12^th IEEE VLSI Design And Test Symposium

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VLSI Society of India

Industry Sponsors

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Invited and Keynote talks

Technical papers, Proposals for Tutorials and Embedded Tutorials on topics related to VLSI Design, VLSI Testing, Formal Verification, and CAD Tools are invited.

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Technical submissions are categorized as

Regular papers

Embedded Tutorials

Half-day/Full-day Tutorials

Regular papers

Authors are invited to submit unpublished work in a maximum of 10 A4 size pages including figures, appendices and references.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 of Regular papers 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, in both hard and softcopy format.

Please visit guidelines to authors on homepage and http://vlsi-india.org/docs/i2a-doc.html for page formatting guidelines.

Embedded Tutorials

Proposals for embedded tutorials (1 hour duration) and panel discussions are also invited. The proposals must include the full papers. Authors of embedded tutorials and half-day/full-day tutorials must provide their biographical information.

Submitting authors must become members of the vdat@yahoogroups.com mailing list, where updates on the symposium will be sent.

Half-day/Full-day Tutorials

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

(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).

Online paper submission/review for VDAT Symposium is managed by Microsoft’s CMT. Please refer details on uploading papers online.

Last Date for paper submission: March 15, 2008
Last Date for Tutorial submission: March 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2008
Last day to receive final manuscript: May 25, 2008
The camera-ready copies of the papers must be submitted on the CMT website no later than May 25 (soft deadline which allows us to review your submission and point out any problems) or June 1 (hard deadline, which does not allow any iterations), as per the instructions given at http://vlsi-india.org/docs/i2a-doc.html . Manuscripts that do not conform to the page limits or the formatting guidelines will not be included in the Proceedings – it is strongly recommended that the authors submit the paper by May 25 to allow time for a review.
Note:
Regular papers and Embedded Tutorials will get a maximum of 10 pages in the proceedings
Short papers will get 8 pages
Poster papers will get 1 page (abstract only).
Note that the page size of VDAT proceedings are smaller. There are no page charges if your paper fits within the limits mentioned above. Up to two extra pages can be purchased @ Rs 1000/- per page. The DD for extra page charges should be made in favor of "VDAT Symposium 2008" payable at Bangalore and mailed before June 1st to
Gopal Naidu, Treasurer, VSI, Texas Instruments India, Bagmane Tech Park, CV Raman Nagar, Bangalore 560093 (Tel – 25099727 x 1363).
Last day to receive final presentation: June 25, 2008
The foils for the presentation must be uploaded to CMT site no later than June 25. The foils will be reviewed by session chairs and feedback will be mailed to the authors. The final set of foils must be uploaded by July 7 (hard deadline). Foils uploaded to the website will be available to presenters during VDAT.
The proceedings softcopy has no limitation on page and file size for both the paper and presentation for all paper categories. Poster papers will be included in full.

Fellowship application: June 2, 2008
Symposium Dates: July 23-26, 2008
At least one author for each paper must register to attend VDAT. Online registration must be completed no later than June 20. DD/Cheque towards registration must be received no later than July 1. Registration forms will be available at http://vlsi-india.org/events/vdat2008/registration.shtml.
Please also enter registration details at http://vlsi-india.org/register.htm Your paper cannot be included in the proceedings if we have not received the registration. Note that this applies to everyone, including those who have applied for fellowship. If you are an author and receive a fellowship at a later date, your registration amount will be reimbursed at the symposium.

Corporate sponsors and Exhibitors must contact the Sponsorship Chair for details.

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