SOC 2006
  International Symposium on System-on-Chip 2006
  13.11.2006 - 16.11.2006
  Tampere Hall
  Tampere-Finland

NOTE! All industry and poster sessions in Rondo, all other sessions in Studio.

Program Schedule

Preliminary Program as of September 21, 2006
MONDAY

 SESSION MonTut: Tutorial on Bluespec System Verilog
 Date: 13 November 2006
 Time: 09:00 - 17:00
 Location: Sonaatti

 SESSION MonReg: Registration
 Date: Monday November 13, 2006
 Time: 17:00 - 17:30
 Location: in front of Sonaatti

TUESDAY

 SESSION TueReg: Registration and Coffee
 Date: Tuesday November 14, 2006
 Time: 09:00 - 10:00
 Location: In front of Studio
 Sponsor(s): Tensilica

 SESSION TueAmOR1: Opening
 Date: Tuesday November 14, 2006
 Time: 10:00 - 10:30
 Location: Studio

 SESSION TueAm2: Invited1
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 10:30 - 11:15
 Location: Studio
 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology

 10:30   [1084] - THE FUTURE OF NANOMETER SOC DESIGN
Steve Leibson, Tensilica, USA
 
 SESSION TueAm3: Industry1 and Coffee
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 11:15 - 12:15
 Location: Rondo

 11:15   [1075] - USING SPIRIT CORES IN SONICSSTUDIO
Kamil Synek, Sonics, Inc., United States
 
 11:45   [1074] - IP REUSE FOR FLEXIBLE & EFFICIENT DSP PLATFORM CHIPS
Paul Heysters, Recore Systems, Netherlands
 
 SESSION TueAm4: Invited2
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 12:15 - 13:00
 Location: Studio
 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology

 12:15   [1079] - SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN EXPERIENCES AND THE NEED FOR STANDARDIZATION
Vesa Lahtinen, Nokia, Finland
 
 SESSION TueLunch: Lunch
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 13:00 - 14:20
 Location: Restaurant Fuuga

 SESSION TuePm1: SoC Applications
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 14:20 - 15:40
 Location: Studio

 14:20   [1011] - AN ULTRA LOW-POWER BODY SENSOR NETWORK CONTROL PROCESSOR WITH CENTRALIZED NODE CONTROL
Sungdae Choi, Kyomin Sohn, Hyejung Kim, Jooyoung Kim, Seong-Jun Song, Namjun Cho, Jerald Yoo, Hoi-Jun Yoo, KAIST, South Korea
 
 14:40   [1036] - IMPLEMENTATION OF AN HSDPA RECEIVER WITH A CUSTOMIZED VECTOR PROCESSOR
Kim Rounioja, Kimmo Puusaari, Nokia, Finland
 
 15:00   [1058] - A LEAK RESISTANT SOC TO COUNTERACT SIDE CHANNEL ATTACKS
Daniel Mesquita, LIRMM, France; Benoit Badrignans, Netheos, France; Lionel Torres, Gilles Sassatelli, Michel Robert, LIRMM, France; Fernando Moraes, PUCRS, Brazil
 
 15:20   [1060] - ANALOG TELEVISION, WIMAX AND DVB-H ON THE SAME SOC PLATFORM
Daniel Iancu, Sandbridge Technologies, United States
 
 SESSION TuePm2: Industry2 and Coffee
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 15:40 - 16:40
 Location: Rondo

 15:40   [1076] - DEVELOPMENT AND VERIFICATION OF EMBEDDED FIRMWARE USING VIRTUAL SYSTEM PROTOTYPING
Thomas Eckart, Infineon Technologies AG, Germany; Martin Schnieringer, VaST Systems Technologies, Germany
 
 16:10   [1089] - ESL - A VIABLE APPROACH?
Mark Croft, Mentor Graphics, USA
 
 SESSION TuePm3: Invited3
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 16:40 - 17:25
 Location: Studio
 Chair: Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology

 16:40   [1083] - BLUESPEC SYSTEM VERILOG
Arvind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
 
 SESSION TuePm4: Reception in Rondo
 Date: 14 November 2006
 Time: 17:25 - 19:00
 Location: Rondo

WEDNESDAY

 SESSION WedAm1: Reconfigurability
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 09:00 - 10:00
 Location: Studio

 09:00   [1002] - DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION: CORE RELOCATION VIA PARTIAL BITSTREAMS FILTERING WITH MINIMAL OVERHEAD
Ferrandi Fabrizio, Massimo Morandi, Marco Novati, Marco Santambrogio, Donatella Sciuto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 
 09:20   [1050] - EXTERNAL MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR VIRTEX II PRO
Blagomir Donchev, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria; Georgi Kuzmanov, Georgi Gaydadjiev, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
 
 09:40   [1061] - RECONFIGURABLE FABRIC INTERCONNECTS
Stamatis Vassiliadis, Ioannis Sourdis, TU Delft, Netherlands
 
 SESSION WedAm2: Industry3 and Coffee
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 10:00 - 11:00
 Location: Rondo

 10:00   [1072] - CONVERGENCE OF SIMULATION AND IN-SYSTEM DEBUG
Doug Amos, Synplicity, United Kingdom
 
 10:30   [1087] - ARTERIS' NETWORK-ON-CHIP (NOC) POWER MANAGEMENT; A NEW SCALE CONTROLLING SOC ENERGY
Alain Fanet, Arteris, France
 
 SESSION WedAm3: Invited4
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 11:00 - 11:45
 Location: Studio

 11:00   [1081] - DESIGN METHODOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE FOR SDR SYSTEMS
John Glossner, Sandbridge Technologies, USA
 
 SESSION WedAm4: TTA and Networks
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 11:45 - 12:45
 Location: Studio

 11:45   [1043] - LOOP SCHEDULING FOR TRANSPORT TRIGGERED ARCHITECTURE PROCESSORS
Perttu Salmela, Risto Mäkinen, Pekka Jääskeläinen, Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 12:05   [1051] - MINIMIZING HOT SPOTS IN NOCS THROUGH A DYNAMIC ROUTING ALGORITHM BASED ON INPUT AND OUTPUT SELECTIONS
Masoud Daneshtalab, Ali Afzali-Kusha, Siamak Mohammadi Tehran university, Iran
 
 12:25   [1059] - EFFICIENT LINK ARCHITECTURE FOR ON-CHIP SERIAL LINKS AND NETWORKS
Jayaprakash Balachandran, IMEC, Belgium
 
 SESSION WedLunch: Lunch
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 12:45 - 13:45
 Location: Restaurant Fuuga

 SESSION WedPm1: Invited5
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 13:45 - 14:30
 Location: Studio

 13:45   [1082] - CO-MODEL FOR CO-DESIGN : MODELING, SIMULATION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Jean-Luc de Keyser, LIFL, France
 
 SESSION WedPm2: Industry4 and Coffee
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 14:30 - 15:30
 Location: Rondo

 14:30   [1088] - DESIGN OF ASIPS IN MULTIPROCESSOR SOCS USING THE CHESS/CHECKERS RETARGETABLE TOOL SUITE
Gert Goossens, Dirk Lanneer, Werner Geurts, Johan van Praet, Target Compiler Technologies, Belgium
 
 15:00   [1077] - ENHANCED LEGACY 68000 INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE AS A BASIS FOR SYSTEM ON CHIP DEVELOPMENT
Wojciech Sakowski, Silesian University of Technology, Poland; Wlodzimierz Wrona, Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna, Poland; Sebastian Kaprowski, Maciej Przybysz, Evatronix SA, Poland
 
 SESSION WedPm3: Invited6
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 15:30 - 16:15
 Location: Studio

 15:30   [1080] - TESTABILITY OF SOC DESIGNS
Yervant Zorian, Virage Logic, USA
 
 SESSION WedPm4: Invited 7
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 16:15 - 17:00
 Location: Studio

 16:15   [1085] - VIRTUAL HARDWARE PLATFORMS IN ESL DESIGN
Andreas Hoffmann, CoWare, USA
 
 SESSION WedPm5: Coffee break in front of Studio
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 17:00 - 17:15
 Location: Studio

 SESSION WedPm6: Panel discussion
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 17:15 - 18:30
 Location: Studio

 SESSION WedDinner: Banquet in downtown Tampere
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 19:00 - 22:00
 Location: Restaurant

THURSDAY

 SESSION ThuAm1: Invited8
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 09:00 - 09:45
 Location: Studio

 09:00   [1086] - EXPLORING APPLICATION-LEVEL CONCURRENCY IN SOC DESIGN
Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
 
 SESSION ThuAm2: Poster1 and Coffee
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 09:45 - 11:00
 Location: Rondo

 [1027] - POWER ESTIMATION FOR IP-BASED MODULES
Yaseer A. Durrani, Teresa Riesgo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
 
 [1032] - SERIAL BUS ENCODING FOR LOW POWER APPLICATION
Mohsen Saneei, Ali Afzali-Kusha, Zainalabedin Navabi, University of Tehran, Iran
 
 [1034] - OPTIMIZED SYNTHESIS OF DSP CORES COMBINING LOGIC-BASED AND EMBEDDED FPGA RESOURCES
Gabriel Caffarena, Juan A. Lopez, Carlos Carreras, Octavio Nieto-Taladriz, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
 
 [1039] - FAULT-TOLERANT ROUTING APPROACH FOR RECONFIGURABLE NETWORKS-ON-CHIP
Pekka Rantala, Teijo Lehtonen, Jouni Isoaho, Juha Plosila, University of Turku, Dept. of Information Technology, Communication Systems Lab., Finland
 
 [1040] - ALGORITHMS FOR LEAKAGE REDUCTION WITH DUAL THRESHOLD DESIGN TECHNIQUES
Konrad Engel, Thomas Kalinowski, Roger Labahn, Frank Sill, Dirk Timmermnn, University of Rostock, Germany
 
 [1013] - REALIZING MULTIOPERATIONS FOR STEP CACHED MP-SOCS
Martti Forsell, VTT, Finland
 
 [1019] - USING CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING TO ACHIEVE OPTIMAL PREFETCH SCHEDULING FOR DEPENDENT TASKS ON RUN-TIME RECONFIGURABLE DEVICES
Yang Qu, Juha-Pekka Soininen, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Finland; Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 [1020] - DESIGN AND VERIFICATION OF A VHDL MODEL OF A FLOATING-POINT UNIT FOR A RISC MICROPROCESSOR
Claudio Brunelli, Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 [1022] - INTERCONNECTION GENERATION FOR SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DESIGN
Markus Winter, Gerhard Fettweis, TU Dresden, Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, Germany
 
 [1056] - PARAMETERIZING SIMULATED ANNEALING FOR DISTRIBUTING TASK GRAPHS ON MULTIPROCESSOR SOCS
Heikki Orsila, Tero Kangas, Erno Salminen, Timo Hämäläinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 SESSION ThuAm3: Network-on-Chip
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 11:00 - 12:20
 Location: Studio

 11:00   [1017] - EVALUATION OF CURRENT QOS MECHANISMS IN NETWORKS ON CHIP
Aline Mello, Leonel Tedesco, Ney Calazans, Fernando Moraes, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 
 11:20   [1025] - MINIMISING DYNAMIC POWER CONSUMPTION IN ON-CHIP NETWORKS
Robert Mullins, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
 11:40   [1044] - COMPARISON OF A TIMING-ERROR TOLERANT SCHEME WITH A TRADITIONAL RE-TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR NETWORKS ON CHIPS
Srinivasan Murali, Stanford University, United States; Rutuparna Tamhankar, Marvell Semiconductors, United States; Federico Angiolini, Antonio Pullini, University of Bologna, Italy; David Atienza, EPFL, Switzerland; Luca Benini, University of Bologna, Italy; Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL, Switzerland
 
 12:00   [1047] - A HIGH-THROUGHPUT NETWORK-ON-CHIP ARCHITECTURE FOR SYSTEMS-ON-CHIP INTERCONNECT
Abdelhafid Bouhraoua, Muhammad ElRabaa, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
 
 SESSION ThuLunch: Lunch
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 12:20 - 13:30
 Location: Restaurant Fuuga

 SESSION ThuPm1: Invited9
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 13:30 - 14:15
 Location: Studio

 13:30   [1078] - DATAFLOW TRANSFORMATIONS IN HIGH-LEVEL DSP SYSTEM DESIGN
Sankalita Saha, Sebastian Puthenpurayil, Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, USA
 
 SESSION ThuPm2: Poster2 and Coffee
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 14:15 - 15:15
 Location: Rondo

 [1041] - REGISTER FILE PARTITIONING WITH CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING
Perttu Salmela, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Chung-Ching Shen, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 [1046] - FORMAL MODELLING OF MULTICLOCKED SOC SYSTEMS
Tomi Westerlund, Juha Plosila, University of Turku, Finland
 
 [1048] - HIGH-LEVEL OPTIMIZATION OF ASYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS UTILIZING CONDITIONAL RESTRUCTURING
Mahtab Niknahad, Kamran Saleh, Mehrdad Najibi, Hossein Pedram, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
 
 [1049] - STRUCTURAL VERIFICATION IN MINIMAL TIME
Martin Holzer, Bastian Knerr, Markus Rupp, TU-Vienna, Austria
 
 [1063] - SIXD: A CONFIGURABLE APPLICATION-SPECIFIC SISD/SIMD MICROPROCESSOR SOFT-CORE
Nehir Sönmez, Arda Yurdakul, Bogazici University, Turkey
 
 [1066] - A VALIDATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION TOOL FOR PROTONOC
David Castells-Rufas, Jaume Joven, Jordi Carrabina, Cephis - UAB, Spain
 
 [1068] - ANALYSIS OF CROSSTALK AND PROCESS VARIATIONS EFFECTS ON ON-CHIP INTERCONNECTS
Ethiopia Nigussie, Sampo Tuuna, Juha Plosila, Jouni Isoaho, University of Turku, Finland
 
 [1070] - NON-POWER-OF-TWO FFTS: EXPLORING THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE MONTIUM
Pascal T. Wolkotte, Marcel D. van de Burgwal, Gerard J. M. Smit, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 
 [1071] - PROGRAMMABILITY IN DICTIONARY-BASED COMPRESSION
Jari Heikkinen, Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology,
 
 SESSION ThuPm3: SoC Design and Analysis
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 15:15 - 16:35
 Location: Studio

 15:15   [1024] - APPLICATION SCENARIOS IN STREAMING-ORIENTED EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN
Stefan Valentin Gheorghita, Twan Basten, Henk Corporaal, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
 
 15:35   [1042] - HARDWARE COST ANALYSIS FOR WEAKLY PROGRAMMABLE PROCESSOR ARRAYS
Dmitrij Kissler, Frank Hannig, Alexey Kupriyanov, Juergen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
 
 15:55   [1055] - A COOPERATIVE, ACCURATE SOLVING FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMAL ALLOCATION, SCHEDULING AND FREQUENCY SELECTION ON ENERGY-EFFICIENT MPSOCS
gioia pari, Martino Ruggiero, alessio guerri, luca benini, michela milano, University of Bologna - DEIS, Italy; davide bertozzi, University of Ferrara, Italy; Alexandru Andrei, ESLAB, Department of Computer and Info Science, Sweden
 
 16:15   [1057] - MODELING AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF GALS ARCHITECTURES
Sohini Dasgupta, Alex Yakovlev, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
 
 SESSION ThuPm3b: Short break
 Date: 15 November 2006
 Time: 16:35 - 16:50
 Location: Studio

 SESSION ThuPm4: MPSoC Issues
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 16:50 - 17:30
 Location: Studio

 16:50   [1007] - THE IMPACT OF COMMUNICATION ON THE SCALABILITY OF THE DATA-PARALLEL VIDEO ENCODER ON MPSOC
Erno Salminen, Tero Kangas, Timo D. Hämäläinen, TUT, Finland
 
 17:10   [1038] - FAST MULTI-DIMENSION MULTI-CHOICE KNAPSACK HEURISTIC FOR MP-SOC RUN-TIME MANAGEMENT
Chantal Ykman-Couvreur, IMEC, Belgium
 
 SESSION ThuPm5: Closing
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 17:30 - 17:40
 Location: Studio

 SESSION ThuHockey: Ice Hockey Tappara vs. Ilves
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 18:30 - 21:00
 Location: Hakametsä Ice Hall
 Sponsor(s): Mentor Graphics

 SESSION ThuDinner: Goodbye supper in Restaurant Plevna
 Date: 16 November 2006
 Time: 21:00 - 23:00
 Location: Restaurant