Abbrevation
VLSI Circuits
City
Kyoto
Country
Japan
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Abstract

The 2013 Symposium on VLSI Circuits will provide designers of integrated circuits an opportunity to meet and present important new works on all aspects of VLSI circuits&#046; The 013 Symposium on VLSI Technology (please see the reverse side) will be held at the same location with two days of overlap&#046; A single registration allows participants to attend both of the Symposia, and offers unique opportunities to interact and synergize on topics of joint interest&#046;<br>The scope of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits includes innovations and advances in following areas&#046;<br>Special focus will be placed on VLSI systems and solutions for smarter society&#046;<br>&#8211; RF and wireless communication circuits and architecture, including CMOS RF and mm&#8211;wave, and digital implementations<br>&#8211; Wireline transceiver and I/O design, spanning chip&#8211;to&#8211;chip to long&#8211;reach applications<br>&#8211; Digital VLSI circuits and system techniques for processor, memory, and complex SOC architectures and implementations<br>&#8211; Clock generation and distribution for high frequency digital and mixed&#8211;signal applications<br>&#8211; Analog and mixed signal circuits such as data converters, PLL, amplifiers, filters, and sensing FE<br>&#8211; Memory circuits and architectures for SRAM, DRAM, and non&#8211;volatile, including emerging memories<br>&#8211; Power management technologies, including circuits for voltage regulators and voltage references, VLSI systems for battery<br>management, power saving, energy harvesting, and renewable energy<br>&#8211; Application oriented circuits and VLSI systems, including biomedical and healthcare, electric vehicles, power grids, and<br>sensor networks<br>JOINT CIRCUITS AND TECHNOLOGY FOCUS SESSIONS<br>Joint circuit and technology focus sessions will be offered in the following special topics of joint interest&#046; Paper submissions highlighting major innovations and advances in circuits, designs, tools and methodologies in these areas are strongly encouraged&#046; The scope includes, but is not limited to the following area:<br>• Design in scaled technologies: scaling of analog and mixed&#8211;signal design based on novel device and interconnect materials and<br>structures<br>• Design enablement: design for manufacturing and robustness, process&#8211;design co&#8211;optimization for ultra&#8211;low voltage and power,<br>on&#8211;die measurement and monitoring of variability and reliability<br>• Memory technology and design: embedded and stand&#8211;alone SRAM, DRAM, Flash, PCRAM, RRAM, MRAM, etc&#046;<br>• 3D (TSV) and heterogeneous integration: power and thermal management, inter&#8211;chip communication, SiP architectures and<br>applications&#046;<br>Papers will be considered on the basis of originality, innovation and advancing the field&#046; Implementation in silicon and<br>measured results will be considered favorably in the ratings&#046;<br>