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    A Brief report
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    Organized by
    VSI
    http://vlsi-india.org/vsi
    VLSI Society of India

    In cooperation with
    Indian Institute of Science
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
     

    IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

    Bangalore Chapter

    http://www.ieee.org

    First International Workshop on
    Interconnect Design and Variability
    December 28-29, 2006, Bangalore, India
    Venue: Golden Jubilee Hall, ECE Dept, IISc, Bangalore, India

    A brief report

    The First International Workshop on Interconnect Design and Variability was held during Dec 28-29, 2006 in Bangalore. The workshop was organized by VSI with cooperation from IISc Bangalore and IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter. It was attended by about 75 participants. C.P. Ravikumar, co-chair of the workshop, welcomed the participants and explained the goals of the workshop and that of the VLSI Society of India. N.S. Nagaraj, workshop co-chair, explained the motivation for the workshop and gave an overview of the technical program. Prof. Krishna Saraswat of Stanford University inaugurated the workshop. A number of renowned experts delivered lectures at the workshop. The theme of the first day was "Interconnect Design" and the speakers who spoke included

    . Dr. Krishna Saraswat, Stanford University, USA
. Dr. Ram Achar, Carleton University, Canada
. Dr. Shankar Balachandran, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
. Vijay Sindagi, Texas Instruments, India
. Dr. Sarma Vrudhula, Arizona State Univeristy, USA
. Dr. Jaijeet Roychowdhury, University of Minnesota, USA

    A panel discussion was held on the topic of "Top 5 challenging problems in Interconnect Design" where all the speakers above participated as panelists. The moderator was Dr Navakanta Bhat of the Indian Institute of Science.

    The theme of the second day of the workshop was "Variability" and the speakers included:

    . Dr. N.S. Nagaraj, Texas Instruments, India
. Mr. Tejas Jhaveri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
. Dr. Dipu Pramanik, Synopsys, USA
. Kelvin Lee, Extreme DA, USA
. Dr. Vivek De, Intel, USA

    A panel discussion was held on the topic of "Top 5 challenging problems in Variability" where the above speakers took part as panelists. The moderator was C.P. Ravikumar of Texas Instruments. There was lively interaction in both the panels. On both days, there was an attempt to identify some problems that Indian academia can take up for further research.