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NSF Workshop on Micro/Nano Circuits and Systems Design

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 Electronic design and design automation (EDA) is a key enabling technology in the advancement of information processing that we are enjoying today. EDA has provided fundamental design principles and tools empowering the exponential growth of the number of transistors on an integrated circuit chip over the past 50 years. Without EDA, it would not have been possible for billion-transistor chips to be a reality! 

After five decades of growth, the field of EDA now faces some unique challenges. On one hand, we are approaching the physical limit of transistor scaling, and the golden days of exponential growth in transistor density are over. The exorbitant cost of integrated circuit fabrication and the excessive complexity of EDA tools make it difficult to bring design automation innovations to practice. On the other hand, the recent rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence applications and emerging architectures and technologies calls for more customized solutions to designing electronic systems. 

## **Objectives of the Workshop:**

This workshop, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will assemble a diverse group of leading researchers from both academia and industry to identify future research directions in design and design automation of electronic systems and architectures in response to the challenges and opportunities. It will feature plenary talks and panels as well as roundtable discussions. Collectively, the workshop attendees will explore answers to overarching questions such as 

•	what are the high-risk and high-return research topics, 

•	what other fields adjacent to EDA research should be aggressively pursued for highly interdisciplinary collaboration, and

•	where the research funding should come from and how it should be distributed to encourage more transformative research. 

The workshop will also include a satellite event with a roundtable panel discussion on strategies to improve foundry access to US-based EDA researchers. A final report, based on the deliberations of the workshop, will be produced to the government recommending future research directions.


Concluding Session

EDA tools and methodologies - Design should be as simple as possible, but not simpler

EDA tools and methodologies - Computational Software and Future of EDA

Foundational technologies - Nano-electro-mechanical switches for future computing paradigms

Foundational technologies - Emerging applications from two-dimensional systems and their potential for 3D heterogeneous integration

AI/ML and other hardware design - Sustainable Computing via Domain-Specific Architecture and Efficient Circuits

AI/ML and other hardware design - 3D Silicon Brains

Tools and Abstractions: How to Bring IC-like Design Productivity to Buildings and Artificial Living Organisms

Network Design Automation- When Clarke Meets Cerf

Probabilistic Computing with p-Bits

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