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The Electronic Design Processes (EDP) Workshop provides a forum for a cross-section of the design community to discuss state-of-the-art electronic design processes and CAD methodologies. As the requirements and complexities of electronic design increase, past ad hoc approaches to design processes are proving inadequate. The workshop focuses on the facilitation and improvement of the overall design process, rather than on the functions of the individual tools themselves. Topics include interactions among and between tools and designers, the infrastructures supporting these interactions, and the frameworks in which these interactions take place. EDP 2001 is sponsored by the Design Automation Technical Committee (DATC) of the IEEE Computer Society, which represents professionals involved in using, researching and developing computer-aided techniques in all aspects of design processes for computer and electronic systems. The DATC subcommittees emphasize design processes, libraries, design languages, logic synthesis, verification (including all forms of simulation), manufacturing interfaces, graphics, and database management. The DATC sponsors and co-sponsors about 15 conferences and workshops such as the Workshop on High-Level Synthesis, the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference and Exhibition, and the Conference on Computer Hardware Description Languages and Their Applications. The DATC works extensively with the many other organizations contributing to Design Automation such as: VHDL International (VI), the Design Automation Standards Subcommittee (DASC), the European SIGVHDL, and Verilog International. The DATC Web Newsletter offers editorial space for all of these organizations. The DATC publishes the Design Automation TC Newsletter four times a year in Design and Test magazine and the Web-based Newsletter throughout the year. Steering Committee Steve Grout (Tality) David Hathaway (IBM) Dwight Hill (Synopsys) José Augusto D. F. Lima (Univ. of Minho) Margarida Jacome (UT-Austin) Andrew B. Kahng (UCSD) Naresh Sehgal (Intel) General Chair David Hathaway, IBM Technical Program Chair Andrew B. Kahng, UCSD Publicity Chair Stefanus Mantik, UCLA Local Arrangements Chair Rik Vigeland, Mentor