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About the Symposia

Professors Shoji Tanaka and Walter Kosonocky, founders of the Symposia, first organized the VLSI Technology Symposium in 1981 with the hope of offering an opportunity for world’s top technologists to engage in an open exchange of ideas on what was quickly becoming a revolution in the world’s industrial capability. Since then, the Symposium has been held annually and has grown to be an important and valuable event for people working in the VLSI business. The presentation of high-quality papers has made it possible for attendees to learn about new directions in the development of VLSI technology. The friendly atmosphere has made this an enjoyable learning experience.

The Symposium on VLSI Technology has alternated each year between sites in US and Japan. In 1987, the first Symposium on VLSI Circuits was held in conjunction with the Technology Symposium in recognition of the growing interest to provide the same small but intense and open forum for discussing circuit and system implementations. Since then, this annual meeting has increased its value over the past 26 years. We are confident that so many new technologies and circuits were introduced in the past Symposia and thus have contributed to the prosperity of the world. Its sponsors continue to be the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Solid-State Circuits Society, and the Japan Society of Applied Physics in cooperation with the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

For many reasons, these meetings have remained linked for the past years to provide opportunities for technology people and circuit and system designers to interact with each other. These interactions are augmented with short courses, invited speakers and several evening rump sessions. In recognition of the efforts of organizers, authors and participants to make the Symposia successful, there is ample banquet and entertainment prearranged.

The 2013 meeting was held in Kyoto Japan.  This year it will be returning to the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii in June of 2014.

Best Student Paper Award


    The VLSI Symposia has established a Best Student Paper Award to encourage the research of student project which will lead the next generation.

Future Symposia

    June 15 – 19, 2015  -  Rihga Royal Hotel, Kyoto

Past Symposia

Committees

  • IEEE Executive Committee

    Chair

      Charles Sodini Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Members

      Ajith Amerasekera
      Mark Bohr
      John Chen
      Vivek De
      An Steegan
      Giovanni De Micheli
      Charles Dennison
      Jeffrey Gealow

      Bruce Gieseke
      Raj Jammy

      Stephen Kosonocky
      Ming-Ren Lin
      Un-Ku Moon

      Katsu Nakamura
      Tak Ning
      Klaus Schruefer
      
David Scott
      
Hans Stork

      H.S. Philip Wong

      Jason Woo
      Texas Instruments
      Intel Corp.
      nVidia
      Intel Corp.
      
IMEC
      EPFL
      Micron Technology
      Analog Devices

      Intermolecular

      AMD Ft. Collins
      GLOBALFOUNDRIES
      Oregon State University
      Analog Devices, Inc.
      IBM
      Intel Mobile Communications
      
DBS
      ON Semiconductor
      Stanford Univ.
      Univ. of California, Los Angeles

  • JSAP Executive Committee

    Chair

      Takayasu Sakurai The University of Tokyo

    Members

      Toshiro Hiramoto
      Dai Hisamoto
      Satoshi Inaba

      Hideyuki Kabuo
      Toshihiko Kanayama
      Kinam Kim
      T
      adahiro Kuroda
      Chih-Yuan (C.Y.) Lu

      Yoshio Masubichi
      Akira Matsuzawa
      Masayuki Mizuno
      Yasunori Mochizuki
      Tohru Mogami
      Masato Motomura

      Shin’ichiro Mutoh
      Naoki Nagashima
      Makoto Nagata

      Yoshinobu Nakagome
      Masaaki Niwa
      Yoshifumi Okamoto
      Toshihiro Sugii
      Jack Y.-C. Sun
      Hirotaka Tamura
      Akira Toriumi
      Hitoshi Wakabayashi
      Kazuo Yano
      Hoi-Jun Yoo
      The University of Tokyo
      Hitachi, Ltd.
      Toshiba Electronics Korea Corporation

      Panasonic Corporation
      AIST
      Samsung Display Co.
      Keio University
      Macronix International Co., Ltd.
      Toshiba Corporation

      Tokyo Institute of Technology
      Renesas Electronics Corporation
      NEC Corporation

      PETRA
      Hokkaido University

      NTT Corporation
      Sony Corporation

      Kobe University
      Renesas Electronics Corporation
      Tohoku University
      Panasonic Corporation
      LEAP
      TSMC
      Fujitsu Laboratories, LTD.
      The University of Tokyo
      Tokyo Institute of Technology
      Hitachi Ltd.
      KAIST

  • NAE Symposium Officers and Program Committee - Technology

    NAE Symposium Officers - Technology

      Symposium Chair
      Program Chair
      Secretary
      Publicity Chair
      Short Course Chair

       

      Klaus Schruefer
      Raj Jammy
      Mukesh Khare
      Chorng-Ping Chang
      Geoffrey Yeap
       

       

        Intel Mobile Communications
      Intermolecular
      IBM
      Applied Materials Inc.
      Qualcomm

       

       

    Chair

      Raj Jammy Intermolecular

    Members

      Johann Alsmeier
      Reza Arghavani
      Karen Attenborough
      Larry Bair

      Chorng-Ping Chang
      Jon Cheek
      Thomas Ernst
      Adrian Ionescu
      Herve Jaouen

      Malgorzata Jurzak
      Jack Kavalieros
      Mukesh Khare
      Boon-Khim Liew
      Witek Maszara
      Carlos Mazure
      Manoj Mehrotra
      Tomas Palacios
      Sayeef Salahuddin
      Luca Selmi

      Geoffrey Yeap
      Greg Yeric
      John Zahurak
      SanDisk
      LAM Research
      NXP Central R&D
      AMD

      Applied Materials, Inc.
      Freescale
      CEA-LETI, MINATEC
      Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
      STMicroelectronics
      IMEC
      Intel Corp.
      IBM
      nVidia
      GLOBALFOUNDERIES
      Soitec Group
      Texas Instruments, Inc.
      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      Univ. of California, Berkeley
      Univ. of Udine

      Qualcomm Inc.
      ARM
      Micron Technology Inc.

  • NAE Symposium Officers and Program Committee - Circuits

    NAE Symposium Officers - Circuits

      Symposium Chair
      Program Chair
      Publicity Chair
      Secretary
      Short Course Chair
      Rump Session Chair
      Electronic Publication Chair
      Vivek De
      Jeffrey Gealow
      Gunther Lehmann
      Andreia Cathelin
      Ichiro Fujimori
      Ken Chang
      Geert Van der Plas
      Intel Corp.
      Analog Devices
      Infineon Technologies
      STMicroelectronics
      Broadcom Corporation
      Xilinx Inc.
      Imec

    Chair

      Jeffrey Gealow Analog Devices

    Members

      Elad Alon
      Mark Bauer
      Henk Jan Bergveld
      Tom Burd
      Andreia Cathelin
      Tony Chan Carusone
      Vikas Chandra
      Ken Chang
      Lik Cheng
      Yun Chiu
      John DeBrosse
      Steven Dillen
      Cyrille Dray
      Eric Fogleman
      Ichiro Fujimori
      Gordon Gammie
      Brian P Ginsburg
      Fatih Hamzaoglu
      Pavan Kumar Hanumolu
      Nasser Kurd
      Gunther Lehmann
      Jennifer Lloyd
      Reza Navid

      Jeff L Nilles
      Jeyanandh Paramesh
      Srini Sridhara
      Dennis Sylvester

      Jim Tschanz
      Geert Van der Plas
      Nick Van Helleputte
      Kathy Wilcox
      Engling Yeo
      UC Berkeley
      Micron
      NXP Semiconductors
      Advanced Micro Devices
      STMicroelectronics
      University of Toronto
      ARM
      Xilinx Inc
      Oracle
      University of Texas at Dallas
      IBM
      Qualcomm
      Intel Mobile Communications

      MaxLinear
      Broadcom Corporation
      MediaTek USA
      Texas Instruments
      Intel Corporation
      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      Intel Corporation
      Infineon Technologies AG
      Analog Devices
      Rambus Inc.
      Texas Instruments

      Carnegie Mellon University
      Texas Instruments
      University of Michigan

      Intel Corporation
      Imec
      imec
      AMD
      Marvell

  • JFE Symposium Officers and Program Committee - Technology

    JFE Symposium Officers - Technology

      Symposium Co-Chair:
      Program Co-Chair
      Publicity Chair
      Treasurer
      Secretary
      Short Course Organizer
      Toshiro Hiramoto
      Satoshi Inaba
      Shinya Yamakawa
      Meishoku Masahara
      Katsura Miyashita
      Ken Uchida
      The University of Tokyo
      Toshiba Electronics Korea Corporation
      Sony Corporation
      AIST
      Toshiba Corporation
      Keio University

    Chair

      Satoshi Inaba Toshiba Electronics Korea Corporation

    Members

      Yasushi Akasaka
      Siyoung Choi
      Steve S. Chung
      Byoung Hun Lee
      Hang-Ting Lue
      Meishoku Masahara
      Hideharu Miyake
      Katsura Miyashita
      Hiroki Morimura
      Jae Sung Roh
      Nobuyuki Sugii
      Munehiro Tada
      Shinichi Takagi
      Takuji Tanaka
      Tetsu Tanaka
      Kenji Tateiwa
      Ken Uchida
      Clement H. Wann
      Shinya Yamakawa
      Tomohiro Yamashita
      Yee-Chia Yeo
      Tri-Rung Yew
      Tokyo Electron Taiwan Ltd.
      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
      National Chiao Tung University
      Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
      Macronix International Co., Intl.
      AIST
      Elpida
      Toshiba Corporation
      NTT Microsystem Integration Labs
      SKhynix Inc.
      LEAP
      LEAP
      The University of Tokyo
      Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd.
      Tohoku University
      Panasonic Corporation
      Keio University
      TSMC
      Sony Corporation
      Renesas Electronics Corporation
      National University of Singapore
      UMC

  • JFE Symposium Officers and Program Committee - Circuits

      Symposium Co-Chair
      Program Co-Chair
      Secretary & Publicity Co-Chair
      Short Course Co-Chair
      Rump Session Co-Chair
      Publication Chair
      Local Arrangements
      Hideyuki Kabuo
      Masato Motomura
      Makoto Ikeda
      Makoto Takamiya
      Koichi Nose
      Hiroyuki Nakamoto
      Yoshihisa Kato
      Panasonic Corp.
      Hokkaido University
      The University of Tokyo
      The University of Tokyo
      Renesas Electronics Corp.
      Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
      Panasonic Corp.

    Chair

      Masato Motomura Hokkaido University

    Members

      Kenichi Agawa
      Fumio Arakawa
      SeongHwan Cho
      Shiro Dosho
      Koji Fujii
      Masanori Hariyama
      Masanori Hashimoto
      Makoto Ikeda
      Hiroki Ishikuro
      Masao Ito
      Yoshihisa Kato
      Ravishankar Kuppuswamy
      Chen-Yi Lee
      Jri Lee
      Nicky Lu
      Noriyuki Miura
      Hiroyuki Nakamoto
      Hiromasa Noda
      Koichi Nose
      Bing Sheu
      Yun-Shiang Shu
      Jae-Yoon Sim
      Kyomin Sohn
      Kazuhisa Sunaga
      Makoto Takamiya
      Ken Takeuchi
      Yasumoto Tomita

      Hayato Wakabayashi
      Masanao Yamaoka
      Hiroyuki Yamauchi
      Changsik Yoo
      C. Patrick Yue
       
      Toshiba Corporation
      Nagoya University
      KAIST
      Panasonic Corporation
      NTT Microsystem Integration Labs
      Tohoku University
      Osaka University
      The University of Tokyo
      Keio University
      Renesas Electronics Corporation
      Panasonic Corporation
      Intel Corporation
      National Chiao Tung University
      National Taiwan University
      Etron Technology, Inc.
      Kobe University
      Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
      Micron Memory Japan
      Renesas Electronics Corporation
      TSMC
      MediaTek, Inc.
      POSTECH
      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
      NEC Corporation
      The University of Tokyo
      Chuo University

      Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
      Sony Corporation
      Hitachi, Ltd.
      Fukuoka Institute of Technology
      Hanyang University
      Hong Kong University of Science and Technology