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International Design and Test Workshop
IDT 2007
Cairo, December 16-18, 2007
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Important Dates

Submission Deadline:

October 15th, 2007

Acceptance Letter:

October 30th, 2007

Final Version:

November 16th, 2007

Workshop Program

Sunday Dec 16th, 2007

09:00-10:00    Registration

 

10:00-10:15    Opening Session

 

Welcome Address

Conference Co-Chairs:

Hazem ElTahawy, Mentor Graphics, Egypt

Yervant Zorian, Virage Logic, USA  

 

Program Committee Report

Program Co-Chairs:

Ashraf Salem, Mentor Graphics, Egypt

Andre Ivanov, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

 

 

10:15-10:30    Honorary Speech

 

H.E. Dr. Tarek Kamel

Minister of Communication and Information Technology  

 

10:30-11:30    Conference Keynote Speech

Finding 10 X Changes in Design

Dr. Walden C. Rhines, CEO, Mentor Graphics, USA

 

11:30-12:00    Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:00      Poster Session

Chair: Watheq El-Kharashi, Ain Shams University, Egypt

 

Power Grid Automatic Metal Filling Algorithm Forming Maximum on-chip Decoupling Capacitance
Mohamed Said (Mentor Graphics- Egypt), Mohamed Dessouky (Mentor Graphics - Egypt), Amro Tork (Mentor Graphics - Egypt)

 

Measurement Environment for Reliability Study of High Current First Level Interconnections
Zdenek Barton (CEDO Ltd. - Czech Republic), Jiri Horky (CEDO Ltd. - Czech Republic), Radoslav Duda (CEDO Ltd. - Czech Republic), Ivan Szendiuch (Brno University of Technology - Czech Republic), Marek Novotny (Brno University of Technology - Czech Republic), Dorine Gevaert (Brno University of Technology - Czech Republic)

 

An FPGA-Based Architecture for ECC Point Multiplication
Doaa Nassar (Mentor Graphics - Egypt), Mohamed W. EL-Kharashi (Ain Shams University)

 

Proxels for Reliability Assessment of Future Nano-Circuits
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar (UAE University - United Arab Emirates), Valeriu Beiu (UAE University - College of IT - United Arab Emirates), Walid Ibrahim (UAE University - United Arab Emirates)

 

Accelerating Matrix Multiplication on FPGAs
Mohamed Dessouky (Mentor Graphics - Egypt), Rasha EL-Atfy* (Mentor Graphics - Egypt), Hassan EL-Ghitani (Misr International University - Egypt)

 

Modeling Burst Interferences-A Practical Tool for Studying Leak Signals
Marllene DanetI ("Politehnica"University of Timisoara - Romania)

 

12:00-13:30    Panel Sessions

Electronics Design Industry in The Middle East: It is a fancy or a way to grow

Moderator: Hazem El Tahawy, Mentor Graphics, Egypt

 

Panelists:

Walden Rhines, Mentor Graphics, USA

Magdy Abadir, Freescale, USA

Yervant Zorian, Virage Logic, USA  

Ashraf Badawi, Intel, UK

Hisham Haddara, Si-Ware Systems, Egypt

Khaled Ismail, Sysdisoft, Egypt      

 

13:30-14:30       Lunch

 

14:30-15:30       Panel Session

Developing Standard Automotive eSW Drivers

Moderator: Hisham Soultan, IBM, Egypt

 

Panelists:

Saffey El-Din Khalil, IBM Egypt

Mohamed Madbouly, IBM Egypt

Amr El-Dessouky, IBM Egypt

 

15:30-17:00       Session 1: Memory Test, On-Line Testing & Test Generation

                          Chair: John Hayes, University of Michigan, USA  

          Ayman Wahba, Ain Shams University, Egypt

 

Precise Identification of Memory Faults Using Electrical Simulation
Zaid Al-Ars (Delft University of Technology - Netherlands), Said Hamdioui (Delft University of Technology - Netherlands), Georgi Gaydadjiev (TU Delft - Netherlands)

 

An Investigation on Capacitive Coupling in RAM Address Decoders
Said Hamdioui (Delft University of Technology - Netherlands), Zaid Al-Ars (Delft University of Technology - Netherlands), Georgi Gaydajiey (TU Delft - Netherlands), A.J. Van De Goor (ComTex - Netherlands)

 

Multi-Cycle Fault Injections in Error Detecting Implementations of the Advanced Encryption Standard
Paolo Maistri (TIMA Laboratory - France), Regis Leveugle (TIMA Laboratory - France)

 

A Novel Method of Test Generation for Asynchronous Speed Independent Circuits
Dilip Vasudevan (University of Edinburgh - United Kingdom), Aristides Efthymiou (Institute for Computing System and Architecture - United Kingdom)

 

15:30-17:00       Session 2: Mixed-Signal And RF Design

Chair: Hisham Haddara, Si-Ware Systems, Egypt

Mehrdad Nourani, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA

 

A Reconfigurable and Programmable Filter for Software Defined Radio
Cristian Matei Rus (Technical University Cluj Napoca - Romania), Lelia Festila (Technical University Cluj Napoca - Romania), Gabor Csipkes (Technical University Cluj Napoca - Romania), Sorin Hintea (Technical University Cluj Napoca - Romania ), Doris Csipkes (Technical University Cluj  Napoca - Romania )

 

Narrowband Interference Suppression for Direct Conversion Software Radios
Oleg Panfilov (Terocelo, Inc - USA), Ron Hickling (Terocelo, Inc. -USA), Tony Turgeon (Terocelo, Inc. - USA)

 

Ultra Low Power Narrow Band LNA
Muhammad El Kholy (Si-Ware Systems - Egypt)

 

Bandwidth Extension of CMOS Transimpedance Amplifier Using On-Chip Spiral Inductor
El-Sayed Hasaneen (El-Minia University - Egypt)

 

17:00-17:15   Coffee Break

 

17:15-18:30       Session 3: Memory Testing And FPGA Based Design

                          Chair: Magdy Fikry, Cairo University, Egypt

                                     Said Hamdioui, Delft University, Netherlands

 

Improving Software Based Self - Testing for Cache Memories
Junusz Sosnowski (Warsaw Technical University - Poland)

 

Using Reconfigurable Computers for DSP Image Processing
Mohamed Taher (Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University - Egypt), Tarek El-Ghazawi (GWU -USA)

 

A Topology-Based Design Methodology For Networks-On-Chip Applications
Haytham El Miligi (University of Victoria - Canada), Ahmed Morgan (University of Victoria - Canada), Mohamed Watheq El-Kharashi (University of Victoria - Canada), Fayez Gebali (University of Victoria - Canada)

 

17:15-18:45       Mentor Graphics Higher Education Program Workshop

Chair: Nevine Darwish, Cairo University, Egypt

           Ian Burgess, Mentor Graphics, USA

 

Equalizer Implementation for 10Gbps Serial Data Link In 90nm CMOS Technology

Ahmed Adel Abdel Fatah, Ahmed Mohamed Arafa, Dina Reda Abdel Hay, Fady Atef Naguib Mohamed, Marwa Mostafa and Mohamed Omar Abdel Aziz, Ain Shams University, Egypt

 

Design and Implementation of An 11-bit Non-Linear Interpolation DAC

Salah M. Esia, Khaled Shehata and Hani F. Ragai, Arab Academy, Egypt

 

 

CUSPARC ASIC & Bluetooth II EDR Application implemented on Stratix II FPGA

A. Abdel Mordy Ayoub, A. Amr Abdel Wahab, A. Hassan Mostafa and M. Kamal Abdel Fattah, Cairo University, Egypt

 

FPGA Design, Implementation And Analysis Of Scalable Low Power Radix 4 Montgomery Multiplication Algorithm

A. A. Ibrahim, H. A. El Simary, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt, A. M. Nassar, Cairo University, Egypt

 

 

Monday Dec 17th, 2007

09:00-10:00       Registration

 

10:00-10:45     Tutorial

             Planning for Functional Verification Closure

Mohamed Salem- Mentor Graphics, Egypt,

Harry Foster – Mentor Graphics, USA

 

10:45-12:15     Panel

            Teaching VLSI in MEA

             Moderator: Alaa El-Rouby, Intel, Egypt

 

            Panelists:

Hany Fikry, French University, Egypt

Serag Habib, Cairo University, Egypt

Hasanen  Amer,  AUC, Egypt

Emad Hegazy, Sysdisoft, Egypt

Ayman ElSayed, Si-Ware Systems, Egypt

Watheq El-Kharashi, Ain Shams University, Egypt 

 

12:15-12:30       Coffee Break

 

12:30-13:45       Session 4: Test Generation, Defect-Based Test & BIST

Chair: Adeeb Ghoniemy, Ain Shams University, Egypt

           Oleg Panfilov, Terocelo, Inc, USA

 

Generation of Power-Constrained Scan Tests And Its Difficulty
Tsuyoshi Iwagaki (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - Japan), Satoshi Ohtake (Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Japan)

 

Transient Current Testing of Gate-Oxide Shorts in CMOS
Ali Mohamed Chehab (American University of

Beirut - Lebanon), Ayman Kayssi (American University of Beirut - Lebanon), Ali Ghandour (American University of Beirut - Lebanon)

 

A Power Measuring Technique For Built-In Testing Of Electrochemical Sensors For Environmental Monitoring
Vasileios Konstantakos (Aristotle University - Greece), Theodore La Opoulos (Aristotle University - Greece)

 

12:30-13:45       Session 5: Fault Tolerance & Analysis 

                          Chair: Khaled El-Ayat, AUC, Egypt

                                     Zaid Al Ars, Delft University, Netherlands

 

A Hazard-Free Majority Voter For TMR-Based Fault Tolerance in Asynchronous Circuits
Sobeeh Al Mukhaizim (Kuwait University – Kuwait), Ozgur Sinanoglu (Kuwait University - Kuwait )

 

Analysis of Laser-Based Attack Effects On A Synchronous Circuit
Vincent Maingot (Tima Laboratory - France), Régis Leveugle (Tima Laboratory - France)

 

Recovery From Transition Errors In Sequential Circuits
Ramashis Das (University of Michigan - USA), John Hayes (University of Michigan - USA)

 

13:45-14:30   Lunch

 

14:30-16:00       Session 6 :  DFT and Low Power Design

                          Chair: Serag Habib, Cairo University, Egypt

           Sobeeh Al Mukhaizim, Kuwait University, Kuwait

 

Adopting the Scan Approach For A Fault Tolerant Asynchronous Clock Generation Circuit
Thomas Handl (Vienna University of Technology –
Austria), Andreas Steninger (Technische Universitaet Wien - Austria), Gerald Kempf (Austrian Aerospace - Austria)

 

Low Power Small Area High Performance 2D-DCT architecture
Mohamed R Rizk (Alexandria University - Egypt), Mostafa Ammar (Alexandria University - Egypt)

 

Design of Real Time Multiprocessor System on Ship
Kais Loukil (National Engineering School, Sfax, Tunisia - Tunisia), Nader Ben Amor (CES - Tunisia), Yassine Aoudni (CES - Tunisia), Mohamed Abid (CES - Tunisia)

 

Reliability Analysis and Distributed Voting for NMR Nanoscale Systems
Mehrdad Nourani (University of Texas at Dallas - USA), Ali Namazi (Univ. of Texas at Dallas - Dallas)

 

14:30-16:00       Session 7: Fault Modeling & Analysis

                          Chair: Khaled Shehata, AAST, Egypt

           Sezer Goren, Bahcesehir University - Turkey

 

Accurate Nano-Circuits Reliability Evaluations Based on Hybrid Monte Carlo—Numerical Simulations
Walid Ibrahim (UAE University - United Arab Emirates), Valeriu Beiu (UAE University - College of IT - United Arab Emirates), Sanja Lazarova-Molnar (UAE University - United Arab Emirates)

 

Exploiting RAM For Fault-Tolerant Functions in FPGA
Laura Frigerio (Politecnico Di Milano - Italy), Fabio Salice (Politecnico Di Milano - Italy)

 

CNTFET-Based CMOS-like Gates and Dispersion of Characteristics
Trong-Trinh Dang (Tima Laboratory - France)

 

16:00-16:15       Coffee Break

 

16:15-17:45       Session 8 : Design Verification & Optimization

Chair: Hamed ElSimary, ERI, Egypt

           Ali Chehab, AUB, Lebanon

 

Verification of the Properties of Asynchronous Real-Time Distributed Systems using the B-Formalism
Ayman Wahba (Ain Shams University - Egypt), Islam El-Maddah (Ain Shams University - Egypt)

 

Optimization of Interacting Controllers Using K-wise Tests
Sezer Goren (Bahcesehir University - Turkey)

 

Fast FPGA-Based Delay Estimation for a Novel Hardware/Software Partitioning Scheme
Mohammed B Abdel-Halim (Faculty of Engineering - Cairo University - Egypt)

 

A High Performance ASIC Based Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Processor over GF(p)
Xiaopeng Zhang (Tsinghua University - China), Shuguo Li (Tsinghua University - China)

 

16:15-17:45       Session 9: Analog And Mixed-Signal Test

Chair: Harry Foster, Mentor Graphics, USA

            Emad Hegazy, Sysdisoft, Egypt

 

Software-Based BIST for Analog to Digital Converters in SoC
Arabi Keshk (Menoufiya University - Egypt), Arabi Ibrahim (Menoufiya University - Egypt)

 

An Auto-Sensitivity Control Circuit Using Analog Topology for Wired CDMA Bus Interface
Mostafa El Toukhy (Helwan University - Egypt)

 

Switched-Capacitor Analog Correlator using Balanced Charge Pump Circuit for CDMA Bus Interface
Mostafa El Toukhy (Helwan University - Egypt)

 

20:00-22:00       Conference Banquet

(Nile Marquise Cruise, Grand Hyatt)

 

 

Tuesday Dec 18th, 2007

 

 

09:00-10:00       Registration

 

10:00-10:45       Invited paper

                          Chair: Ashraf Salem, Mentor Graphics, Egypt

 

Dual Mode PCGCs for Advanced Wireless Communication networks

Hatim M. Behairy, KACST

 

10:45-11:00       Coffee Break

 

11:00-13:00       Session 10: SOC/NOC/MPSOC

Chair: Hazem Abbas, Mentor Graphics, Egypt

           Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, UAEU, UAE

 

Optimized Area and Optimized Speed Hardware Implementations of AES on FPGA
Mohamed R Rizk (Alexandria University - Egypt), Mohamed Morsy (Alexandria University - Egypt)

 

System Level Power and Energy Modeling for Signal Processing Applications
Ktari Jalel (Enis university - Tunisia), Abid Mohamed (Enis-CES - Tunisia)

 

A Low-Power Haar-Wavelet Preprocessing Approach for a SNN Olfactory System
Hoda Abdel-Aat-Zohdy (Oakland University - USA), Jacob Allen (Oakland University - USA), Safa Hassan (Oakland University - USA ), Robert Ewing (Air Force Research Lab -  USA)

 

A High-Speed, Low-Area Processor Array Architecture for Multiplication and Squaring over GF(2^m)
Mohamed Fayed ((University of Victoria - Canada ), Mohamed Watheq El-Kharashi (University of Victoria - Canada), Fayez Gebali (University of Victoria - Canada )

 

Performance Analysis of Networks-on-Chip Routers
Haytham El Miligi (University of Victoria - Canada), Mohamed Watheq El-Kharashi (University of Victoria - Canada), Ahmed Morgan (University of Victoria - Canada), Fayez Gebali (University of Victoria - Canada )

 

11:00-13:00       Session 11: Layout Design & Verification

Chair:   Hany Fikry, French University, Egypt

Tsuyoshi Iwagaki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - Japan

 

A Novel General Graph-Based Simplex Algorithm Applied to IC Layout Compaction and Migration
Hazem Said (Ain Shams University - Egypt), Hazem M Abbas (Mentor Graphics - Egypt), Hussein Shahein (Ain Shams University - Egypt)