The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a high-quality forum for the exchange of ideas and results in critical areas related to the physical design of VLSI systems. The scope of this symposium includes all aspects of physical design, from interactions with behavior- and logic-level synthesis, to back-end performance analysis and verification.

The symposium is sponsored by ACM/SIGDA and with technical cosponsorship from IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Financial support has been provided by Cadence, Golden Gate, IBM, Intel,  Magma, Mentor Graphics, Sierra, and Synopsys.

ISPD 2005 slides are AVAILABLE  online.

Press regarding ISPD 2005

• EDA TOOLS: Frameworks renew life for OpenAccess
• Benchmark suite tests IC placement algorithms
• EDA development going in-house, analyst says
• Logic synthesis 'dying,' Magma's Madhavan says

Placement Contest Pictures

Symposium Organization

General Chair	Patrick Groeneveld Eindhoven University
Past Chair	Charles J. Alpert IBM
Technical Program Chair	Lou Scheffer Cadence
Steering Committee Chair	Charles J. Alpert IBM
Steering Committee	Charles J. Alpert - IBM David Blaauw - Michigan Jason Cong - UCLA Desmond Kirkpatrick - Intel Martin Wong - UIUC

Technical Program Committee

Lou Scheffer Cadence	Charlie Chen National Taiwan	Jiang Hu Texas A&M
Andrew B. Kahng UCSD	Patrick Madden SUNY Binghamton	Margaret Marek- Sadowska   UCSB
Igor Markov Michigan	Gi-Joon Nam IBM	Raymond Nijssen Magma
David Pan UT Austin	Prashant Saxena Intel	Narendra Shenoy Synopsys
Janet M.L. Wang Arizona	Xiaojian Yang Synplicity	Hai Zhou Northwestern

Publication/Publicity Chairs

Publication Chair	Patrick Madden SUNY Binghamton
Publicity Chair/Webmaster	David Pan UT Austin

Technical programs from prior years:

2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 Physical Design Workshop