TRIP REPORTS A REPORT ON ICCAD '93 Yachyang S u n Department of Computer Science University of minois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 The International Conference on Computer-Aided Design was held at the Conventional Center at Santa Clara, California, from November 7th to November llth. There were 129 papers presented in 43 sessions over the three day period. A new format was adopted with four parallel sessions and I found the conference excellently organized. I presented the paper titled "Routing for symmetric FPGAs and FPICs" (co-authored by Dr. T.C. Wang, Dr. C.K. Wong, and Professor C.L. Liu). In the presentation, I proposed a new FPGA/FPIC routing architecture in which the number of active programmable switches can be reduced substantially, compared with the original two-dimensional FPGA/FPIC routing architecture. We also gave an overview of our approach for the routing problem in this new routing architecture. Thanks goes to the conference participants for their valuable feedback on my work. This has provided me with better insight in the requirements and concerns of the physical design community for the FPGA/FPIC technology. In other paper presentations, the paper authored by Kai Zhu, D.F. Wong, and and YaoWen Chang was the most impressive one to me. The paper addresses the problem of designing switch modules for FPGAs and FPICs to maximize routabil~ty under area and delay constraints. I was very pleased to know that their work can be incorperated in our proposed new routing architecture to increase the routability and make it more efficient. Overall my attendance at the conference has been a rewarding experience. I would like to thank the conference organizers for a job well done and the SIGDA Travel Grant Committee for providing me with a travel grant which made my attendance at the ICCAD '93 possible. SIGDA Newsletter, vol 23, number 3
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