Date: Tuesday 19 March 2013
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Location / Room: Belle-Etoile

Organiser:
Marco Casale-Rossi, Synopsys, US

Chair:
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, UCB, US

About 30 years ago, Electronics Magazine awarded two electrical engineers and computer scientists, Carver Mead and Lynn Conway for their contribution to VLSI chips design; in 1982, the so called Mead & Conway methods, taught at 100+ universities all over the world, "not only have helped spawn a common design culture so necessary in the VLSI era, but have greatly increased interaction between university and industry so as to stimulate research by both"; concepts such as separation of design from manufacturing, design rules, silicon foundries, addressing complexity through design methodology, new, electronic representations of design data, have enabled tens of thousands of chip designers, and tens of thousands of chip designs. Today, as Moore's Law - a term coined by Carver Mead - has brought as from 10 microns to 10 nanometers, what is the heritage of Mead & Conway? UCB Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli will moderate an industry and research panel, to discuss what has remained the same, what was missed, what has changed, and what lies ahead.

Panelists:

• Luca Carloni, Columbia University, US
  
• Bernard Courtois, CMP, FR
  
• Hugo De Man, K.U. Leuven & IMEC, BE
  
• Antun Domic, Synopsys, US
  
• Jan Rabaey, University of California, Berkeley, US
  

16:00

End of session Coffee Break in Exhibition Hall Monday and Friday morning and afternoon coffee breaks will be located in the Salle de Reception. On Tuesday-Thursday the breaks will be located in the Exhibition Hall. Morning and afternoon (with the exception of Thursday afternoon which is a 30 minute break) coffee breaks on Tuesday-Thursday are extended breaks and will run for 60 minutes (coffee points will be open for the first 30 minutes only) from the start time indicated in the programme.