ASPDAC

It's a great pleasure for me on behalf of the Organizing Committee to welcome you to the tenth Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference(ASP-DAC 2005) which is a sister conference of DAC, DATE, and ICCAD. ASP-DAC 2005 will be held in Hotel Equatorial, Shanghai, China during Jan. 18-21, 2005. At the same time, an exhibition about IC design tools, testing technique, and other aspects related microelectronic technology will be held in the same hotel.The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the researchers and engineers who are working in the fields of SOC/VLSI Circuits design and EDA/CAD technologies to discuss and exchange the state-of- the- art information on these topics.We have invited three worldwide experts to give keynote addresses on Development of Chinese IC industry, Silicon Compiler - Back to the Future and Design at the End of the Silicon Roadmap.The TPC, led by Professors Xianlong Hong, C. K.Cheng, Hidekazu Terai, Tony Ma and Youn-Long Lin, have reviewed received 692 papers from 32 countries and areas to organize the excellent program. After detail reviewing by the members of 11 TPC sub-session, 99,86 and 95 papers are selected as full papers, short papers and posters, respectively. Those papers cover the wide areas of hot topics on SOC, VLSI design, physical design, testing, TCAD and so on.The Program includes six tutorial sessions and three panel discussions. The 3rd Asian University Workshop on Semiconductor Design sponsored by City of Kitakyushu, Japan is planned at the first day together with ASP-DAC 2005. A satellite workshop on CM and a Ph.D. Forum are also planned to be held during ASP-DAC.The program includes also an important event- University VLSI Design Contest. The chairs of Design Contest Committee, Prof. Xiaoyang Zeng, Makoto Ikeda and Lin Yang selected outstanding designs for presentation. It's the first time for ASP-DAC to be held in Shanghai, China. As the host of the Conference, we'll do our best to make you enjoy your stay in Shanghai. We sincerely hope you have a good time in Shanghai, in China.