Date: Tuesday 28 March 2017
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Location / Room: Auditorium A

Organiser:
Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL, CH

Chair:
Michael Burstein, CEO Billy.com, CA

Co-Chair:
Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL, CH

World renowned leaders in Physical Design will talk about accomplishments in this field over the last four decades, as a tribute to Ralph Otten, pioneer of this field and prematurely died in an accident.

Time	Label	Presentation Title Authors
14:30	3.9.1	CHIP DESIGN - PHYSICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL Author: Dave Liu, NTHU, TW
14:45	3.9.2	AUTOMATIC FLOORPLAN DESIGN Author: Martin Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US
15:00	3.9.3	THE EVOLUTION OF FLOORPLANNING Author: Antun Domic, Synopsys, US
15:15	3.9.4	FROM SILICON COMPILER TO PHYSICAL SYNTHESIS: RALPH OTTEN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDA Author: Patrick Groeneweld, Synopsys, US
15:30	3.9.5	DEALING WITH EXPLODING DESIGN RULE NUMBERS AND COMPLEXITY Author: Raul Camposano, Sage Design Automation, US
15:45	3.9.6	IN MEMORIAM OF RALPH OTTEN: BREAKING DOWN THE COMPLEXITY OF LAYOUT DESIGN UNDER MOORE'S LAW Author: Jochen Jess, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
16:00		End of session Coffee Break in Exhibition Area On all conference days (Tuesday to Thursday), coffee and tea will be served during the coffee breaks at the below-mentioned times in the exhibition area. Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Wednesday, March 29, 2017 Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Thursday, March 30, 2017 Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00