Conferences

• ISPLED - deadline March 20, 2009
• CICC - deadline April 21, 2009
• ICCAD - deadline May 11, 2009
• ICCD - deadline May 14, 2009
• ASPDAC - deadline July 14, 2009
• VLSI Design - deadline July 17, 2009
• ISCAS - deadline Oct 2009
• ISPD - deadline Oct 2009
• ISQED - deadline Oct 31, 2009
• DATE - deadline Nov 21, 2009
• DAC - deadline Nov, 2009
• GLSVLSI - deadline Dec 2009

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI)
• IEEE Transactions on CAD (TCAD)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
• Integration, the VLSI Journal - Elsevier (Integration-VLSI)
• Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE)

Academic and commercial tools and benchmarks

• OpenEDA
• fpgaCAD - free CAD tool flows for FPGA research
• UMICH physical design tools
• NCSU FreePDK
• Sequential Interactive synthesis - SIS
• BoxRouter
• ISPD98 benchmark suite
• ISCAS benchmarks
  • High level in Verilog
  • Other formats
• MCNC benchmarks
• IBM-PLACE benchmarks

Other Useful links

• International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
• EETimes - Electronics Industry News
• GSRC bookshelf