IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETYANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON VLSICALL FOR PAPERSwww.isvlsi2018.org

Hong Kong, China

The Symposium explores emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts covering a broad range oftopics in the area of VLSI: from VLSI circuits, systems and design methods, to system level designand system-on-chip issues, to bringing VLSI methods to new areas and technologies like nano- andmolecular devices, hardware security, etc. Future design methodologies are also one of the keytopics at the Symposium, as well as new EDA tools to support them. Over three decades theSymposium has been a unique forum promoting multidisciplinary research and new visionaryapproaches in the area of VLSI, bringing together leading scientists and researchers from academiaand industry. The conference proceedings will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.Selected high quality papers from ISVLSI 2018 will be further considered for two Journal SpecialIssues: 1) IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (impact factor 2.485), and 2) IEEE ConsumerElectronics Magazine (impact factor 1.153). The Symposium has established a reputation inbringing together well-known international scientists as invited speakers; the emphasis on highquality will continue at this and future editions of the Symposium.

Contributions are sought in the following areas1) Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits (AMS): Analog/mixed-signal circuits, RF and communication

circuits, adaptive circuits, interconnects, VLSI aspects of sensor and sensor network.2) Computer-Aided Design and Verification (CAD): Hardware/software co-design, logic and

behavioral synthesis, simulation and formal verification, physical design, signal integrity, powerand thermal analysis, statistical approaches.

3) Digital Circuits and FPGA based Designs (DCF): Digital circuits, chaos/neural/fuzzy-logiccircuits, high speed/low-power circuits, energy efficient circuits, near and sub-threshold circuits,memories, FPGA designs, FPGA based systems.

4) Emerging and Post-CMOS Technologies (EPT): Nanotechnology, molecular electronics, quantumdevices, optical computing, spin-based computing, biologically-inspired computing, CNT, SET,RTD, QCA, reversible logic, and CAD tools for emerging technology devices and circuits.

5) System Design and Security (SDS): Structured and Custom Design methodologies,microprocessors/micro-architectures for performance and low power, embedded processors,analog/digital/mixed-signal systems, NoC, power and temperature aware designs, Hardwaresecurity, Cryptography, watermarking, and IP protection, TRNG and security oriented circuits,PUF circuits.

6) Testing, Reliability, and Fault-Tolerance (TRF): Analog/digital/mixed-signal testing, design fortestability and reliability, online testing techniques, static and dynamic defect- and fault-recoverability, and variation aware design.

Paper Submission DeadlinesPaper Submission Deadline: March 4, 2018Acceptance Notification: April 20, 2018Submission of Final Version: May 10, 2018Special Session Proposal Deadline: March 11, 2018

The Symposium Program will include contributed papers and speakers invited by the ProgramCommittee as well as a poster session. The keynotes, special sessions and Student Research Forumare planned as well. Authors are invited to submit full-length, original, unpublished papers. Toenable blind review, the author list should be omitted from the main document. Initial submissionsto the conference are limited to six pages in PDF format.

General Chairs■ Wei Zhang,Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China■ Jason Xue,City University of Hong Kong, China■ Zili Shao,Hong Kong Polytechnic University

TPC Chairs■ Hai Li,Duke University, USA■ Yu Wang,Tsinghua University, China■ Wujie Wen,Florida International Univ., USA

Special Session Chairs■ Bei Yu,The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China■ Yuan-Hao Chang,Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Web Chair■ Theocharis Theocharides,University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Student Research Forum Chairs■ Anupam Chattopadhyay,Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore■ Zheng Wang,Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Science

Publication Chairs■ Mahdi Nikdast,Colorado State University, USA■ Chenchen Liu, Clarkson University, USA

Publicity Chairs■ Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China■ Muhammad Shafique,Vienna University of Technology, Austria■ Jingtong Hu,University of Pittsburgh, USA■ Masaaki Kondo,The University of Tokyo, Japan■ Chun-Yi Lee,National Tsinghua University, Taiwan■ Dhruva Ghai,Oriental University, India

Financial Chair■ Duo Liu, Chongqing University, China

Registration Chair■ Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore

Local Arrangement Chair■ Nan Guan, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong■ Ray Chak-Chung Cheung, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Industrial Liaison Chairs■ Wei Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China■ Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Tech., Germany■ Zhihong Wu, Tongji University, China

July 8-11, 2018

IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON VLSICALL FOR PAPERS www.ieee-isvlsi.org

General Chairs• Hao Zheng, U. of South Florida• Deming Chen, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TPC Chairs• Srinivas Katkoori, U. of South

Florida• Sandip Ray, U. of Florida

Special Session Chairs• Wei Zhang, Hong Kong U of Science and Technology

• Selcuk Kose, U of Rochester• Michael Huebner, Brandenburg U of Technology

Finance Chairs•Mehran Kermani, U. of South

Florida• Kanad Basu, U. ofTexas, Dallas

Registration Chairs• Domenic Forte, U. of Florida• Yao Chen, ADSC, Singapore

Web Chairs• Theocharis Theocharides, U. of Cyprus

Publication Chairs• Jingtong Hu, U. of Pittsburgh

Student Research Forum Chairs• Yu Wang, Tsinghua U.• Jeyavijayan Rajendran, U. of Texas Dallas

Publicity Chairs• Aida Todri-Sanial, CNRS-LIRMM

• Deliang Fan, Arizona State U• Yajun Ha, Shanghai Tech U, Cn• Amit Joshi, MNIT, India• Robert Karam, USF

Research Demo Chairs• Jeff Goeders, BYU• Yingyan Lin, Rice U.

Industry Liaison Chairs• Jingtong Hu, U. of PittsburghSteering CommitteeJürgen Becker (Chair)Saraju Mohanty (Vice-Chair)Hai (Helen) Li, Lionel Torres,Michael Hübner, Nikos Voros,Ricardo Reis, Sandip Kundu,Sanjukta Bhanja, Susmita Sur-Kolay, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

The 2021 Symposium explores emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts covering a broad range of topics in the area of VLSI: from VLSI circuits, systems and design methods, to system level design issues, to bringing VLSI design to new areas and technologies such as nano- and molecular devices, security, artificial intelligence, and Internet-of-Things, etc. Future design methodologies and new EDA tools are also a key topic at the Symposium. Over three decades the Symposium has been a unique forum promoting multidisciplinary research and new visionary approaches in the area of VLSI, bringing together leading scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The ISVLSI proceedings will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected high quality papers will be further invited for submission to a journal special issue. The Symposium has established a reputation in bringing together well-known international scientists as invited speakers. The emphasis on high quality will continue at this and future editions of the Symposium.

Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2021 Acceptance Notification: April 4, 2021 Submission of Final Version: May 2, 2021 Special Session Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2021

• Circuits, Reliability, and Fault-Tolerance (CRT): analog/mixed-signal circuits design and testing, RF and communication circuits, adaptive circuits and interconnects, design for testability, online testing techniques, static and dynamic defect- and fault- recoverability, variation aware design, VLSI aspects of sensor and sensor network.

• Computer-Aided Design and Verification (CAD): hardware/software co-design, logic and behavioral synthesis, simulation and formal verification, physical design, signal integrity, power and thermal analysis, statistical approaches.

• Digital Circuits and FPGA based Designs (DCF): digital circuits, chaos/neural/fuzzy-logic circuits, high speed/low-power circuits, energy efficient circuits, near and sub-threshold circuits, memories, FPGA designs, FPGA based systems.

• Emerging and Post-CMOS Technologies (EPT): nanotechnology, molecular electronics, quantum devices, optical computing, spin-based computing, biologically-inspired computing, CNT, SET, RTD, QCA, reversible logic, and CAD tools for emerging technology devices and circuits.

• System Design and Security (SDS): structured and custom design methodologies, microprocessors/micro-architectures for performance and low power, embedded processors, analog/digital/mixed-signal systems, NoC, power and temperature aware designs, hardware security, cryptography, watermarking, and IP protection, TRNG and security-oriented circuits, PUF circuits.

• VLSI for Applied and Future Computing (AFC): Neuromorphic and brain-inspired computing, quantum computing, circuits and architectures for machine learning and artificial intelligence, methodologies for on-chip learning, deep learning acceleration techniques, applications for and use-cases of learning systems, sensor and sensor network, electronics for Internet of Things and smart medical devices.

The symposium program will include technical sessions by contributed papers and invited speakers by the Program Committee as well as a poster session. The keynotes, panels, special sessions, research demo sessions, and Student Research Forum are planned as well. Authors are invited to submit full-length, original, unpublished manuscripts in IEEE proceedings format (up to 6 pages). To enable blind review, the author information should be omitted from the submission. The manuscript as a single PDF is to be submitted online at https://edas.info/27556

July 7 – 9, 2021Virtual

(Tampa, FL, USA)

Contributions are sought in the following areas

Important Dates

Selected papers from ISVLSI 2021 will be invited for submission to a journal special issue. The selection process is based on reviewer feedback and quality of conference presentation