50 Session 8 : "Hard IP and Macro Blocks Design"
Session Chair : H. N. Nguyen, BULL, France
14.50 - 16.50 "Building the Bridge Between EDA and Manufacturing - Re-Use of IP",
H. van der Wildt, Sagantec, USA
15.10 - 15.30 "Analysis and Optimisation of a Hard IP Migration Flow",
L. Couder, R. Leveugle, G. Saucier, INPG, France
15.30 - 15.50 "A High Speed Completion Prediction Adder Based on Binary Carry Lookahead Adder",
R. Zheng, K. Asada, University of Tokyo, Japan
15.50 - 16.10 "Application of Piece Wise Linear Delay Representation to Macrocell Characterisation",
M. Rezzoug, D. Auvergne, LIRMM, France
16.10 - 16.30 "A Web-based Arithmetic Module Generator for High Performance VLSI Applications",
J. Phil, J.-E. Oye, Norvegian University of Science and Technology, Norvege
16.30 - 16.50 "Reuse and Customisation of Parallel Prefix Adders",
V. Tchoumatchenko, A. Guyot, T. Vassileva, INPG, France
16.50 - 17.00 Best IP Prize Delivery by Press Representative