FDL'05 Call for Contributions

Dear WG members,

Please consider the following event as a good opportunity to present and discuss 
VHDL-AMS related issues. A working group meeting is also very likely to happen 
at that time.

Best regards,
Alain Vachoux

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           Forum on specification and Design Languages - FDL'05
                              An ECSI event

                          September 27-30, 2005
                       EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

                    ****  CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS  ****
                    **** Deadline April 1st, 2005 ****

              Full information at <http://www.ecsi.org/fdl>
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FDL is  the European  forum to  exchange experiences  and learn of new
trends in  the application  of languages  and their  associated design
methods and tools for the  design of electronic systems. The  forum is
organized around  thematic areas  (TA) and  includes working sessions,
poster sessions, embedded tutorials, panels and technical discussions.
Fringe meetings  such as  user group  or standardization  meetings are
also held in conjunction with the Forum.
FDL'05 is the eighth occurrence of a series of successful events  that
started in 1998 in Lausanne.

THEMATIC AREAS
     o AMS - Analog, Mixed-Signal and Heterogeneous System Design

     o CSD - C/C++-Based System Design

     o UML - UML-Based System Specification & Design

     o General topics: Specification driven design, formal verification
       techniques, mixed formal/simulation-based verification
       techniques, formal languages, synchronous languages, modeling
       concepts, models of computation.

GENERAL CHAIR
     Alain Vachoux, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, alain.vachoux@epfl.ch

THEMATIC AREA CHAIRS
     AMS: Christoph Grimm, Univ. Frankfurt, Germany,
          grimm@ti.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
     CSD: Frank Oppenheimer, OFFIS, Germany
          frank.oppenheimer@offis.de
     UML: Piet van der Putten, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
          p.h.a.v.d.putten@tue.nl

PAPERS
     Short papers (4 pages, 5 minute presentation + poster) and  regular
     papers  (6-12  pages,  20  minute  presentation  +  5  minute  Q&A)
     are invited. Accepted papers  will be published in  proceedings and
     in  a  CD-ROM.  A  selection  of   best  regular   papers  will  be
     published  in an edited  book from Kluwer Academic  Publishers (now
     part of Springer).

TUTORIALS
     Proposals  for half-day  (4 hours)  tutorials on  FDL topics   will
     be  accepted  depending  on  topic  relevance  and  evidence  of  a
     comprehensive agenda.  Accepted tutorials  will get  one free  full
     registration to  the Forum per tutorial.

PANELS, SPECIAL  SESSIONS, WORKING  GROUPS, PROJECT  MEETINGS
     Proposal for      special      sessions      (panels,       working
     sessions, standardization  or user   group meetings,  etc.)  around
     any of   the FDL  topics  are   invited   and   will  be   accepted
     depending  on   their relevance   and  interest  to the   audience.
     Fringe meetings will be also possible in the evenings.

DEMONSTRATIONS
     Companies, universities or other organizations providing innovative
     tools and environments for the topics described above will find  in
     FDL an opportunity to make demonstration of them to the attendees.

FDL SECRETARIAT
     For any inquiries, please contact:
        Florence Pourchelle, ECSI
        EM: florence.pourchelle@ecsi.org
        Ph: +33 488 21 26 97