Sponsors

Organized by
VSI
VLSI Society of India

Industry Sponsors
Interra    Interra    TI India
  Magma Design Automation  NXP Semiconductors  ARM
Emerging Memory Technologies  TranSwitch
SemiTracks    Synopsys

In cooperation with
IRP, Calcutta University    Jadavpur University
Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, Calcutta University
Dept. of E & TCE, Jadavpur University
ISI, Kolkata   IEEE, Kolkata
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Kolkata School of VLSI Technology
Bengal Engg. and Science University
IEEE Kolkata

Tracks in VDAT 2007

High-Level Design will focus on System Level Design and Synthesis, Microarchitecture, Embedded Systems, Co-Design, Core-Based Designs, High-Level Synthesis, Logic Synthesis, Memory Synthesis, and FPGA Synthesis.

Physical Design and VLSI Technology will focus on Physical Design and Technology and Process-Related Aspects of Integrated Circuits. It will also discuss issues on Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits, MEMS, Deep Submicron and Nanometer Devices and Circuits.

Testing and Verification will focus on issues related to Testing, Testability and Verification of Digital Designs, Memories, Analog and Mixed-Signal Designs.
VDAT 2007 will have a special pre-symposium event of a One-day Workshop on Nanoscience and Biochips.
Download Advance Program PDF 418KB.

Call for papers

Technical papers, Proposals for Tutorials and Embedded Tutorials on topics related to VLSI design, VLSI testing, Formal Verification, and CAD tools are invited. Download Call for participation PDF

Authors are invited to submit unpublished work in a maximum of 10 A4 size pages including figures, appendices and references. The submissions will undergo double-blind reviews: authors must not indicate their names or affiliations anywhere in the text, and if possible, in the references. The submissions should represent original contributions and should not have been submitted to other forums, printed journals or conferences. Reusing material from published work, even if the authors' own is tantamount to plagiarism and is strongly discouraged. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit full papers, and Presentation Foils of their talks in PowerPoint or PDF format. Final submissions (full papers or presentations) will be made available as Proceedings. Please visit guidelines to authors on homepage and for page formatting guidelines.

Call for Tutorials

Proposals for full-day (6 hours' duration) or half-day (3 hours' duration) tutorials are also invited. Tutorial proposals should include:

(i) Tutorial title and short summary (in about 200 words).
(ii) Name, affiliation and contact details of the co-ordinating presenter and all other co-presenters.
(iii) Target audience and prerequisites along with beneficial impact of the tutorial on the intended participants (in about 75 words).
(iv) Detailed tutorial program, delineated sub-topic-wise description of the structure with time duration of each (in about 2000 words).
(v) Short biographical sketch of each presenter (in about 200 words for each presenter).
Tutorials targeting Postgraduate and Ph. D. students, junior Faculty Members and greenhorn professionals are likely to get preference.

Proposals for embedded tutorials (1 hour duration) and panel discussions are also invited. The proposals must include the full papers.

Submitting authors must become members of the mailing list of the group-mail vdat@yahoogroups.com, where updates on the conference will be available.

Contact

Queries, Registration and Local arrangements: vdat07@gmail.com
Fellowship: vdat07_fellow@yahoo.co.in
Fellowship Chair:
Dr. Hafizur Rahaman, Bengal Engg. and Science University
For questions relating to sponsorship etc. please contact
Dr. C. P. Ravikumar, ravikumar@vlsi-india.org
Relating to technical program, paper submissions etc.,
Prof. Susmita Sur-Kolay, ssk@isical.ac.in
Prof. Parthasarathi Dasgupta, partha@iimcal.ac.in
Prof. D. Mukhopadhyay, dmukho@yahoo.com
Publicity Chair:
Dr. Subir Sarkar, ETCE, JU

Important Dates

Last Date for Paper submission: April 4, 2007
Last Date for Tutorial submission: April 4, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2007
Last day to receive Fellowship Application: June 10, 2007
Submission of final camera-ready manuscript: June 10, 2007
Symposium Dates: August 8-11, 2007