[CfP] Computer Aided Modeling and Design Development Room
# FOSDEM 22 We are pleased to announce the CfP for the Open Source Computer Aided Modeling and Design devroom at FOSDEM 2021, on Saturday, 5 February 2022. FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2022/ FOSDEM Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ We hope you'll join us for a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on designing, modeling and testing physical objects using Open Source tools. This year's event will be fully virtual (:sad trombone:) and will feature multiple channels for talks, Q&A as well as hallway discussions (:happy dance:). We welcome any talk proposals about the creation of physical objects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Open Hardware projects - Circuit Design * Printed circuit board design tools * Circuit simulation - 3d modeling and analysis * Solid modeling tools * Meshing, modeling and transforming physical representations * Finite element analysis - 3d printing * 3d slicing tools * Motor control - Machine design and integration * ECAD/MCAD integration * Thermal analysis * Wire modeling - Physical Model Data storage * Data representation and optimization * Version control in hardware data storage * Collaborative and team-based hardware design techniques Slots will be allocated for short (20 minutes), long (40 minutes) talks and in-depth (60 minutes). This includes question time, for which you should budget at least 20% of your time. Speakers need to specify their preferred format. Both include time for questions and answers. Depending on the number of submissions, submitters may be asked to utilize an alternate time format. ## The submission process Please submit your proposals at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please include the following information with your submission: - Abstract - Preferred Session length - Speaker bio - Link to any hardware / code /slides for the talk When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Open Source Computer Aided Modeling and Design" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal may go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Keep in mind that much of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please allot at least 20% of the talk time for questions and answers. ## Important dates - Call for papers available: 29 November 2021 - Call for participation closes: 28 December 2021 - Devroom schedule available: 1 January 2022 - Talk recording uploads due: 20 January 2022 - Devroom day: Saturday 5 February 2022 (09:00 to 17:00) ## Recordings Because this year's conference will be fully virtual, all talks must be pre-recorded. These will be verified for sound and video quality prior to the conference. Each accepted talk will have a dedicated chaperone to help you through the process of recording, encoding and uploading your talk. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).
# Call for Papers This is a new devroom dedicated to Libre/Open VLSI, aka "Nanoscale 3D Printing". It is a specialisation of the CAD/CAM / Open Hardware devroom. Libre/Open VLSI, very excitingly, has begun to take off, recently. NLnet sponsors several VLSI-related projects (Cell Libraries, HDL, VLSI tools), Google sponsors Skywater 130nm MPWs. Please distribute widely to interested parties: anything related to VLSI and Open Tape-outs is welcome. ### What is FOSDEM? _**FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.** Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. ... FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event._ ### Important stuff: - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/) - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/) - [FOSDEM Schedule](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/) ### Desirable topics: This devroom welcomes anything related to the topic of nanoscale 3D printing - more commonly known as "VLSI ASIC design". If you are making an ASIC, or designing one, or using FPGAs, or developing an FPGA Board, or developing tools and techniques that make VLSI ASIC design easier, we'd love to hear from you. Here's a list of topics: - Open Hardware projects - VLSI ASIC Design and Manufacture * Libre/Open DIY Foundries (nanoscale 3D printing) * Libre/Open VLSI tools and toolflow * Libre/Open VLSI Cell Libraries * VLSI Simulation and Verification - VLSI Tools in use or in development * Silicon-proven (QFlow, coriolis2, OpenLANE) * Under development (LibreEDA, other) * Advances in Algorithmics in Place and Route and Layout - FPGAs * Libre/Open FPGA designs * FPGA toolchains and Reverse-Engineering * FPGA workflow - VLSI RTL and HDL * Advanced and innovative alternative HDL tools * Formal Correctness Proofs * Testing methodologies * Hardware Trust (and how to break it) - Software Engineering as applied to Hardware * Continuous Integration for VLSI * Automated tool development (RTL to GDS-II) * Automated testing ### Topic overlap There is quite a lot of overlap this year with: * [CAD devroom]( https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/open_source_computer_aided_modeling_a...), * [Emulator devroom](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/emulator_development/) * [Retro room](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/retrocomputing/) It is entirely up to you as a speaker which devroom you choose: the main reason for a new VLSI devroom this year is because it is a rapidly expanding area formerly entirely NDA'd. ### How to submit your proposal To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2022 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22) (the mystery of whether pentabarf means barfing in 5 directions or in 5 colors has not been solved yet). Create an **event** and click on **Show all** in the top right corner to display the full form. Make sure you choose the right devroom in the track drop-down menu (so that we see it rather than another devroom's organisers) ### What should be in your submission - name - short bio - contact info - title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated) - abstract (what you're going talk about) - duration ### Things to be aware of * The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels> * Talks have to be pre-recorded in advance between the first two weeks of January, and will be streamed during the event. * Q/A session will be taken live, just after each recorded talk. As such, please make sure that you will be online and available on the day of the event. * A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves. * A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions. ### Important Dates - **December 28th: submission deadline** - FAQ - is the submission deadline final? - Technically speaking, you can submit talks till pentabarf closes, which should be somewhere in January - However, talks submitted before the 29th get a higher precedence - ASAP: announcement selected talks - January: speakers are contacted to upload pre-record sessions - February 6th: FOSDEM! (with live Q&A during recorded talks) ### Contact us - [Luke Leighton](mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net) - [Christophe PFaab](mailto:pfaab@uni-bremen.de) - "lkcl" or "mwfc" on #fosdem Libera.Chat IRC
Hi So I assume it's online this year? Because as far as I understood, I'd be denied entrance to Brussels if I'd refused to disclose my private medical information, when I want to travel there. I do not like to share my medical status, and I refuse to travel into a country, which demands my private medical information when entering. Which means no, I won't tell you about my medical status either. If anyone now wants to assume I'd be anti-this, denyer-that, I'd suggest to take a deep breath, hold for a moment, and think very hard, whether a privacy focused conference is the right place for you :-) Cheers -lev On Wednesday, December 1, 2021 3:24:05 PM WET lkcl wrote:
# Call for Papers
This is a new devroom dedicated to Libre/Open VLSI, aka "Nanoscale 3D Printing". It is a specialisation of the CAD/CAM / Open Hardware devroom. Libre/Open VLSI, very excitingly, has begun to take off, recently. NLnet sponsors several VLSI-related projects (Cell Libraries, HDL, VLSI tools), Google sponsors Skywater 130nm MPWs.
Please distribute widely to interested parties: anything related to VLSI and Open Tape-outs is welcome.
### What is FOSDEM?
_**FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.** Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. ... FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event._
### Important stuff:
- FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/) - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/) - [FOSDEM Schedule](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/)
### Desirable topics:
This devroom welcomes anything related to the topic of nanoscale 3D printing - more commonly known as "VLSI ASIC design". If you are making an ASIC, or designing one, or using FPGAs, or developing an FPGA Board, or developing tools and techniques that make VLSI ASIC design easier, we'd love to hear from you. Here's a list of topics:
- Open Hardware projects - VLSI ASIC Design and Manufacture * Libre/Open DIY Foundries (nanoscale 3D printing) * Libre/Open VLSI tools and toolflow * Libre/Open VLSI Cell Libraries * VLSI Simulation and Verification - VLSI Tools in use or in development * Silicon-proven (QFlow, coriolis2, OpenLANE) * Under development (LibreEDA, other) * Advances in Algorithmics in Place and Route and Layout - FPGAs * Libre/Open FPGA designs * FPGA toolchains and Reverse-Engineering * FPGA workflow - VLSI RTL and HDL * Advanced and innovative alternative HDL tools * Formal Correctness Proofs * Testing methodologies * Hardware Trust (and how to break it) - Software Engineering as applied to Hardware * Continuous Integration for VLSI * Automated tool development (RTL to GDS-II) * Automated testing
### Topic overlap
There is quite a lot of overlap this year with:
* [CAD devroom]( https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/open_source_computer_aided_modeling_a nd_design/), * [Emulator devroom](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/emulator_development/) * [Retro room](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/retrocomputing/)
It is entirely up to you as a speaker which devroom you choose: the main reason for a new VLSI devroom this year is because it is a rapidly expanding area formerly entirely NDA'd.
### How to submit your proposal
To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2022 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22) (the mystery of whether pentabarf means barfing in 5 directions or in 5 colors has not been solved yet).
Create an **event** and click on **Show all** in the top right corner to display the full form. Make sure you choose the right devroom in the track drop-down menu (so that we see it rather than another devroom's organisers)
### What should be in your submission
- name - short bio - contact info - title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated) - abstract (what you're going talk about) - duration
### Things to be aware of
* The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels> * Talks have to be pre-recorded in advance between the first two weeks of January, and will be streamed during the event. * Q/A session will be taken live, just after each recorded talk. As such, please make sure that you will be online and available on the day of the event. * A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves. * A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions.
### Important Dates
- **December 28th: submission deadline** - FAQ - is the submission deadline final? - Technically speaking, you can submit talks till pentabarf closes, which should be somewhere in January - However, talks submitted before the 29th get a higher precedence - ASAP: announcement selected talks - January: speakers are contacted to upload pre-record sessions - February 6th: FOSDEM! (with live Q&A during recorded talks)
### Contact us
- [Luke Leighton](mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net) - [Christophe PFaab](mailto:pfaab@uni-bremen.de) - "lkcl" or "mwfc" on #fosdem Libera.Chat IRC _______________________________________________ Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 12:51 AM David Lanzendörfer <leviathan@libresilicon.com> wrote:
Hi So I assume it's online this year?
yes.
to take a deep breath, hold for a moment, and think very hard, whether a privacy focused conference is the right place for you :-)
i'm sure that history will relate that this took a while for the significance to sink in. in the meantime - luckily - FOSDEM is entirely online. l.
folks, thank you to the people who have submitted talks already for the (completely new, experimental) VLSI / FPGA devroom, there are three so far and another three that i know of which are promised: although small at this point i'd say it warrants keeping its own devroom rather than merging with the CAD one? whatever the decision please do submit your abstracts! https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 it would be nice to have a finalised schedule, it makes the organisers task easier, and everyone is volunteers. l.
There we go :-) https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22/event/13037 I'll probably need an hour, but damn, I already hear myself cursing during cutting of the video -_- Cheers -lev On Wednesday, December 29, 2021 7:58:48 PM WET lkcl wrote:
folks, thank you to the people who have submitted talks already for the (completely new, experimental) VLSI / FPGA devroom, there are three so far and another three that i know of which are promised: although small at this point i'd say it warrants keeping its own devroom rather than merging with the CAD one?
whatever the decision please do submit your abstracts! https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22
it would be nice to have a finalised schedule, it makes the organisers task easier, and everyone is volunteers.
l.
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