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Instructions for Authors

The review process is now complete and you can see the review comments for your paper on the Docman system to which you made the submission.  A large number of reviewers have spent their efforts in providing inputs to the program committee, based on which we now have the results available for the submitted papers.

All authors of accepted papers are required to submit full papers in Microsoft WORD as-well-as PDF formats.  Final submissions (of camera-ready full papers) made in Microsoft WORD format will be made available as symposium proceedings in hard copy  and the submissions made in PDF format will be made available as symposium proceedings in the CD.  Note that the publisher needs the soft copy of the manuscript and he/she retains the right to reformat your manuscript for aesthetics. 

Authors are also required to submit their final Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to the Docman site.  Symposium proceedings in the CD will also include these Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.  All authors must upload the presentation foils to the Docman system on or before July 15, 2005.

Please note, that full papers and tutorials will get 10 pages in the hard copy proceedings, short papers will get 8 pages, and posters will get 4 pages.  The size of the VDAT proceedings are smaller than the A4 size.  If you have a poster paper and if you send a 4-page document in A4 size, that will not be acceptable.

Both full and short papers will get 20 minutes for presentation at the symposium.   Poster papers will get 10 minutes for presentation as well as an opportunity to put up posters.

Please ensure that you address the comments from the reviewers when you revise the paper.  If your manuscript is received later than June 15, 2005, it will not appear in the hard copy proceedings. 

There is no free registration to authors.  If you have applied for a fellowship, you will be intimated by July 1, 2005 about your fellowship status.

 

Guidelines for submission of camera-ready full papers:

All submitting authors must adhere to the guidelines given below.  Papers that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be included in the hardcopy proceedings.

  1. Use Microsoft Word to type-set your paper for hardcopy proceedings.  Manuscripts sent in PDF, PS and other formats will not be accepted by the publisher. If you used any other format when submitting the manuscript, you must recreate the manuscript in Microsoft Word.  Also, you must follow these guidelines for type-setting the papers:

  2. The authors must not use any color in their manuscript – figures or text.  Do not include color photographs or graphics.

  3. Importing bitmap images in Microsoft Word will not be acceptable. 

  4. Authors must not use any material (figures and/or text) from the Internet or other sources without acknowledgement.

  5. The authors must look at a hardcopy of their manuscript and ensure that all the figures are legible and all the fonts are visible.

  6. The authors must not add or delete any author from the original set of authors they included during paper submission.

  7. If the authors notice that they are exceeding the page limit set by the committee, they must contact the Publications Chair for approval. The publications chair has the authority to approve one extra page. Authors have the option of buying at most two extra pages by paying Rs. 1000/- per page. Send the DD to Finance Chair; and make the draft payable to “VLSI Design and Test Symposium 2005.”

  8. One or more of the authors must register as a participant by sending the registration form along with registration fee by June 15, 2005. 

 

Guidelines for  Presentations:

A DLP projector, collar mike, and laser pointer will be available for the presentations as AV aids.  Presentation foils must adhere to the following guidelines:

  1. For a 20-minute presentation, do not make more than 10 foils.

  2. Use "VDAT 2005" as a footer.

  3. The normal flow of the presentation must be:

    • Title slide

    • Outline

    • Background and Previous Work

    • Your contribution

    • Experimental results

    • Summary

  4. Clearly indicate who the presenter is and who the coauthors are on the title foil.

  5. Highlight your contributions and compare your work with previous work - use the time judiciously.

  6. Do not spend too much time providing the background!

  7. Do not reuse material from any source without acknowledgement

  8. Do not use fonts less than 20 point

  9. Use Arial font

  10. Do not clutter your foils with information

  11. Do not cut and paste paragraphs from your paper

  12. If animation is used, please ensure that the printed version will still make sense. We wish to make the PDF versions of the foils available on the CD.

  13. Also, please send a brief bio-data to vdat05@hotmail.com - the bio must include:

    •  Name of the presenter

    • Session number (as indicated in the Technical Program)

    • Introduction to the speaker - Educational background, professional background, areas of interest, awards, etc. Please ensure this is brief. This material will be used to introduce the speaker by the session chair.

Submitting authors must become members of the VDAT Mailing List, where updates on the symposium will be sent.  We look forward to meeting you at the workshops.  If you have questions that are unanswered, please do not hesitate to send them to us.