IWLS 2013 Program


Friday June 7, 2013


8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast and Conference Opening


8:45am - 9:45am : Keynote I
David Pan University of Texas, Austin


10:00am - 11:30am : Session 1 - Formal Methods and Applications I
A Circuit Approach to LTL Model Checking
Koen Claessen Chalmers University of Technology, Niklas Een and Baruch Sterin University of California, Berkeley
k-Liveness With Disjunctive Stabilization : A Communication Fabric Case Study
Sayak Ray and Robert Brayton University of California, Berkeley
QF_BV Property Directed Reachability with Mixed Type Atomic Reasoning Units
Tobias Welp and Andreas Kuehlmann University of California, Berkeley


11:30pm - 12:30pm : Lunch


12:30pm - 1:30pm : Special Session - Reconfigurable Computing
Karel Bruneel Ghent University, Belgium
Steve Wallach Convey Computer Corporation


1:45pm - 3:15pm : Session 2 - Logic Synthesis and Optimization I
Faster Logic Manipulation for Large Designs
Alan Mishchenko and Robert Brayton University of California, Berkeley
Fast Boolean Matching for Small Practical Functions
Zheng Huang, Lingli Wang Fudan University, Yakov Nasikovskiy California State University, Dominguez Hills and Alan Mishchenko University of California, Berkeley
Threshold Logic Synthesis Using Functional Composition Paradigm
Augusto Silva, Mayler Martins, Renato Ribas and Andre Reis Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul


3:30pm - 5:00pm : Session 3 - Test, Verification and Reliability
Online and Operand-Aware Detection of Failures by Utilizing False Alarm Vectors
Amir Yazdanbakhsh, David Palframan, Azadeh Davoodi, Nam Sung Kim and Mikko Lipasti University of Wisconsin, Madison
Automatic Test Pattern Generation for Delay Defects Using Timed Characteristic Functions
Shin-Yann Ho, Shuo-Ren Lin, Ko-Lung Yuan, Chien-Yen Kuo, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang and Chien-Mo Li National Taiwan University
ArChIVED: High Performance Validation of Microprocessors Using Event Digests
Chang-Hong Hsu, Debapriya Chatterjee University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ronny Morad, Raviv Gal IBM Research Lab and Valeria Bertacco University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


6:00pm : Dinner


Saturday June 8, 2013


8:00am - 8:45am : Breakfast


8:45am - 9:45am : Keynote II
Session Chair: Dirk Stroobandt
Chuck Alpert IBM Research


10:00am - 11:30am : Session 4 - Formal Methods and Applications II
A Toolbox for Counter-Example Analysis and Optimization
Alan Mishchenko, Niklas Een and Robert Brayton University of California, Berkeley
Enhancing Iterative Layering with SAT Solvers
Ana Petkovska, David Novo, Ajay Kumar Verma EPFL, Alan Mishchenko University of California, Berkely and Paolo Ienne EPFL
Word-Level Abstraction from Bit-Level Circuits using Groebner Bases
Tim Pruss, Priyank Kalla University of Utah and Florian Enescu Georgia State University


11:30am - 12:30pm : Lunch


12:30pm - 2:00pm : Session 5 - Stochastic and Trusted Computing
Session Chair: Michael Orshansky
Sequential Logic to Transform Probabilities
Naman Saraf and Kia Bazargan University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Autocorrelation Study for Finite-State Machine-based Stochastic Computing Elements
Cong Ma, Peng Li and David J. Lilja University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Designing Trusted Circuits from Finite State Machines
Carson Dunbar and Gang Qu University of Maryland, College Park


2.15pm - 3.15pm : Session 6 - Logic Synthesis and Optimization II
A new method for factoring read-polarity-once Boolean functions
Vinicius Callegaro, Mayler Martins, Renato Ribas and Andre ReisFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul
A Structural Algorithm to Minimize Switch Count in CMOS Logic Gates
Vinicius Possani Federal University of Pelotas, Vinicius Callegaro, André Reis, Renato Ribas Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Felipe Marques and Leomar Da Rosa Junior Federal University of Pelotas


3:30pm - 4:30pm : Session 7 - Index Generation Functions
An Efficient Implementation of The Index Generation Functions
Yusuke Matsunaga Kyushu University
Cyclic Row-Shift Decompositions for Incompletely Specified Index Generation Functions
Tsutomu Sasao Meiji University


4.30pm - 5.00pm : Closing Remarks