[HiPEAC-announce] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: VLSI-SOC 2008

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC 2008
16th International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration

October 13-15, 2008, Rhodes Island, Greece
http://vlsi.ee.duth.gr/vlsisoc-2008/
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IMPORTANT DATES

July 25, 2008       Author/Presenter Registration Deadline
September 7, 2008   Early Registration Deadline   (on-site registration is
also possible)
October 13-15, 2008  IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SOC 2008, Rhodes, Island Greece
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ABOUT VLSI-SoC 2008
VLSI-SoC 2008 is the 16th in a series of international conferences sponsored
by IFIP TC 10 Working Group 10.5 and IEEE CEDA that explores the
state-of-the-art and the new developments in the field of Very Large Scale
Integration Systems and their designs. Previous Conferences have taken place
in Edinburgh, Trondheim, Tokyo, Vancouver, Munich, Grenoble, Gramado,
Lisbon, Montpellier, Darmstadt, Perth, Nice and Atlanta. The purpose of the
Conference is to provide a platform, to exchange ideas and to present
industrial and research results in the fields of VLSI/ULSI Systems, VLSI CAD
and Microelectronic Design and Test.

The technical program is available at
http://vlsi.ee.duth.gr/vlsisoc-2008/program/program.htm. This year we
received 193 papers, which is a record number of submissions and the overall
acceptance rate (regular and poster paper) is about 50%. The program
includes 14 regular sessions with 56 oral presentations, 4 special sessions,
2 poster paper sessions with 44 papers and a Ph.D. Forum session. The
sessions cover the following topics: Analog Circuit Design, CAD Tools,
Reconfigurable Systems, Building Blocks for Embedded Systems, Embedded
Systems: Memory exploration and optimization, New Devices for
bioapplications, Testing, DSP  Implementations, Video processing, New
Devices and Modeling, Low Power Design, Digital Architecture design, Digital
Circuit Design, Physical Design, "3D integration" (special session),
"Subthreshold Architectures and Circuits" (special session),
"European-funded projects" (invited session), and Wearable Electronics
(special session).
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Keynote Speakers

Prof. Eby Friedman, Univ. of Rochester, USA 
Keynote Talk Title: "Interconnect-Based Design Challenges in High
Performance Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits and Systems"

Dr. Roberto Zafalon, STMicrolectronics, Italy
Keynote Talk Title: "CLEAN: Leakage Aware Design for Next Generation's SOCs"

Prof. Ahmed Jerraya, CEA/LETI, France
Keynote Talk Title: "Design and Programming strategies for MPSoC"
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Special Sessions 

"3D integration: how far are we from the next leap forward in system
integration?"
Organizer: Trevor Karlson, IMEC, Antonis Papanikolaou, IMEC, Belgium

"Subthreshold Architectures and Circuits"
Organizer: Prof. Yusuf Leblebici, EPFL, Switzerland

 "European-funded Research and Development Projects: Present and Future"
Organizers: Georgi Kuzmanov, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
and D. Soudris, Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Greece

"Wearable Electronics"
Organizer: Assoc. Professor Annalisa Bonfiglio, University of Cagliari,
Italy

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GENERAL CHAIR
Prof. Dimitrios Soudris, Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Greece

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Prof. Christian Piguet, CSEM, Switzerland 
Prof. Thanos Stouraitis, Univ. of Patras, Greece

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SPONSORS
VLSI-SoC 2008 is kindly supported and sponsored by the following companies
and institutions:

 + IFIP WG 10.5
 + IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) 
 + ACM SIGDA
 + Democritus University of Thrace
 + Corallia Clusters Initiative (Grand Sponsor)
 + Hellenic Semiconductor Initiative Association
 + Intracom-Telecom S.A.
 + Springer