Author's Guide DOWNLOAD LAST MINUTE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CIRCUITS DOWNLOAD SPEAKER GUIDELINES DOWNLOAD COPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORM TECHNOLOGY CIRCUITS DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION GUIDELINES Submission to the Symposia on VLSI Technology and VLSI Circuits is now closed. Dear Author(s): Welcome to the 2005 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits. We appreciate your interest in submitting a paper to the Symposium. Papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically. Prior to preparing your paper for electronic submission, please read the paper preparation and submission guidelines below. Paper Preparation For the Technology Symposium: Your complete paper must occupy no more than two pages including illustrations. For the Circuits Symposium: Your complete paper must occupy either two or four pages including illustrations (never three). 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 option of four pages is to promote a clearer and better understanding of the author's work for both the attendees and reference readers of the published Digest of Technical Papers. The paper length will not be a criterion in selection of the papers for the program. If the four-page paper format is chosen for submission, please ensure that the additional two pages do have significant additional content that could not be covered with just two pages. Submitted papers, which exceed this length, will not be accepted for review. Each page can contain about 700 words and two illustrations (assuming each illustration is two-column format). A page could contain as many as six illustrations if they are sized accordingly. When preparing the final pages, please follow carefully the instructions in the Author's Guide and the Precaution to create a PDF file. Please avoid the use of special Asian fonts in the main body text, figures, charts, and tables of the paper submission. In order to insure that your paper receives a complete review, it is imperative that you follow all the instructions. Author's Guide that provides a detailed description of camera-ready paper preparation. The paper must be in final form, and if accepted, will be published without any modifications. Precaution to create a PDF file that provides a detailed description for creating a PDF file. 75 Word Abstract The abstract is a brief synopsis of your paper. It will be used by the Symposium Technical Program Committee in press releases and pre-Symposium publicity. The abstract should be typed in the Technical Paper Submission Form directly. You must enter plain ASCII text only, and you may not exceed 75 words. Neither tables nor figures may appear in the abstract. Copyright Transfer Form Copyright Transfer Form should be sent to the Secretariat if your paper is accepted. Detailed information will be given in the acceptance letter. To revise your submissions To revise an already submitted paper, you should revisit the Technical Paper Submission Form, enter ID/Password, and make your updates. You can revise or confirm your submission as many times as you wish up until the deadline. To cancel your submission, you should inform the Secretariat in writing. Deadline for submission of papers is 17:00, January 7, 2005 (JST). We are sorry but due to review deadlines, papers received after that date will not be accepted for review. If accepted for presentation, the content of the paper must not be announced or published prior to the Symposia. The Technical Program Committee will review all submitted papers and authors will receive notification of the Committee's decision around March 5, 2005. We thank you for your interest in the Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact: 2005 VLSI Symposia Secretariat c/o ICS Convention Design, Inc. 3-24 Kanda - Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101-8449 JAPAN Phone : +81-3-3219-3541 FAX : +81-3-3292-1811 e-mail : vlsisymp@ics-inc.co.jp