SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and the Japan Society of Applied Physics In Cooperation with the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and the IEEE Electron Devices Society Hilton Hawaiian Village Honolulu, Hawaii USA June 17 - 19, 2004 The 2004 Symposium on VLSI Circuits will provide the designers of integrated circuits an opportunity to meet and present important new work at an international forum. The three day Symposium will continue the successful format and atmosphere established by the previous meetings, and partially overlap the 2004 Symposium on VLSI Technology, which is being held at the same hotel. The scope of the Symposium covers all aspects of VLSI circuits, such as: - digital, analog, and mixed digital-analog circuits: such as processors, ASICs, A/D and D/A converters, interface circuits, etc. - memory circuits: such as static memory, non-volatile memory, cache memory, dynamic memory, and new concepts in memories based on quantum mechanics effects, magnetism, polymers, etc. - system architecture, circuits and building blocks for networking applications - circuits, functional blocks using quantum dots, MEMS, sensors, etc. - circuits for wireless and wireline communications The emphasis will be on circuit design. Papers will be considered on the basis of originality and quality. Implementation in a semiconductor chip and measured results are not mandatory. They are required only when feasibility of the presented circuit is not clear by simulations alone, such as in the case for most analog submissions. It is understood that papers in new areas are likely to contain less quantitative evaluations than those in more established areas. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD The VLSI Circuit Symposium has established a Best Student Paper Award starting with the year 2004. The selection will base upon the quality of the written paper and the presentation. The student that receives the Best Student Paper Award will receive a monetary award and a certificate, which will be presented at the opening session of the 2005 Symposium. The Symposium will cover the travel expense and registration fee for the award recipient to attend the 2005 Symposium. The student must be the leading author and presenter of the paper, and must indicate in the submission cover letter that this is a student paper in order to be considered for this award. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS This year we will be offering online submission of abstracts. Information will be available by the middle of December. Your complete paper for the Circuits Symposium must occupy either two or four (never three) pages including illustrations. The choice of paper length (either 2 or 4 pages) is an option for authors whenever two pages is not enough to completely describe the major novelty and results of their work. The paper length will not be a criterion in selection of the papers for the program. For those interested in hard copy submission, contact your respective secretariat, as early as possible, to receive an author's kit. The papers are to be submitted in final form and, if accepted, will be published as submitted. The 2 camera-ready copies of your paper and 52 DOUBLE-SIDED copies are to be sent to Widerkehr and Associates (North America and Europe) or to the Business Center for Academic Societies Japan (all countries except North America and Europe). Secretariat for VLSI Symposia (USA) Widerkehr and Associates 16220 S. Frederick Ave Suite 312 Gaithersburg, MD 20877 USA Tel: +301-527-0900 ext. 103 Fax: +301-527-0994 E-mail:vlsi@vlsisymposium.org Secretariat for VLSI Symposia (Japan) c/o Business Center for Academic Societies Japan, 2F 5-16-9 Homkomagome, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8622 Japan Tel: +81-3-5814-5800 Fax: +81-3-5814-5823 E-mail:vlsisymp@bcasj.or.jp To improve the probability for acceptance of a submitted paper, the paper should describe original work with specific results from experiments or simulations. The content of the paper must not be announced or published prior to the Symposium. Deadline for Receipt of Papers is January 7, 2004 INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Prospective attendees can obtain further information and forms for Symposium registration and hotel reservations by contacting their respective secretariats. Submissions from universities are encouraged. Partial travel expense support for students who are presenting papers is available upon request. WORLD WIDE WEB The VLSI Symposia have a web page. It contains general information on the Symposia. The address is: http://www.vlsisymposium.org VLSI CIRCUITS SHORT COURSE A one-day short course will be held on June 16, 2004. Details will be given in the VLSI Circuits Symposium Advance Program, which will be issued toward the end of March, 2004. Preceding this Symposium, the 2004 Symposium on VLSI Technology will be held at the same location. See the reverse side.