Welcome to the 2004 Symposium on VLSI Circuits
You are cordially invited to attend the 2004 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, to be held on June 17-19th, 2004, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii. Following the tradition of the last several years, the Symposium on VLSI Circuits will follow the Symposium on VLSI Technology at the same location.
The Symposium will mark its 18th anniversary. The Symposium has established itself as a major international forum for presenting and exchanging important ideas and new developments in VLSI circuit design. We have expanded the scope to include new concepts in VLSI, such as MEMS, novel Memory technologies, and Quantum Computing, in addition to the traditional Analog, Digital, Memory, Signal Processing, and Communication circuits. Contributions to the Symposium come from both industry and academia, around the world.
Preceding the Symposium on June 16th, a one-day Short Course on VLSI Circuits will be held. This short course will focus on "Designing High Data Rate Interfaces" where seven well known experts will give talks on advanced l/O design.
This year, the technical program committee reviewed 329 papers, selecting 108 papers for presentation. These papers disclose new and interesting design concepts for memory, processor, communication, analog, and signal processing circuits.
We have invited four distinguished speakers to describe recent advances and new challenges related to VLSI circuits and technology: “The Image Processing Chain in Digital Still Cameras”, “Semiconductor Technologies Supporting New Generation Hybrid Cars”, “The World’s Smallest RFID ?-Chip, Bringing About New Business and Lifestyles”, and “Fuel Cells and Portable Electronics”.
To complement the formal talks, we have arranged four evening rump sessions on interesting and provocative subjects to give you an opportunity to participate in the discussions and mix with the participants. The rump sessions explore: “What’s Beyond the Planar MOSFET”, “Limitations of Low FO4 Designs”, “The Future of Embedded SRAM – Cornerstone or Millstone?”, and “Analog CAD: Computer Aided Design, or, Computer Accelerated Disaster?”.
The rich technical content of the program will undoubtedly interest you, and we certainly hope that the Symposium will be a fruitful and enjoyable experience.
This booklet contains the advance program together with forms for the Symposium registration and hotel reservations. Please try to complete and 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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Bruce Gieseke |
Tadahiro Kuroda |
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Program Co-Chair |
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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