The International Conference on Microelectronics has been held in numerous countries across the Middle East and Asia over the past 22 years. The 23rd IEEE-sponsored the conference. ICM 2011 will be held at TUNISIA (Hammamet).
ICM 2011 will include oral, poster sessions and tutorials given by experts in state-of-the-art topics. The regular technical program will run for three days. In addition, tutorial sessions will beheld on the first day of the conference. Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics:

Circuits and Systems
1. Analog and RF circuit design techniques
2. Digital signal and data processing
3. Wireless communication systems
4. Nonlinear circuits
5. System on Chip (SoCs)
6. VLSI for Signal and Image Processing
7. Integrated antenna and front-end co-design
8. Signal Processing in Communications

Computer-Aided Design
1. Simulation (process, device, circuit, logic, timing, functional)
2. Layout (placement, routing, floor
3. planning, symbolic, ERC, DRC)
4. Silicon optimization
5. Parallel embedded systems
6. Testing: Formal verification
7. CAD for FPGAs
8. High level synthesis tools
9. Design for testability

Micro/Nano-Electronics
1. Device characterization and modeling
2. Device physics and novel structures
3. Process technology, CMOS, BJT,
4. BiCMOS, GaAs
5. Reliability and failure analysis
6. Optoelectronics
7. MEMS Devices
8. Packaging and surface mount technology Others

Perspective authors are invited to submit full length (four pages) papers, in IEEE format, for presentation in any of the areas listed above using the guidelines in the authors' info. Only electronic submissions will be accepted via the online submission system. Accepted papers will be published in the electronic Conference Proceedings (CD ROM) and included in IEEE XPLORE database.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: July 18, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: September 14, 2011
Deadline for Paper Inclusion in Workshop Digest: October 11, 2011

GENERAL CHAIRS
Mohamed Abid: CES Laboratory in Sfax, Tunisia
Mohamad Sawan: Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Canada

HONORARY CHAIR
Mohamed Elmasry: University of Waterloo, Canada