[comp.lsi] Call for Papers, Advanced Research in VLSI Conference, March 1991

jean@HARICOT.UCSC.EDU (Jean McKnight) (02/23/90)

		First call for papers 
	Advanced Research in VLSI Conference 
	University of California, Santa Cruz
	  	  26-28 March 1991

The field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) involves the design,
manufacture, and use of systems constructed from highly complex
integrated circuits.  The field comprises a number of interrelated
technical disciplines including semiconductor devices and processing,
circuit and system design, computer-aided tools and design automation,
and systems architecture.  The most successful advances in any of these
areas come from an understanding of the other related areas.  The
Advanced Research in VLSI Conference has always been a
multi-disciplinary conference, with papers covering all of the above
fields.

This conference is the thirteenth in a series that has been held at
Caltech, MIT, University of North Carolina, and Stanford.  This time it
will be held at the University of California in Santa Cruz and
co-sponsored by U.C.~Berkeley.  As in the past, the main goal of the
conference is to promote interaction among researchers in the various
disciplines listed above.  However, in 1991, we would like to focus the
conference around the main theme of ``Systems Design and Integration.''

We thus welcome in particular original research papers describing
theory or practice relating to one or more of the following areas:

Systems:  Architectures that cater to the special characteristics of
	VLSI technology and packaging, systems on a chip; systems 
	integration issues such as partitioning, interfaces, clocking, 
	and synchronization; fault tolerance, simulation, testing, and 
	formal verification methods.

Theory:  Models of computation suitable for implementation in VLSI;
	massively parallel computational algorithms; metrics for 
	evaluating the complexity of algorithms or systems;

Tools:  Systems modeling tools that permit experimentation with
	different partitionings and architectures; languages to specify 
	or describe systems interfaces, methods and tools for behavioral
	synthesis, design data bases and data management frameworks.

Technology:  Innovative sensor and actuator devices and circuits;
	integration of analog and digital circuits; power consumption, 
	distribution, and cooling; wafer-scale integration and 
	packaging.

But, as always, we look forward in particular to papers presenting
exciting new ideas on any aspect of VLSI that may not fit into a
specific category and which may even open up new problem domains for
people to work on.  The conference is not intended as a showcase for
established systems and CAD tools, but as a forum for people with new
ideas.  We are interested in sparking the imaginations of the top
researchers in VLSI.

The breadth of the conference guarantees that for any particular paper
there will be both experts and novices in the audience.  It is thus
essential that papers be presented with enough background to be
understood by the majority of the attendees and with enough exciting
new material to please the experts.

Send 5 copies of draft papers (not to exceed 15 pages) by November 1,
1990 to
	Prof. Carlo H. Sequin 
	University of California 
	CS Division, 529B Evans Hall 
	Berkeley, CA   94720