Workshop on the Future of Design Automation Research

设计自动化研究的未来研讨会

• 批准号: 0638675
• 负责人: Ralph Cavin
• 金额: $ 3.8万
• 依托单位: Semiconductor Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0638675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Future; Design; Automation; Research

A Workshop on the Future of Design Automation Research0638675Ralph CavinSemiconductor Research Corporation ABSTRACT: Design automation, a commercially growing field with unique and strong ties to the academic community, relies for its basic underpinning on research. In turn, design automation tools are at the foundation of the semiconductor industry, and are becoming increasingly important in a world where straightforward scaling is no longer possible and the gains associated with it more elusive. Design tools are becoming increasingly critical to meet performance, power, and reliability targets and to shorten time-to-market.This workshop, with invited researchers from academia, industry, and government, will work to chart the future directions and needs in design automation, and assess where critical gaps are in supporting this research. In particular, the focus will be on the fundamental and foundational scientific challenges which need to be addressed. In addition to current roadmaps such as the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, the needs documents of the SRC, industry, and other agencies, the workshop will develop a clear statement what unique role NSF can play in the advance of the science undergirding design automation research, and why it should be a national priority.Some of the questions which the workshop will consider::What foundational work is necessary so that logic and physical design tools can make breakthroughs to realize their potential instead of incremental improvements?What will true 3-D design mean for design automation?How will multigate devices impact CAD requirements?How will new nanodevices and nanowires change the needs and abilities of design tools?What role will tools play in creating working systems from unreliable components?How will the design automation landscape be changed by multicore systems and increased parallelism?Will formal verification techniques finally develop into a better alternative to simulation?What new defects will need to be modeled and avoided by design for testability and test methods?

设计自动化研究的未来研讨会拉尔夫·卡文半导体研究公司摘要：设计自动化是一个商业增长领域，与学术界有着独特而牢固的联系，它依赖于研究的基本基础。反过来，设计自动化工具是半导体行业的基础，在一个不再可能直接扩大规模、与之相关的收益更加难以捉摸的世界里，设计自动化工具变得越来越重要。设计工具在满足性能、功率和可靠性目标以及缩短上市时间方面正变得越来越重要。这次研讨会邀请了来自学术界、工业界和政府的研究人员，将致力于绘制设计自动化的未来方向和需求，并评估在支持这项研究方面的关键差距。特别是，重点将放在需要解决的基础性和基础性科学挑战上。除了当前的路线图，如国际半导体技术路线图，SRC，工业和其他机构的需求文件，研讨会将制定一个明确的声明，NSF在支持设计自动化研究的科学进步中可以发挥什么独特的作用，研讨会将考虑的一些问题是：为了让逻辑和物理设计工具能够实现其潜力的突破而不是渐进的改进，需要做哪些基础工作？真正的3D设计对设计自动化意味着什么？多门器件将如何影响CAD要求？新的纳米器件和纳米线将如何改变设计工具的需求和能力？工具将在从不可靠的部件创建工作系统中扮演什么角色？多核系统和增加的并行性将如何改变设计自动化的格局？正式的验证技术最终会发展成为模拟的更好替代方案吗？哪些新的缺陷需要通过可测试性设计和测试方法来建模和避免？