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