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TUCS GP Student Amir-Mohammad Rahmani's Travel Report from ASP-DAC'12
- Full name of the event: IEEE/ACM International Asia and South PAcific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC'12)
- Place and date: Sydney, Australia, Jan. 30 – Feb. 2, 2012
- Type of event: Conference
- My article:
- Title of paper: ARB-NET: A Novel Adaptive Monitoring Platform for Stacked Mesh 3D NoC Architectures
- Authors: Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Khalid Latif, Kameswar Rao Vaddina, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila and Hannu Tenhunen
- The scientific profile of the event: ASP-DAC 2012 is the seventeenth annual international conference on VLSI design automation in Asia and South Pacific region, one of the most active regions of design and fabrication of silicon chips in the world. The conference aims at providing the Asian and South Pacific CAD/DA and Design community with opportunities of presenting recent advances and with forums for future directions in technologies related to Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The format of the meeting intends to cultivate and promote an instructive and productive interchange of ideas among EDA researchers/developers and system/circuit/device designers.
- Opinion on the best paper and its topic: The first keynote speech presented by Professor Giovanni De Micheli. The presentation topic was “Engineering Complex Systems for Health, Security and the Environment”.
- Number of participants: Approximately more than 200 people.
- Social events: There was a special dinner cruise on Feb. 1st. we gathered outside the Main Entrance of the convention centre. The group then moved around Darling Harbour to board the Starship Sydney.
- Touristic impressions: Australia’s leading business events venue, the Sydney Convention and exhibition Centre, is superbly located on the Darling Harbour waterfront, adjacent to the bustling Sydney central business district. The Centre comprises three major buildings: Convention Centre Bayside, Convention Centre Parkside and the Exhibition Centre. The perfect venue for meetings, conferences, exhibitions and special events, the Centre offers over 30 flexible meeting rooms, ranging from smaller spaces suitable for events for up to 50 people, to an auditorium accommodating 3,500. It also features six exhibition halls and offers a total exhibition space of 30,000 square meters.
A thriving precinct on the edge of Sydney’s central business district, Darling Harbour is home to some of Australia’s most significant tourist attractions as well as a myriad of restaurants and shops, all attuned to the interests and needs of conference delegates and visitors. Many of the city’s vibrant public festivals and events are held in Darling Harbour, which features beautiful parks and a series of major sculptures. Darling Harbour is also incorporated into some of the Centre’s major events, most notably the Sydney International Boat Show which extends into the Cockle Bay Marina.