1. ASP-DAC 2015 Report
Kunio Uchiyama
General Chair

2. ASP-DAC 2015 Date… January 19 (Monday)- 22 (Thursday)
Place… Makuhari Messe
History… 20th event of the ASP-DAC series
13th ASP-DAC, Seoul, Korea (2008)
14th ASP-DAC, Yokohama, Japan (2009)
15th ASP-DAC, Taipei, Taiwan (2010)
16th ASP-DAC, Yokohama, Japan (2011)
17th ASP-DAC, Sydney, Australia (2012)
18th ASP-DAC, Yokohama, Japan (2013)
19th ASP-DAC, Singapore (2014)

3. Session Organization Three keynotes Regular Sessions Special Sessions
Invited Talks, 5 Sessions
Designers’ Forum
Invited Talks, 2 Sessions
Panel Discussions, 2 Sessions
University LSI Design Contest
Short Talks & Poster Exhibition, 2 Sessions
Tutorials
6 two-hour tutorials
Student Research Forum by ACM SIGDA
Luncheon Lectures by IEEE CASS/CEDA

4. Attendees as of Jan. 22, 2015 Total Number: 433 (462 in 2013)
Strong attendance from academia
Academia: 293 including 107 students) ( 315 including 144 students) )
Industries: 140 (147)
International participation
Japan: 235 (287)
Overseas: 198 (175)
ASP 130 (101)
NA 40 (43)
EU 26 (30)
Mid-East 2 (1)

5. Attendees as of Jan. 22, 2015
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Host Country
304
117
280 36
287 31
235
ASP(except host country)
105
155
128
151
101
147
130 NA 64 66 61 48 43 51 40 EU 18 29 22 24 41 28
Sub-Total
490
367
491
259
462
270
433

6. Attendees Tutorial
Thanks to Tutorial Chairs, tutorial reaches a high level of attendees
Tutorial format
2-hour, twice a day
Options to select 3 out of 6 topics
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
#Registrants
113
216
111 42
106 65 78

7. Keynote Address I. II. III.
“The required technologies for Automotive towards 2020”
Udo Wolz
　　Executive Vice President and Director for 　　Engineering and Innovation, Bosch Corporation
II.
“Programmable Network”
Atsushi Takahara
　　Director of NTT Network Innovation Laboratories
III.
“When and how will an AI be smart enough to design?”
Noriko Arai
　　Professor of Information and Society Research
　　Division, National Institute of Informatics

8. Designers’ Forum 2 oral sessions Session 5S: “Car Electronics”
Systems Modeling for Additional Development in Automotive E/E Architecture
Implementation and Evaluation of Image Recognition Algorithm for An Intelligent Vehicle using Heterogeneous Multi-Core SoC
Trend in Power Devices for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Session 8S: “Technology Trend toward 8K Era”
The Prospects of Next Generation Television - Japan's Initiative to 2020
8K LCD : Technologies and challenges toward the realization of SUPER Hi-VISION TV
The world's 1st Complete-4K SoC Solution with Hybrid Memory System
H.265/HEVC Encoder for UHDTV
2 panel discussions
Session 6S: “Challenges in the Era of Big-Data Computing”
Session 9S: “IP base SoC design and IP design innovation”

9. University LSI Design Contest
23 excellent designs are accepted out of 30 submissions from five countries/areas
Two awards were given at the opening
Oral Presentations (Session 1S) were scheduled after Keynote I
Then, Poster Presentations were held with snacks during lunch time

10. University LSI Design Contest - Impression
Paper levels were high.
Submissions to this year’s ASP-DAC were from 4 countries/areas in Asia: Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan, and 1 from Europe: Greece.
UDC at ASP-DAC is established as a high-level design contest for Asian universities.

11. Tutorial On-Site Report
M. Ikeda (University of Tokyo)
T. Isshiki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

12. Outlook
6 tutorials (2-hour intense introductions repeated twice) were organized.
There were no major troubles.

13. Themes and number of attendees
Organizer
#Attnd
Total T1
FDSOI
Andreia Cathelin 10 19 9 T2
Lithography and TCAD
Shigeki Nojima 13 18 5 T3
Normally-Off Computing
Hiroshi Nakamura/
Takashi Nakada 15 27 12 T4
Hardware Trust
Kazuo Sakiyama /
Makoto Nagata 25 37 T5
High-Level Synthesis for FPGAs
Jason Anderson 29 36 7 T6
EDA for Nanotechnologies
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon /
Giovanni De Micheli 20 45

14. Feedback Summary T1 10 10 (38%) 11 (42%) 5 (19%) 0 (0%) 2.19 9 T2 13
# of Attendees
Excellent (3)
Good (2)
Fair (1)
Poor (0)
average T1
FDSOI 10
10 (38%)
11 (42%)
5 (19%)
0 (0%)
2.19 9 T2
Lithography and TCAD 13
7 (44%)
9 (56%)
2.44 5 T3
Normally-Off Computing 15
7 (28%)
10 (40%)
8 (32%)
1.96 12 T4
Hardware Trust 25
29 (45%)
30 (47%)
5 (8%)
2.38 T5
High-Level Synthesis for FPGAs 29
17 (53%)
13 (41%)
2 (6%)
2.47 7 T6
EDA for Nanotechnologies 20
18 (35%)
26 (51%)
5 (10%)
2 (4%)
2.18
Total
182
41%
46%
12% 1%
2.28

15. Miscellaneous Electronic version of textbook worked good.
139 downloads from 75 sites (almost all the attendee?? )
Download site had closed soon after the tutorial
All the arrangements were perfect, including rooms, AV equipment (including PCs), coffee break, etc.
Inquiry collection should be the issue
1-Inquiry sheet per session and collect when people go out during break
Need stronger call for participation

16. Student Research Forum
Tuesday at 6pm
Please join and encourage forum presenters
Yiran Chen
Chair
University of Pittsburgh
Yasuhiro Takashima
Co-chair
University of Kitakyushu
Supported by ACM SIGDA
and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

17. Student Research Forum
Review Committee Members
YuKo Hara-Azumi Tsung-Yi Ho Jingtong Hu
Yuzi Kanazawa Yukihide Kohira Xin Li
Ting Li Duo Liu Koji Maeda
Akihiko Miyazaki Shinobu Nagayama Yoshinori Okajima
Qinru Qiu Zili Shao Muhammad Shafique
Yiyu Shi Seiya Shibata Chun-Yao Wang
Hai Wang Yu Wang Shu Xu
Chun (Jason) Xue Haibo Zeng Qi Zhu

18. Student Research Forum
24 excellent posters were accepted out of 38 submissions from nine countries/areas
18:00-20:00, January 20 @ Room 201
Food will be served
Three awards will be selected
Best Poster – Research
Best Poster – Presentation
Most Popular Poster

19. IEEE CASS/CEDA Joint Seminar
Lecture 1: Prof. David Z. Pan (The University of Texas at Austin)
Lecture 2: Prof. Yao-Wen Chang (Award Recipient, TPC chairs of ASP-DAC, etc.)
2015 January 22 (Thu) 12:30-13:30 General Purpose Room
Sponsored by IEEE CASS Japan/Fukuoka/Kansai/Shikoku Chapters IEEE CEDA All Japan Joint Chapter

20. Sponsor IEEE CASS ACM SIGDA IEEE CEDA
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Information Processing Society of Japan

21. Supporter JEITA EDA Technical Committee
Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center
The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation
Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation
Chiba Convention Bureau and International Center
Chiba Prefecture
Chiba City

22. Company's Exhibition Cadence Design Systems, Japan NEC Corporation
Open Processor Foundation
NEC Corporation
Cadence Design Systems, Japan
ZUKEN Inc.
TOPPAN PRINTING CO.,LTD.
Springer
TOOL Corp.
JEITA EDA Technical Committee