2019 Best Paper & Presentation Recipients

“Dreamplace: Deep Learning Toolkit-enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement”

Speaker:
Yibo Lin | Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX

Authors:
Yibo Lin | Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX
Shounak Dhar | Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX
Wuxi Li | Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX
Haoxing Ren | NVIDIA Corp., Austin, TX
Brucek Khailany | NVIDIA Corp., Austin, TX
David Z. Pan | Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX

• “LithoGAN: End-to-end Lithography Modeling with Generative Adversarial Networks”

• “BRIC: Locality-based Encoding for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing”

• “A 1.17 TOPS-W, 150fps Accelerator for Multi-face Detection and Alignment”

• “DREAMPlace: Deep Learning Toolkit-enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement”

• “Accuracy vs. Efficiency: Achieving Both through FPGA-Implementation Aware Neural Architecture Search”

• Jörg Henkel (Chair) | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Yao-Wen Chang | National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

• Soonhoi Ha | Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

• Ramesh Karri | New York University, New York City, NY

• Laura Pozzi | USI Lugano, Switzerland

• Dimitrios Soudris | National Technical University of Athens, Greece

• Mircea Stan | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

• Sachin Sapatnekar | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

“Clouds, Containers, and your Simulations & Virtual Platforms”

Speaker:
Jakob Engblom | Intel, Corp. Stockholm, Sweden

Authors:
Jakob Engblom | Intel, Corp. Stockholm, Sweden

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“Glow as a Machine Learning Compiler for Heterogeneous Hardware”

Speaker:
Jordan Fix | Facebook, Menlo Park, CA

Authors:
Jordan Fix | Facebook, Menlo Park, CA

“Deadlock & Livelock Detection in Power Controllers Using Under-constrained Formal Testbench”

Speaker:
Ipshita Tripathi | Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Noida, India

Authors:
Ipshita Tripathi | Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Noida, India
Arumugam Velayoudame | Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Bangalore, India
Rahul Gupta | Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Noida, India
Vinay Garipelli | Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Bangalore, India

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“Improving Design Performance Using Machine Learning in Synthesis”

Speaker:
Gaurav K. Varshney | Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

Authors:
Gaurav K. Varshney | Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Akshi Tomar | Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

“A Hybrid Clock Tree with Multi-Spine Using Automated Design Methodology For Low Cost and Low Power Complex LSIS”

Speaker:
Takashi Hasegawa | Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan

Authors:
Takashi Hasegawa | Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan
Maki Yajima | Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan
Makoto Fujiwara | Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan
Takanori Saeki | Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan

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“A Multi-Perspective Approach to IC Power Grid Development for 7NM Based Designs”

Speaker:
Mahendrasing J. Patil | Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India

Authors:
Mahendrasing J. Patil | Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India
Ravi Teja Susarla | Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India
Surendra Boosam Kota | Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India

“Memory Systems for AI and Leading-edge Applications”

Speaker:
Steven Woo | Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Authors:
Steven Woo | Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Sanjay Charagulla | Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Frank Ferro | Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA