Welcome to the 2008 Symposium on VLSI Circuits
You are cordially invited to attend the 2008
Symposium on VLSI Circuits, to be held on June 18-20th, 2008, at the
Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii. Following the rich
tradition, the Circuits Symposium will follow the Symposium on VLSI
Technology at the same location.
New for this year, the
Circuits Symposium will overlap the Technology Symposium by two full
days. The two overlap days between Technology and Circuits will
allow attendees to freely choose to attend papers from either
Symposium, providing a unique opportunity to learn about the latest
advances in both VLSI Circuits and Technology, and to interact and
exchange ideas with attendees from both Symposia.
Preceding
the Symposium on June 17th, two all-day Short Courses on VLSI
circuits will be held. For one registration fee, participants can
attend either parallel course. The first course, focusing on new
challenges facing memory and digital designers is titled “Embedded
Memory Design”. The other course focuses on the growing challenges
in system integration for analog and digital designers and is titled
“Embedded Power Management Circuits and Systems.”
This year,
the technical program committee reviewed 410 papers, selecting 84
outstanding papers for presentation. These papers disclose new
developments in Memory, Analog Circuits, Data Converters, Digital
Circuits and Processors, and Wireless and Wireline Communication,
and represent the leading edge of VLSI circuit design. These papers
are in addition to 80 papers from the Technology Symposium.
Contributions come from both industry and academia, from around the
world.
We have invited two distinguished speakers to describe
recent advances and new challenges related to VLSI circuits,
technology and applications: “Next Generation Micro-Power Systems”
by Anantha Chandrakasan of Massachusetts Inst. of Technology and
“Power-Efficient Heterogeneous Parallelism for Digital Convergence”
by Kunio Uchiyama of Hitachi, Ltd.
To complement the formal
talks, we have arranged three evening rump sessions on interesting
and provocative subjects to give you an opportunity to participate
in the discussions and mix with the participants who were chosen to
represent contrasting opinions on the topics. The rump sessions
explore: “The Future of Silicon Storage – Can Solid State
Technologies Take Center Stage?”; “Photons vs. Electrons – Which
will Win and When?”; “Ten Years After – Has SOI Finally
Arrived?”.
Also, new for this year is the Circuits Luncheon
on Friday. With a separate fee, you can enjoy an exciting and
thought-provoking talk by Tom Lee of Stanford University on “The
Great Transatlantic Cable and the Birth of Electrical Engineering.”
It has limited space and, as with all of Tom Lee’s talks, will be
very popular. So please do not wait to sign-up!
The rich
technical content of the program will undoubtedly interest you, and
we certainly hope that it will be a fruitful and enjoyable
experience.
This booklet contains the advance program
together with the on-line information and forms for the Symposium
registration and hotel reservations. Please try to complete these
on-line or return these forms as soon as possible. Although the
on-site registration will be available at the conference,
pre-registration will facilitate Symposium planning.
We look
forward to meeting with you at the Symposium in Honolulu.
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Katsu
Nakamura |
Masayuki Mizuno |
| Program Chair |
Program
Co-Chair |
To download a PDF of the Circuits Program -
click here
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