---new concepts and breakthroughs in VLSI devices and processes
--new functional devices including quantum effect devices with possible VLSI implementation
--materials innovation for MOSFET and interconnect in VLSI
--advanced lithography and fine patterning technologies for high density VLSI
--process/device modeling of VLSI devices
--packaging and reliability of VLSI devices
--theories and fundamentals related to the above devices
--new concepts and technologies for VLSI manufacturing

For the Circuits Symposium:
The 2008 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 will now have a two day overlap with the 2008 Symposium on VLSI Technology which is being held at the same hotel.

- Circuit design to address challenges of deeply scaled technologies - e.g. DFM, variability, reliability.
- Digital circuit techniques
- Analog and mixed signal circuits such as data converters and amplifiers to address performance, power, technology scaling, and variability.
- Complex SOC systems describing new architectures and implementations.
- Circuit approaches for clock generation and distribution.
- Advances in memory circuits; especially for embedded memories in scaled technologies.
- Adaptive power techniques and power management for analog and digital circuits
- Techniques for digitally-assisted analog and analog-assisted digital including digital implementation of previously analog functions.
- Architectures and circuits for RF and wireless communications.
- Circuits for sensors and displays
- Wireline transceiver and I/O design optimized for high bandwidth and low-power spanning from chip-to-chip through long-reach applications.
- Fundamentals related to the above, including innovative transistor-level circuit design and circuits for characterizing technology changes and variations.

Papers will be considered on the basis of originality, innovation, and advancing the field. Implementation in silicon and measured results will be considered favorably in the ratings. It is understood that papers in new areas are likely to contain less quantitative evaluations than those in more established areas.