Welcome to the DATE 2020 Website

Holding Conferences Online due to COVID-19: The DATE Experience

The Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference and Exhibition is an annual event, scheduled in 2020 to be held March 9–13, 2020, at the Alpexpo Congress Centre in Grenoble. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the conference took place in a virtual environment, in April and May 2020.

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DATE 2020 (virtual) conference – a one of a kind DATE edition with high-quality presentations to be enjoyed by a great number of participants worldwide from home!

The DATE 2020 Conference and Exhibition was initially planned to take place in Grenoble, France from 9 to 13 March 2020. Due to the growing impact of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the Organising Committees decided to transform the physical event in Grenoble to a virtual event online – an effectful decision which received great support from speakers who contributed presentations of high-quality on short notice to make sure that if participants cannot come to DATE, DATE comes to participants.

DATE combines the world’s favourite electronic systems design and test conference with an international exhibition for electronic design, automation and test, from system-level hardware and software implementation right down to integrated circuit design. This year, the conference was held as a virtual event from April to June 2020.

The virtual event mostly followed the initially planned programme of the physical event. Solely the seven in-depth technical tutorials could not be realised via the online platform.

The virtual Opening Ceremony of DATE 2020 included the first plenary keynote lecture by Luca Benini, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), who provided his presentation on the topic of “Open Parallel Ultra-Low Power Platforms for Extreme Edge AI”.

Catherine Schuman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US) focussed her Tuesday Lunchtime Keynote on Neuromorphic Computing and allowed participants to inspect challenges in that area also in relation to challenges in systems design.

The main conference programme from Tuesday to Thursday included 58 technical sessions organized in parallel tracks from the four areas

D – Design Methods & Tools

A – Application Design

T – Test and Dependability

E – Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems

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Conference and Exhibition - 1–5 February 2021 - ALPEXPO, Grenoble, France

Call for Papers

Scope of the Event

The 24th DATE conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors as well as specialists in hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. DATE puts strong emphasis on both technology and systems, covering ICs/SoCs, emerging technologies, embedded systems and embedded software.

Structure of the Event

The five-day event consists of a conference with plenary invited papers, regular papers, panels, hot-topic sessions, tutorials, workshops, special focus days and a track for executives. The scientific conference is complemented by a commercial exhibition showing the state-of-the-art in design and test tools, methodologies, IP and design services, reconfigurable and other hardware platforms, embedded software and (industrial) design experiences from different application domains, such as automotive, wireless, telecom and multimedia applications. The organisation of user group meetings, fringe meetings, a university booth, a PhD forum, vendor presentations and social events offers a wide variety of extra opportunities to meet and exchange information on relevant issues for the design automation, design and test communities. Special space will also be allocated for EU-funded projects to show their results.

More details are available on the DATE website: www.date-conference.com.

Areas of Interest

Within the scope of the conference, the main areas of interest are: design automation, design tools and hardware architectures for electronic and embedded systems; test and dependability at system, chip, circuit and device level for analogue and digital electronics; modelling, analysis, design and deployment of embedded software and cyber-physical systems; application design and industrial design experiences.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  • System Specification and Modelling
  • System-level Design Methodologies and High-Level Synthesis
  • System Simulation and Validation
  • Formal Methods and Verification
  • Design and Test for Analogue and Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems, and MEMS
  • Design and Test of Secure Systems
  • Network on Chip and Communication-Centric Design
  • Architectural and Microarchitectural Design
  • Low-power, Energy-efficient and Thermal-aware Design
  • Approximate Computing
  • Reconfigurable Systems
  • Logical and Physical Analysis and Design
  • Emerging Design Technologies for Future Computing
  • Emerging Design Technologies for Future Memories
  • Power-efficient and Sustainable Computing
  • Robotics and Industry 4.0
  • Automotive Systems and Smart Energy Systems
  • Augmented Living and Personalized Healthcare
  • Secure Systems, Circuits and Architectures
  • Self-adaptive and Learning Systems
  • Applications of Emerging Technologies
  • Modelling and Mitigation of Defects, Faults, Variability and Reliability
  • Test Generation, Test Architectures, Design for Test, and Diagnosis
  • Microarchitecture-Level Dependability
  • System-Level Dependability
  • Real-time and Dependable Systems
  • Embedded Systems for Deep Learning
  • Model-based Design, Verification and Security for Embedded Systems
  • Embedded Software Architectures, Compilers and Tool Chains
  • Cyber-Physical Systems Design

Submission of Papers

All papers have to be submitted electronically by Monday, 14 September 2020, as abstracts and by Monday, 21 September 2020 as full papers via: www.date-conference.com

Papers can be submitted either for standard oral presentation or for interactive presentation.

The Program Committee also encourages proposals for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Friday Workshops, University Booth Demonstrations, PhD Forum and Exhibition Theatre.

Chairs

General Chair:
Franco Fummi, Università di Verona, IT
E-mail: franco [dot] fummiatunivr [dot] it (franco[dot]fummi[at]univr[dot]it)

Programme Chair:
Ian O'Connor, University of Lyon, FR
E-mail: ian [dot] oconnoratec-lyon [dot] fr (ian[dot]oconnor[at]ec-lyon[dot]fr)

Conference Organisation

c/o K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden
Bautzner Str. 117–119, 01099 Dresden, DE
Phone: +49 351 65573-137
E-mail: dateatkitdresden [dot] de (date[at]kitdresden[dot]de)

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DATE 2020 Awards

PhD Forum Best Presentation Awards
supported by EDAA, ACM Sigda & IEEE CEDA

Alireza Mahzoon, University of Bremen, DE

is awarded for the presentation

Proving Correctness of Industrial Multipliers using Symbolic Computer Algebra

 

Behnaz Pourmohseni, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU), DE

is awarded for the work

System-Level Mapping, Analysis, and Management of Real-Time Applications in Many-Core Systems

2020 EDAA Achievement Award

The 2020 EDAA Achievement Award ceremony by Norbert Wehn starts in the video below.

Luca Benini, ETHZ, Switzerland

https://www.edaa.com/press_releases/PR_achievement_2020_results.pdf

EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award 2019

The EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award 2019 ceremony by Lorena Anghel starts in the video below.

Topic 1

Eric Schneider, Ph.D

Multi-Level Simulation of Nano-Electronic Digital Circuits on GPUs

Topic 2

Fabio Passos, Ph.D.

A Multilevel Approach to the Systematic Design of Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits

Topic 3

Ahmedullah Aziz, Ph.D.

Device-Circuit Co-design Employing Phase Transition Materials for Low Power Electronics

Topic 4

Innocent Agbo, Ph.D.

Reliability Modeling and Mitigation for Embedded Memories

Topic 5 (Quantum Computing Systems):

Alwin Zulehner, Ph.D.

Design Automation for Quantum Computing

https://www.edaa.com/press_releases/EDAA_Award_2019_Results.pdf

DATE Fellow Award

The DATE Fellow Award ceremony by Norbert Wehn starts in the video below at minute 2:50.

Jürgen Teich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE

IEEE CS TTTC Outstanding Contribution Award

Jan Madsen, Technical University of Denmark, DK
Giorgio Di Natale, CNRS/TIMA, FR

DATE Best Paper Awards 2020

The Best Paper Award ceremony by Cristiana Bolchini during her opening talk video below starts at minute 2:05.

Each year the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference presents awards to the authors of the best papers. The selection is performed by the award committee composed of the Track Chairs Cristiana Bolchini, Theocharis Theocharides, Jaume Abella and Valeria Bertacco and the following members: Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Andrea Calimera, Ramon Canal, Luca Carloni, Alessandro Cimatti, Ayse Coskun, Nikil Dutt, Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, Davide Quaglia, Muhammad Shafique, Olivier Sentieys, Luis Miguel Silveira, Juergen Teich, Vasileios Tenentes, Jerzy Tyszer, Arnaud Virazel.

D Track

Impact of Magnetic Coupling and Density on STT-MRAM Performance

Lizhou Wu1, Siddharth Rao2, Mottaqiallah Taouil1, Erik Jan Marinissen2, Gouri Sankar Kar2 and Said Hamdioui1

1TU Delft, NL; 2IMEC, BE

A Track

A Flexible and Scalable NTT Hardware: Applications from Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Ahmet Can Mert1, Emre Karabulut2, Erdinc Ozturk1, Erkay Savas1, Michela Becchi2 and Aydin Aysu2

1Sabanci University, TR; 2North Carolina State University, US

T Track

DEFCON: Generating and Detecting Failure-prone Instruction Sequences via Stochastic Search

Ioannis Tsiokanos1, Lev Mukhanov1, Giorgis Georgakoudis2, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos3 and Georgios Karakonstantis1

1Queen's University Belfast, GB; 2Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US; 3Virginia Tech, US

E Track

Statistical Time-based Intrusion Detection in Embedded Systems

Nadir Carreon Rascon, Allison Gilbreath and Roman Lysecky

University of Arizona, US

Best Paper Award Nominations

D Track

Fast and Accurate DRAM Simulation: Can we Further Accelerate it?

Johannes Feldmann1; Matthias Jung2; Kira Kraft1; Lukas Steiner1; Norbert Wehn1

1TU Kaiserslautern, 2Fraunhofer IESE

ESP4ML: Platform-Based Design of Systems-on-Chip for Embedded Machine Learning

Davide Giri; Kuan-Lin Chiu; Giuseppe Di Guglielmo; Paolo Mantovani; Luca Carloni

Columbia University

Verification Runtime Analysis: Get the Most Out of Partial Verification

Martin Ring1; Fritjof Bornbebusch1; Christoph Lüth1,2; Robert Wille3; Rolf Drechsler1,2

1DFKI, 2University of Bremen, 3Johannes Kepler University Linz

Gap-free Processor Verification by S²QED and Property Generation

Keerthikumara Devarajegowda1; Mohammad Rahmani Fadiheh2; Eshan Singh3; Clark Barrett3; Subhasish Mitra3; Wolfgang Ecker1; Dominik Stoffel2; Wolfgang Kunz2

1Infineon Technologies, 2TU Kaiserslautern, 3Stanford University

GANA: Graph Convolutional Network Based Automated Netlist Annotation
for Analog Circuits

Kishor Kunal1; Tonmoy Dhar1; Meghna Madhusudan1; Jitesh Poojary1; Arvind Sharma1; Wenbin Xu2; Steven Burns3; Jiang Hu2; Ramesh Harjani1; Sachin S. Sapatnekar1

1University of Minnesota, 2Texas A&M University, 3Intel Corporation

Backtracking Search for Optimal Parameters of a PLL-based True Random Number Generator

Brice Colombier; Nathalie Bochard; Florent Bernard; Lilian Bossuet

University of Lyon

GRAMARCH: A GPU-ReRAM based Heterogeneous Architecture
for Neural Image Segmentation

Biresh Kumar Joardar1; Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi1; Jana Doppa1; Partha Pratim Pande1; Hai (Helen) Li2; Krishnendu Chakrabarty3

1Washington State University, 2Duke University/TUM-IAS, 3Duke University

PSB-RNN: A Processing-in-Memory Systolic Array Architecture
using Block Circulant Matrices for Recurrent Neural Networks

Nagadastagiri1; Sahithi Rampalli1; Makesh Tarun Chandran1; Gurpreet Singh Kalsi2; John (Jack) Sampson1; Sreenivas Subramoney2; Vijaykrishnan Narayanan1

1The Pennsylvania State University, 2Processor Architecture Research Lab, Intel Labs

A Learning-Based Thermal Simulation Framework
for Emerging Two-Phase Cooling Technologies

Zihao Yuan1; Geoffrey Vaartstra2; Prachi Shukla1; Zhengmao Lu2; Evelyn Wang2; Sherief Reda3; Ayse Coskun1

1Boston University, 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3Brown University

ProxSim: Simulation Framework for Cross-Layer Approximate DNN Optimization

Cecilia De la Parra1; Andre Guntoro1; Akash Kumar2

1Robert Bosch GmbH, 2TU Dresden

A Framework for Adding Low-Overhead, Fine-Grained Power Domains to CGRAs

Ankita Nayak; Keyi Zhang; Raj Setaluri; Alex Carsello; Makai Mann; Stephen Richardson; Rick Bahr; Pat Hanrahan; Mark Horowitz; Priyanka Raina

Stanford University

Floating Random Walk Based Capacitance Solver for VLSI Structures
with Non-Stratified Dielectrics
Mingye Song; Ming Yang; Wenjian Yu

Tsinghua University

Ternary Compute-Enabled Memory based on Ferroelectric Transistors
for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks

Sandeep Krishna Thirumala; Shubham Jain; Sumeet Gupta; Anand Raghunathan

Purdue University

Impact of Magnetic Coupling and Density on STT-MRAM Performance

Lizhou Wu1; Siddharth Rao2; Mottaqiallah Taouil1; Erik Jan Marinissen2;
Gouri Sankar Kar2; Said Hamdioui1

1Delft University of Technology, 2IMEC

A Track

GenieHD: Efficient DNA Pattern Matching Accelerator Using Hyperdimensional Computing

Yeseong Kim; Mohsen Imani; Niema Moshiri;Tajana Rosing

University of California San Diego

Achieving Determinism in Adaptive AUTOSAR

Christian Menard1; Andres Goens1; Marten Lohstroh2; Jeronimo Castrillon1

1TU Dresden, 2University of California, Berkeley

A Flexible and Scalable NTT Hardware: Applications from Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Ahmet Can Mert1; Emre Karabulut2; Erdinc Ozturk1; Erkay Savas1;
Michela Becchi2; Aydin Aysu2
1Sabanci University, 2North Carolina State University

AntiDOte: Attention-based Dynamic Optimization for Neural Network Runtime Efficiency

Fuxun Yu1; Chenchen Liu2; Di Wang3; Yanzhi Wang1; Xiang Chen1

1George Mason University, 2University of Maryland, 3Microsoft

Go Unary: A Novel Synapse Coding and Mapping Scheme
for Reliable ReRAM-based Neuromorphic Computing

Chang Ma; Yanan Sun; Weikang Qian; Ziqi Meng; Rui Yang; Li Jiang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

T Track

On Improving Fault Tolerance of Memristor Crossbar Based Neural Network Designs
by Target Sparsifying

Song Jin1; Songwei Pei2; Yu Wang1

1North China Electric Power University,
2Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Reconfigurable Scan Networks

Sebastian Brandhofer; Michael Kochte; Hans-Joachim Wunderlich

University of Stuttgart

DEFCON: Generating and Detecting Failure-prone Instruction Sequences
via Stochastic Search

Ioannis Tsiokanos1; Lev Mukhanov2; Giorgis Georgakoudis3;
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos4; Georgios Karakonstantis1

1Queen's University Belfast, 2QUB, 3Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4Virginia Tech

Thermal-Cycling-aware Dynamic Reliability Management in Many-Core System-on-Chip

Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan1; Antonio Miele2; Zhuo Zou3;
Hannu Tenhunen1; Juha Plosila1

1University of Turku, 2Politecnico di Milano,
3Nanjing University of Computer Science and Technology

E Track

Deeper Weight Pruning without Accuracy Loss in Deep Neural Networks

Byungmin Ahn; Taewhan Kim

Seoul National University

ACOUSTIC: Accelerating Convolutional Neural Networks
through Or-Unipolar Skipped Stochastic Computing

Wojciech Romaszkan; Tianmu Li; Tristan Melton; Sudhakar Pamarti; Puneet Gupta

University of California Los Angeles

Statistical Time-based Intrusion Detection in Embedded Systems

Nadir Carreon Rascon; Allison Gilbreath; Roman Lysecky

University of Arizona

Energy-efficient runtime resource management for adaptable multi-application mapping

Robert Khasanov; Jeronimo Castrillon

TU Dresden

CPS-oriented Modeling and Control of Traffic Signals Using Adaptive Back Pressure

Wanli Chang1; Debayan Roy2; Shuai Zhao1; Anuradha Annaswamy3; Samarjit Chakraborty2

1University of York, 2Technical University of Munich,

3Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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DATE 2020 virtual conference now online

***Update May 2020: The virtual conference platform deadline is extended to 30 June 2020.***

For the last weeks, the DATE Committees have been working intensively to transform DATE 2020 into a virtual conference. More than 400 presentations were submitted. Again, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to all presenters for their contributions, despite the demanding situation worldwide, as well as participants for their patience. We would also like to thank all exhibitors and sponsors for their ongoing support.

We are glad to announce that the virtual conference has now been launched and can be accessed via www.date-conference-virtual.com.

All participants received an invitiation link to generate their personal log-in data via e-mail this morning.

Once you created your log-in you can view the virtual conference in accordance with your initial conference registration.

The platform will remain open until 31 May 2020 to ensure that you will be able to view the fascinating presentations.

If you have any questions regarding the virtual conference, please do not hesitate to contact the DATE Conference Registration under date-registrationatkitdresden [dot] de (date-registration[at]kitdresden[dot]de)!

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DATE 2020 in Grenoble replaced by a virtual conference that will be scheduled in the coming weeks

***Update 14 April 2020: The virtual conference platform will be launched shortly. Participants may expect further information as well as access data via e-mail in the course of the week.***

The Corona virus (COVID-19) is affecting the plans of many people who made arrangements to attend DATE 2020 in Grenoble. The DATE organizers have carefully been watching the situation over the past weeks, with full attention for the health and safety of all presenters, exhibitors and attendees, and have explored all options to maintain the event as planned. The current situation with increasing travel restrictions and cancellations, however, no longer makes it possible to guarantee the program and the quality expected from DATE.

Therefore, it has been decided to organize DATE 2020 as a virtual event in the coming weeks instead of the physical event that was planned in Grenoble from March 9 to 13, 2020.

To implement this, the following actions will be taken:

  1. A virtual conference environment will be set up to allow authors of accepted papers (long/short regular presentations, Interactive Presentations, Special Session presentations), as well as Exhibition Theatre and PhD Forum presenters who want to, to present their work in a virtual way;
  2. All papers presented in the virtual conference will be published in IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Library;
  3. A virtual market environment will be set up for the exhibitors;

All registered attendees will receive more information through e-mail in the next few days.

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University Booth Programme

The virtual University Booth of DATE 2020 is available here.

The University Booth is organised during DATE and will be located in the exhibition area at booth 11. All demonstrations will take place from Tuesday, March 10 to Thursday, March 12, 2020 during DATE. Universities and public research institutes have been invited to submit hardware or software demonstrators.

The University Booth programme is composed of 42 demonstrations from 11 countries, presenting software and hardware solutions. The programme is organised in 11 sessions of 2 or 2.5 h duration and will cover the topics:

  • Electronic Design Automation Prototypes
  • Hardware Design and Test Prototypes
  • Embedded Systems Design

The University Booth at DATE 2020 invites you to find out more about the latest trends in software and hardware from the international research community.

Most demonstrators will be shown more than once, giving visitors more flexibility to come to the booth and find out about the latest innovations.

We are sure that the demonstrators will give an attractive supplement to the DATE conference program and exhibition. We would like to thank all contributors to this programme.

More information is available online at https://www.date-conference.com/exhibition/university-booth. The University Booth programme is included in the conference booklet and available online at https://www.date-conference.com/exhibition/university-booth/programme. The following demonstrators will be presented at the University Booth.

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Authors' Guidelines for Audio-Visual Presentation

This page describes the guidelines to prepare and present audio-visual materials at DATE. Please read all instructions carefully and follow them strictly to maintain the highest possible standards. Even experienced speakers should read the following paragraphs, as they cover several problems that have arisen over the years.

General Instructions for …

… Oral Presentations

Presentation Submission

DATE will provide a centralised presentation management system for all speakers of the main conference. You will not be allowed to use your own laptop for presentation on-site – no exceptions.

To enable the A/V staff to handle the technical aspects in an efficient way, all presentations should be prepared according to the "General Instructions for Preparing A/V Material". It is essential that the correct format is used.

Please bring your presentation file with you (CD/DVD/Memory Stick) to the conference and submit it to the presentations server at the A/V Office.

Before the conference, you can upload your presentation by using the web-based upload service at https://date.t-e-m.de. The correct file name is set automatically by the server. The access data for the upload service will be sent to the main contributing author in due time. The upload service will close on 25 February 2020, 23:59:59 CET.

At the Conference

Preview computer systems, identical in software and hardware to the ones used for presentation, will be available in the Audio/Video Office at the conference. This room can be used during below-mentioned times of the DATE 2020 week for presentation concerns. Since this facility will be shared between multiple presenters, its use can be limited.

Monday 1300 – 1900
Tuesday 0730 – 1900
Wednesday 0730 – 1800
Thursday 0730 – 1730

All presenters are required to meet with the local conference Audio/Video staff at least two hours before the beginning of their session to check their presentation at one of the conference computers. However, it is strongly recommended to do so the day before the session if possible.

The facilities at the A/V Office will provide the possibility of:

  • uploading the presentations to the server
  • reviewing the presentations on Windows-based computers
  • last minute alterations of the presentations
  • support by technical staff

Please submit your presentation to the A/V Office via one of the following media:

  • CD ROM (CD-R/RW), DVD-ROM (DVD-R/RW)
  • USB memory stick

Save all files associated with your presentation (PowerPoint file, movie/video files etc.) to one folder/location. We recommend to save videos and graphics and pictures separately on your storage medium. In case of problems, we can re-insert the originals.

In the event that you have more than one presentation during the conference, save the different presentations in different folders and name them clearly to avoid any on-site misunderstandings and problems.

Always make a backup copy of your presentations and all associated files and save them on a separate portable medium by yourself.

Conference staff will transfer your presentation from the A/V Office to the corresponding session rooms. You will easily find your presentation on the laptop installed at the lectern in your session room.

Each session room is equipped with:

  • Video projector
  • Lectern with microphone
  • Laptop with operating system Windows 10 (English)
  • presenter with laser pointer and slideshow remote control

You can control/move slides during your presentation on your own (by remote control – please kindly check this in the Speaker Preview Room in advance).

Kindly be at the session room at least 20 minutes before the session starts to meet the chair and familiarise yourself with the technical and other equipment.

Using your own laptop for presentation is not possible.

During your presentation you should keep in mind your time limit. The session moderator will stop your presentation if it takes more than your allocated time slot.

Speaker’s Breakfast

There will be a speaker’s breakfast in the morning of your presentation. It will be located in the ground level of the Alpes Congrès Building, and it will start at 7:30 a.m. Attending the speaker's breakfast at the morning of your presentation is mandatory in order to get all final instructions. A sign with the session number will point to your table.

… Preparing A/V Material

When preparing your AV material, keep the time limit for your presentation in mind. To make your visual presentation a success, it needs to be well planned to clearly point out the important results of your research. The audience will appreciate your talk only if your material is visible and legible. They will remember your talk far better and read your paper if you can manage to communicate at least two important facts within your presentation timeslot. Please consider that the audience will need at least a minute to understand each technical slide.

The first slide should contain the title of your paper and the author names, your affiliations and your company, university or funding logo (if applicable). This will be the only page where logos are permitted.

Keep your material simple and uncluttered. Program listings and very long equations should be avoided. Tables should be represented graphically, wherever possible. Do not use the valuable space on your slides for large company logos and other elements that do not help in motivation or understanding your work. Duplicates of slides should only be produced in case the same information is needed twice.

Presentation Format

Please use Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2016 (*.ppt/*pptx), OpenOffice / LibreOffice 1.0 – 6.0, PREZI or Adobe PDF to guarantee your presentation will open successfully on an on-site PC.

All slides must use landscape format with 16:9 aspect ratio.

Please limit the file size to less than 25 MB (except video content) to minimise problems with storage and access speed that can result in a distorted or incomplete presentation.

To speed up your start, we provide a PowerPoint template presentation. You are encouraged to use this template to prepare your presentation. Press here to download the PowerPoint file.

Mac users: please convert your file to PowerPoint format or PDF before you leave for the conference. Be aware that PowerPoint Mac-to-PC conversions can lead to unexpected results, especially with fonts, certain formats of embedded graphics, and special characters (ASCII characters 128 to 255). To avoid questions of PowerPoint compatibility, please embed all used fonts, convert them to vectors or use only compatible fonts (e. g. Arial, Courier New, Lucida Sans, Times New Roman, Verdana).

Pictures and Videos

Because of the many different video formats, support cannot be provided for embedded videos in your presentation; please test your presentation with the on-site PC several hours before your presentation. Generally, the WMV and MPEG-4 format should work without difficulties.

Movies or videos that require additional reading or projection equipment (e.g. VHS cassettes, Video-DVDs) will not be accepted.

Audio is supported.

Fonts

Only fonts which are included in the basic installation of MS-Windows 10 will be available. Use of other fonts not included in Windows can cause a wrong layout/style of your presentation (Suggested fonts: Arial, Tahoma). If you use different fonts, these must be embedded into your presentation.

Please use high contrast lettering and fonts with a minimum size of 16 pt and high contrast layouts like light text on dark colours.

Please make sure that also index expressions are clearly visible and use an appropriate font size.

Colours

Colour should be used carefully and colour combinations resulting in a low contrast (e.g. dark blue on black) should be avoided. Be aware that the contrast of your computer monitor is much higher than that of a projector in a partly lit room

Try to use only colours that convert for black and white printing. The distinction between blue and black for text and thin lines is especially weak. Red filled-in objects (circles, rectangles, etc.) with white text are well-suited for highlighting important text.

Further Instructions for…

… Session Chairs and Co-Chairs

Quick Checklist

  • If needed, get a PowerPoint template here.
  • At least two hours before your session, contact the Audio/Video Office staff to check that all your session presentations have been uploaded. If you have introductory slides, please also contact the A/V staff.
  • Attend Speaker’s Breakfast the morning of your session at 7:30 a.m.
  • Please, check presence of all speakers 10 minutes before your session starts, at the latest.
  • After your session, please fill in the session evaluation form and return it to the conference registration desk.

Session Chairs

The main task of a session chair is to run the session. All speakers have been advised to get in contact with you before the session – please check that all of them are present before your session starts. If one of the speakers is missing, leave the presentation slot empty to be on schedule. Within your session, please introduce the speakers and keep track of the time limits (indicate to the speaker when it is time to stop). Please also manage the question and answer procedure after each talk (long dialogues have to be done off-line). If there are Interactive Presentations assigned to your session, please provide a one-minute time slot to each of them at the end of the session. After your session, please fill in the session evaluation form and return it to the conference registration desk.

Session Co-Chairs

The main task of a session co-chair is to support the session moderator and to handle unexpected situations. Please estimate the number of attendees (required for the evaluation form). You are requested to handle unexpected noise (talk to security people), A/V problems (talk to A/V people / technicians) and look for missing speakers. Please replace the missing session chair in case he is not present due to unexpected circumstances.

For further information, please have a look at the guidelines for your appropriate session below.

… Organisers of Executive and Panel Sessions

Quick Checklist

  • Carefully read the information provided in the "General Instructions for Oral Presentations" and "General Instructions for Preparing A/V Material"
  • If needed, get a PowerPoint template here.
  • Collect all your session’s presentations where applicable and upload them via https://date.t-e-m.de until 25 February 2020, 23:59:59 CET.
    The access data for the upload service will be sent to the Organisers of Special Session in due time.
  • At least two hours before your session, visit the Audio/Video Office to check/submit all your session’s presentations.
  • Attend Speaker’s Breakfast the morning of your session at 7:30 a.m.

If you are also the chair or co-chair of your session, please have a look at the "Further Instructions for Session Chairs and Co-Chairs".

… Speakers in Executive and Panel Sessions

Quick Checklist

  • Carefully read the information provided in the "General Instructions for Oral Presentations" and "General Instructions for Preparing A/V Material"
  • If needed, get a PowerPoint template here and prepare your slides according to the above-mentioned guidelines.
  • Send your presentation to the session organiser. Your session organiser is responsible for uploading your presentation to the conference server in time. Please contact her/him for instructions.
  • At least two hours before your session, visit the Audio/Video Office to check your presentation.
  • Attend Speaker’s Breakfast the morning of your presentation at 7:30 a.m. and bring your filled Speaker's Bio
  • 20 minutes before your session, contact the session chair to confirm your presence.
… Speakers in Regular, Embedded Tutorial and Hot-Topic Sessions (Long and Short Presentations)

Quick Checklist

  • Carefully read the information provided in the "General Instructions for Oral Presentations" and "General Instructions for Preparing A/V Material"
  • If needed, get a PowerPoint template here and prepare your slides according to the above-mentioned guidelines.
  • Upload your presentation via https://date.t-e-m.de until 25 February 2020, 23:59:59 CET.
    The access data for the upload service will be sent to the main contributing author in due time.
  • At least two hours before your session, visit the Audio/Video Office to check your presentation.
  • Attend Speaker’s Breakfast the morning of your presentation at 7:30 a.m. and bring your filled Speaker's Bio
  • 20 minutes before your session, contact the session chair to confirm your presence.

Presentation timeslots

The presentation timeslot is 25+5 minutes for long and 13+2 minutes for short presentations, including the +time for questions. Please consider that the audience will need at least a minute to understand each technical slide. Therefore, you should prepare 15 to 20 slides for long and 10 to 15 slides for short presentations.

… Authors of Interactive Presentations

Quick Checklist

  • Carefully read the information provided in the "General Instructions for Oral Presentations" and "General Instructions for Preparing A/V Material"
  • If needed, get a PowerPoint template here and prepare your two advertisement slides according to the above-mentioned guidelines.
  • Prepare your poster according to the below-mentioned guidelines.
  • Upload your 2-slide-presentation via https://date.t-e-m.de until 25 February 2020, 23:59:59 CET.
    The access data for the upload service will be sent to the main contributing author in due time.
  • At least two hours before your advertisement session, visit the Audio/Video Office to check your presentation.
  • 20 minutes before your advertisement session, contact the session chair to confirm your presence.
  • 15 minutes before your IP session: please mount your poster and stay in the IP session area
  • 60 minutes before the next IP session: please get sure to remove your poster, otherwise it will be disposed.

Advertisement talk

IP authors have two time slots for presentation. One first time slot is scheduled at the end of a regular session for a short advertisement of the poster presentation being scheduled in the following IP session. The timeslot for your advertisement presentation is only one minute. You are allowed to show at most two slides (cover page included).

Poster Presentation

The second time slot is characterised by an oral explanation given to interested audience during the interactive presentation sessions. Each IP session runs on a 30 minutes’ timeslot and will be supported by a compulsory poster according to the guidelines indicated below. Therefore, please be in the IP area at least 15 minutes before the session starts to correctly mount the poster. Please also take care of removing it at latest 60 minutes before the next IP session. Posters from previous sessions will be removed and disposed. You do not have to prepare presentation slides for this time slot as there will be no table or power socket nearby the poster wall.

Finally, remember that the best IP award selection committee will check the quality of the presentation and of the answers during the IP sessions to make its decision.

IP authors are kindly asked to prepare posters in DIN A0 portrait format (841x1189 mm / 33.11x46.81 in) and bring the printed poster to the conference. There is no poster printing service on-site. The poster will be exhibited in the IP session area on the poster walls labelled with the corresponding IP number. Blu-Tack/Pins will be provided. Posters made as mosaic of A4 or letter papers are discouraged.

… Speakers in Exhibition Theatre Sessions

Quick Checklist

  • Carefully read the information provided in the "General Instructions for Oral Presentations" and "General Instructions for Preparing A/V Material"
  • If needed, get a PowerPoint template here and prepare your slides according to the above-mentioned guidelines.
  • Upload your presentation via https://date.t-e-m.de until 25 February 2020, 23:59:59 CET.
    The access data for the upload service will be sent to the main contributing author in due time.
  • At least two hours before your session, visit the Audio/Video Office to check your presentation.
  • Attend Speaker’s Breakfast the morning of your presentation at 7:30 a.m. and bring your filled Speaker's Bio
  • 20 minutes before your session, contact the session chair to confirm your presence.
… Authors of Monday Tutorial Presentations

The centralised presentation management system will NOT be used for Monday Tutorials and presentations will be handled individually by each Tutorial Organiser. Please contact your Tutorial Organiser to get information on the organisation of your presentation.

… Authors of Friday Workshop Presentations

The centralised presentation management system will NOT be used for Friday Workshops and presentations will be handled individually by each Workshop Organiser. Please contact your Workshop Organiser to get information on the organisation of your presentation.

For more information please contact:

Conference Organization - Conference Manager
Eva Smejkal, K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden, DE
dateatkitdresden [dot] de (date[at]kitdresden[dot]de)
phone: +49 351 65573-133
fax: +49 351 65573-299

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Advance Conference Programme

DATE 2020 Advance Programme for download

Keynotes: https://www.date-conference.com/keynotes

Monday Tutorials: https://www.date-conference.com/conference/monday-tutorials

PhD Forum: https://www.date-conference.com/fringe-meeting-fm01

Conference Programme: https://www.date-conference.com/programme

Special Days, Executive & Special Sessions: https://www.date-conference.com/special

Exhibition Theatre: https://www.date-conference.com/exhibition/exhibition-theatre

Friday Workshops: https://www.date-conference.com/conference/friday-workshops

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DATE 2020 in Grenoble: Highlighting Embedded AI and Silicon Photonics

For the 23rd year in a row, DATE has prepared an exciting technical programme. With the help of the 328 members of the Technical Programme Committee, who carried out 3014 reviews (mostly four reviews per submission), 196 papers (26%) were finally selected for regular presentation and 82 additional ones (cumulatively 37%, including all papers) for interactive presentation.

DATE 2020 programme will include five keynote talks. Two visionary talks will be given during the opening ceremony: one from Philippe Magarshack, Corporate Vice President at ST Microelectronics, and one from Luca Benini, chair of digital Circuits and Systems at ETH Zurich and Professor at University of Bologna. Moreover, three luncheon keynotes will inspire the attendees: on Tuesday, Catherine Schumann from Oak Ridge National Laboratory will talk about neuromorphic computing; on Wednesday, Jim Tung will present Mathworks’ vision on how to leverage Embedded Intelligence in Industry; on Thursday, Joachim Schultze from DZNE will talk about bottlenecks and challenges for HPC in medicinal and genomics research.

The conference programme includes several executive and hot-topic sessions, addressing Memories for Emerging Applications, Architectures for Emerging Technologies (Quantum Computing, Edge Computing, Neural Algorithms, In-Memory Computing, Bio-Inspired Adaptive Hardware), Hardware Security, 3D Integration and Logic Reasoning for Functional ECO.

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