12^th IEEE VLSI Design And Test Symposium

Organized by

VLSI Society of India

Industry Sponsors

On-line paper submission/review for VDAT Symposium is managed by Microsoft’s CMT. CMT is a conference management service sponsored by Microsoft Research

Please use the link https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/VDAT2008/ to register at CMT for subsequent paper submission and review process.

You may need to create your login ID and profile by clicking "New User Registration". The instructions are self-explanatory.

Help and Guide on using CMT is available at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/Cmt2Help/

Note: Both PDF and DOC formats are allowed for initial submissions with a 5MB size limit.

Symposium Dates: July 23-26, 2008
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.

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.

Prospective authors must visit the CMT Website and first set up a login ID for themselves before submitting the paper.
Click on "New User? Sign Up Here" to create your login ID and profile through the "Sign Up Wizard". The instructions are self-explanatory. e-mail id is treated as the Username.

Please visit https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/VDAT2008/ for submissions and access reviews subsequently.

If you forget your password, the system will allow you to reset the password.
If you submit a trial version of the manuscript, please ensure to delete it before submitting the final version to avoid the trial version getting reviewed.

You must enter all the fields shown - title, abstract, authors, subject areas, and the file in PDF. (When the paper is accepted, we will ask for final submission in WORD format.) Finally, enter the confirmation.

Please ensure that you have mentioned all the authors at the time of submission. You may not add or delete authors later. It is imperative that one of the authors will register and present the paper if the paper gets accepted.

Please ensure that the title you select is the final one - you may not change the title later.
Do not identify yourselves in the paper either directly or indirectly. VDAT will use blind review procedure. Your paper will be rejected if the PC feels that you have identified yourselves directly or indirectly.

VDAT will also accept embedded tutorials of 45 min to 1 hr duration. There is no fundamental difference between an embedded tutorial and a paper, except that the embedded tutorial is a survey of previously published work. In both cases, we will need the full paper in PDF or WORD format. The authors of embedded tutorials may identify themselves and include a brief biography of the `speaker* who will deliver the tutorial. If there are multiple authors, the speaker must be clearly identified and only his/her biography must be included.

Both PDF and DOC files are accepted for the initial submission, with a 5MB size limit. After submitting the paper, ensure that the paper has been properly submitted by downloading it. All submitting authors would be notified on acceptance/ non-acceptance of each paper.

The submissions should represent original contribution and should not have been submitted to other forums.

It is important that abstracts bring out the contribution and novelty of the paper.

Students must note that reusing material from published work is incorrect and amounts to violation of copyright.

Survey papers are not acceptable.

Submitting authors must become members of the VDAT mailing list, where updates are sent.

Authors must upload their submissions at the specified website, and must not send it through mail.

Submissions will undergo blind review – the authors must not include their names or affiliations.

Notification

All the submitting authors are notified on the status of acceptance via mail, and the reviews are displayed on the relevant website, to aid the authors of accepted papers to improvize final submission.

Page limit

The accepted papers are published in the hardcopy of proceedings, and also distributed as softcopy along with their slides. The papers are categorized as Full papers/Embedded Tutorials and Short Papers. Full papers get 10 pages in the hardcopy and Short papers 8 pages. As the paper size of the VDAT proceedings are smaller than letter size, follow the guidelines to format page layout.

The set page limit for both category includes figures, text, references etc.,

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 VDAT Symposium 2008, payable at Bangalore.

One or more of the authors must register as a participant and present the paper.

Formatting

Papers that do not comply with these guidelines will not be included in the hardcopy proceedings.

Papers must be submitted in DOC format using Microsoft Word. No other formats are acceptable.

Do not include color photographs or graphics.

Figures must be of high resolution and must not have gray background.

Importing bitmap images in Microsoft Word will not be acceptable.

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

The authors must output hardcopy of their manuscript and ensure that all the figures are legible and also output PDF to verify the figures and tables show up before sending. PDF is used for the softcopy.

Sample files
Download a sample paper from the previous VDAT Symposium for formatting guidelines reference: Technical paper PDF 95kb ... Presentation foils PDF 218kb

Template files

Please visit for further details on Page formatting DOC and PPT foils, and to download template file.