SATURDAY WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION (8:30 – 8:50) Session 1:  Interconnect Scaling  Technology Scaling and the Future of Interconnect (Invited Talk)   (8:50-9:50) Ronald Ho, Sun Labs Session 2:  Interconnect Optimization   (10:20-12:00) Prediction of Delay Time for Future LSI Using OnChip Transmission Line Interconnects  Takumi Uezono, Junpei Inoue, Takanori Kyogoku, Kenichi Okada, and Kazuya Masu Predictions of CMOS Compatible On-Chip Optical Interconnect Guoqing Chen, Hui Chen, Mikhail Haurylau, Nicholas Nelson, David Albonesi, Philippe M. Fauchet, and Eby G. Friedman Package Level Interconnect Options J.Balachandran, S.Brebels, G.Carchon, T. Webers, W.De Raedt,B.Nauwelaers and E.Beyne Multilevel Full-Chip Routing with Testability and Yield Enhancement Katherine Shu-Min Li, C.-L. Lee, Yao-Wen Chang, Chauchin Su, J. E Chen Session 3:  Interconnect Variation (1:30-2:30) Dealing with Interconnect Process Variation (Invited Talk)  NS Nagaraj, Texas Instruments Session 4:  Interconnect Prediction (2:30-3:20) Predicting interconnect requirements in ultra-large-scale integrated control logic circuitry Mary Y Lanzerotti, Giovanni Fiorenza, Rick A Rand Prediction model for evaluation of reconfigurable interconnects in distributed shared-memory systems W. Heirman, J. Dambre, C. Debaes, H. Thienpont, D. Stroobandt, J. Van Campenhout Session 5:  Power and Noise (3:50-4:50) Dealing with the Spatio-Temporal Interactions Among Transient Power, Supply Noise and Timing (Invited Talk) David Hathaway, IBM Microelectornics.   SUNDAY Session 6:  Interconnect in Three Dimensions (8:30-9:20) A 3-D FPGA Wire Resource Prediction Model Validated using a 3-D Placement and Routing Tool Young-Su Kwon, Payam Lajevardi, Frank Honor´e and Anantha P. Chandrakasan The Impact of Interstratal Interconnect Density on the Performance of Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits Viet H. Nguyen and Phillip Christie Session 7:  Design Issues For Interconnect (9:40-10:40) Interconnect and Current Density Stress – An Introduction to Electromigration-Aware Design (Invited Talk) Jens Lienig, Dresden Univ. Session 8:  Interconnect Congestion Estimation (11:00-11:50) Congestion Prediction in Early Stages Chiu-Wing Sham and Evangeline F. Y. Young Is Probabilistic Congestion Estimation Worthwhile? Jurjen Westra and Patrick Groeneveld CLOSING REMARKS  (11:50-12:00)