The International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) provides a premier forum to exchange ideas and promote innovative research in all aspects of physical design ranging from traditional topics for ASIC and FPGA designs to emerging technologies that impact physical design of integrated circuits (ICs). In 2025, ISPD will be held at Holiday Inn Midtown Austin in Austin, Texas. The 34th symposium will highlight key new directions and leading-edge theoretical and experimental contributions to the field.

Sponsored by ACM SIGDA with technical co-sponsorship from IEEE CEDA

Physical design topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Floorplanning and interconnect planning
Interactions with system and logic level design
Partitioning, placement, and routing
Timing and power estimation and modeling
Clock and power networks
Circuit analysis and optimization in a physical design context
Post layout and post-silicon optimization
Data management, multi-threaded/distributed algorithm
Design for manufacturability and yield
Hot topics such as machine learning and hardware security
Physical synthesis
3D ICs, quantum circuits, and other emerging technologies