CSCAS 2010, Shanghai, China

The China Symposium on Circuits and Systems (CSCAS) is the premier networking forum of leading researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems in China. The 22nd CSCAS, sponsored by the China Circuits and Systems Society and supported by Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan university; Tongji University and Shanghai Jiaotong University will be held 15-18 October 2010 in Shanghai, China at Fudan University.

The Symposium will focus on circuits and systems employing nano devices and circuit fabrics and their implementation cost, switching speed, energy efficiency, and reliability. Contact: bohu@fudan.edu.cn


APWCCS/IWCFTA 2010, Kunming, CHina

The 2010 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Chaos Control and Synchronization (APWCCS) and the 2010 International Workshop on Chaos-Fractals Theories and Applications (IWCFTA) will be jointly held in Kunming, China, in October 29-31, 2010. The main purpose of APWCCS is to bring together leading researchers and experts worldwide, especially those from the Asia-Pacific region, to further promote and develop the cutting-edge research on chaos control and synchronization theory and its engineering applications. IWCFTA aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, researchers and engineers to present the state-of-the-art advancements in the studies of chaos-fractal theories and their applications to complex systems, cryptography, information processing, multimedia, communications, biology, economics and finance.

Websites: APWCCS 2010 and IWCFTA 2010.


IEEE ICECS 2010, Athens


The 17th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2010) will be held in Athens on the 12th to 15th December 2010.

The IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society in region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa). It presents design methodologies, techniques and experimental results in emerging electronics, circuits and systems topics. ICECS 2010 will include tutorials, regular sessions (lecture and poster), Special sessions and exhibitions.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts reporting original work, as well as proposals for special sessions and tutorials, in all areas of electronics, circuits and systems. While the conference proceedings will be available on IEEEXplore worldwide, a special issue consisting of the best presented papers will be published in The Analogue Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing International Journal. Visit the conference website for more details.


LASCAS 2011, Bogota, Columbia

LASCAS 2011 goal is to be the International Symposium of IEEE Circuits and Systems in Latin America. Its second edition will take place in Bogota, Colombia. Bogota is a large city with more than 7 million of inhabitants. It is located 2600 meters over the sea level and surrounded by beautiful Andes Mountains, providing a special and unique environment.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission: October 3, 2010

Special Session Proposal: October 3, 2010

Notification of acceptance: November 14, 2010

Camera-ready: November 28, 2010

See http://www.lascas.org/ for details.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS & INVITATIONS


Upcoming Conferences

IEEE ISCAS 2011, Rio de Janeiro

The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the world's premier networking forum of leading researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems.

ISCAS 2011, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and supported by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 15 May to 18 May 2011.

The Symposium will focus on Circuits and Systems for Sustainable Environment, employing nanotechnology, sensor arrays, mobile processing, and energy-efficient systems, aiming at the natural equilibrium of planet earth.

The ISCAS 2011 will include oral and poster sessions, tutorials given by experts on state-of-the-art topics, and special sessions, with the aim of complementing the regular program with topics of particular interest to the circuits and systems community that cut across and beyond disciplines traditionally represented at ISCAS.

The conference website: http://www.iscas2011.org


IEEE SOCC 2010, Las Vegas

The SoC Conference provides a premier forum for sharing advances in SoC technologies and applications in the areas of digital systems, circuit architectures, design methods, tools and automation, manufacturing
and test, and emerging MEMS and nano technologies.
 
The 23rd SOCC will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in September 27-29, 2010, and will offer three days of technical papers, technical workshops, and a vendor exhibition. Please check our website regularly for updates: http://www.ieee-socc.org


NOLTA 2010, Krakow


The International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications 2010 (NOLTA 2010) will be held at MCK (International Cultural Center), Krakow, Poland, September 5–8, 2010. The objective of the symposium is to provide a forum for exchange of the latest results related to nonlinear theory and its applications. Papers describing original results in all aspects of nonlinear theory and its applications are invited.

Deadline for Special Session proposals: Feb 15

Notification of acceptance for Special Sessions: Mar 1

Deadline for submission of full papers for Regular and Special Sessions: Apr 1

Notification of acceptance for Regular and Special Session Papers: Jun 1

Deadline for submission of all camera-ready papers: Jun 15

Details can be found in the conference website.


PrimeAsia 2010, Shanghai

The Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PrimeAsia) is a new initiative of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for engaging students. It aims to provide opportunities for postgraduate students to present their research works and to interact with people in the research community and industry. PrimeAsia 2010, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, will be held from 22 to 24 September 2010 in Shanghai, China, a city hosting WorldExpo2010 from May to October 2010. Papers in PrimeAsia2010 will be presented by postgraduate students, experienced people from academia and industry are warmly invited to attend, in order to create a stimulating environment for favoring exchange of knowledge and mentoring of young researchers. See website for details.


IWCSN 2010, Beijing


The International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks 2010 (IWCSN 2010) will be held in Beijing from 25-27 September 2010.  This workshop focuses on complex systems and complex networks, multi-agent systems, systems biology, sensor networks, communication networks, networked control systems, and their applications. Invited lectures will be presented in the workshop.

Please check out the workshop website for details.

Additional information about this series of workshop can be found in the workshop archive.


SM2ACD 2010, Gammarth, Tunisia

The International Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods, Modeling and Applications to Circuit Design (SM2ACD) is a flagship workshop in the realms of symbolic circuit analysis methods, modelling and optimization techniques of analog and mixed circuits.

SM2ACD 2010 will be held next October 5-6, 2010 in Gammarth, Tunisia. In addition, a pre-conference program and tutorial sessions will be offered on October 4, 2010.

SM2ACD 2010 is technically co-sponsored by the CAS Tunisia Chapter and the CEDA Tunisia Chapter.

Visit the workshop website for more details.

 

IEEE CAS-FEST 2010

December 12, 2010, Athens, Greece


CAS-FEST 2010 Topic: VARIATION-AWARE DESIGN FOR NANOSCALE VLSI CIRCUITS

Nanometer-scale CMOS technologies are plagued by significant variations and these are projected to grow more critical in the coming years. Variability is steadily eating into design margins and yield, so that mainstream current-day methodologies will be unsustainable in the future. These variations may arise from fluctuations attributed to the manufacturing process (e.g., drifts in channel length, oxide thickness, threshold voltage, or doping concentration), which affect the circuit yield, as well as variations in the environmental operating conditions (e.g., supply voltage or temperature), or due to reliability-driven circuit aging during the life of the chip. These effects can cause unacceptable alterations in circuit performance parameters, and reliable variation-tolerant design is imperative. These variations affect analog as well as digital circuits, and new design techniques and methodologies must be developed in all domains.

A number of potential approaches are available for overcoming these effects, ranging from presilicon design to postsilicon fixes, designed to make integrated circuits resilient to variations, and this field remains an area of active research today. Ingredients of variation-aware solutions include new analysis techniques, novel hardware approaches, and new optimizations. Solutions must envelop all layers of design abstraction, from the system level to the device level, and cross-layer optimizations must be developed to ensure appropriate handoff within a design flow.

The goal of CAS-FEST is to bring together the research community in this area under a single roof for an exposition of state-of-the-art techniques, nascent research, and future directions in this field, promoting a better understanding and improved cross-fertilization of ideas.


TOPICS

Topics covered by the meeting include, but are not limited to:

  1. •Modeling and simulation in the presence of on-chip variability

  2. •Variation-aware circuit synthesis

  3. •Statistical timing and power analysis

  4. •Digitally assisted/enhanced analog circuits

  5. •Reliability issues in nanoscale circuits

  6. •Power grid analysis and optimization

  7. •Thermally-aware design

  8. •Soft errors and radiation hardening

  9. •Layout issues in design for manufacturability

  10. •Fault tolerance and dependability

  11. •Variation-tolerant analog circuit design

  12. •Test issues in the presence of variation

  13. •Resilient circuits


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission September 30, 2010

Notification of acceptance November 1, 2010

Meeting December 12, 2010


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs

Enrico Macii, CASS VP-Publications

Vojin Oklobdzija, CASS VP-Technical Activities

Thanos Stouraitis, CASS VP-Conferences

Technical Program Chair

Sachin S. Sapatnekar


MORE INFORMATION: www.ieee-cas-fest.org