jean@LUNA.UCSC.EDU (Jean McKnight) (06/29/90)
First Call for Papers ADVANCED RESEARCH IN V L S I CONFERENCE MARCH 25-27, 1991 University of California, Santa Cruz (co-sponsored by U.C. Berkeley) This conference is the thirteenth in a series that has been held at Caltech, MIT, University of North Carolina, and Stanford. As in the past, the main goal of the conference is to promote interaction among researchers in the various disciplines. VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) involves the design, manufacture, and use of systems constructed from complex integrated circuits. It includes semiconductor devices and processing, circuit and system design, computer-aided tools and design automation, and systems architecture. SYSTEMS DESIGN AND INTEGRATION is the special focus of the 1991 conference. Original research papers are especially welcome on: SYSTEMS: Architectures using characteristics of VLSI technology and packaging, systems on a chip; systems integration issues: partitioning, interfaces, clocking, and synchronization; fault tolerance, simulation, testing, and formal verification methods. THEORY: Models of computation for VLSI; massively parallel algorithms; metrics for evaluating the complexity of algorithms or systems; TOOLS: Systems modeling tools for experimenting with architectures; languages to specify or describe interfaces, methods and tools for behavioral synthesis, design data bases and data management frameworks. TECHNOLOGY: Sensor and actuator devices and circuits; integration of analog and digital circuits; power consumption, distribution, and cooling; wafer-scale integration and packaging. As always, papers are welcome on all VLSI fields, especially on new ideas outside specific categories. The conference is not a showcase for established systems and CAD tools, but a forum for new ideas. Papers presented must have enough background to reach novices and enough new material to please experts. The FIRM deadline for submission of papers is OCTOBER 15, 1990. Authors will be notified by November 26, 1990. Camera-ready manuscripts are due December 29, 1990. Send 5 copies of draft papers (not to exceed 15 pages) by October 15 to: Prof. Carlo H. Sequin University of California CS Division, 529B Evans Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 For more information about the conference, contact the local arrangements chairman, Kevin Karplus (internet : karplus@ce.ucsc.edu), or Jean McKnight (408/459-2303). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Carlo Sequin, UCB, Berkeley Academia: Don Bouldin, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville William Dally, MIT, Cambridge Carl Ebeling, U. of Washington, Seattle Tracy Larrabee, UCSC, Santa Cruz Alain Martin, Caltech, Pasadena Teresa Meng, SU, Stanford Amar Mukherjee, U. of Central Florida, Orlando Slawomir Pilarski, SFU, Vancouver, Canada Dan Siewiorek, CMU, Pittsburgh Yuval Tamir, UCLA, Los Angeles John Wawrzynek, UCB, Berkeley Industry: Bryan Ackland, AT&T, Holmdel Ron Arps, IBM Research, San Jose Alan Bell, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto Pat Gelsinger, Intel, Santa Clara Marc Hannah, SGI, Mountain View Norman Jouppi, DECWRL, Palo Alto Ulrich Lauther, Siemens, Munich, Germany Dick Lyon, Apple Computer, Cupertino Al Marston, Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Osamu Tomisawa, Mitsubishi, Itami, Japan John Wharton, Applications Research, Sunnyvale _______________________