2010 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation &Test
(2010 VLSI-DAT)
April 26-29, 2010
The 2009 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation, and Test (VLSI-DAT) successfully attracted hundreds of attendees with a very high-quality program featuring keynote speeches by Dr. Fang-Churng Tseng, Vice Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd and Chairman of Global Unichip Corp.; Jan M. Rabaey, Professor, of UC Berkeley; and Dr. Tetsuya Iizuka, CEO of Thine Electronics, Inc. The conference published 73 highly selected technical papers, offered four tutorials on hot topics, and featured five excellent invited talks. The 2010 VLSI-DAT will be held again at the Ambassador Hotel in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Original, unpublished papers on all aspects of VLSI design, automation and test are solicited, including but not limited to:

* RF, analog and mixed-signal circuits
* Sensors and interface circuits
* Digital circuits and ASIC
* CPU, DSP and multicore architectures
* Memory circuits and systems
* Low power logic and architectures
* Multimedia processing circuits
* Communication circuits
* Embedded systems and software
* Designs using novel technologies
* System-in-package design
* Electronic System Level Design
* Modeling and simulation
* Hardware-software co-design
* Logic and architecture synthesis
* Physical design and verification
* Design for manufacturability
* Power estimation and optimization
* Design verification
* Test generation and fault simulation
* BIST and design for testability
* RF, analog and mixed-signal test
* SOC and system level testing
* System level design automation

Authors should submit their 4-page full papers electronically through the conference website at http://vlsidat.itri.org.tw. At least one author of each paper MUST register for the conference for papers to be included in the proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors at the conference. Presentation must be in English and will be limited to 18 minutes with an additional 2 minutes for Q&A. Authors should submit their final papers (accepted papers only) in an IEEE compatible format after receiving notification of acceptance. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings as submitted without revisions.

Award
An evaluation for the Best Paper Award for 2010 will be conducted during the conference. An Award Committee, consisting of at least five members, will be formed for the selecting the best paper. The selection criteria for this award include the technical content and writing quality of the paper as well as the quality of the symposium presentation. The award will be presented during the following year's symposium.

Important Dates
　Paper Submission Deadline Oct. 15, 2009
　Notification of Acceptance Dec. 31, 2009
　Final Paper (IEEE compatible version) Submission Deadline Jan. 31, 2010
　Author Registration Deadline Feb. 28, 2010
Note: The above dates are based on Taiwan time. Taiwan is eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and does not practice daylight saving time.

General Co-chair
Prof. Tim Cheng
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
E-mail: timcheng@ece.ucsb.edu

General Co-chair
Prof. Kuen-Jong Lee
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University
E-mail: kjlee@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Technical Program Co-chair
Prof. Ting-Ting Hwang
Department of Computer Science
National Tsing-Hua University
E-mail: tingting@cs.nthu.edu.tw

Technical Program Co-chair
Prof. Patrick Yue
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
E-mail: cpyue@ece.ucsb.edu

Sponsored by

* INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TAIWAN
* DEPT. OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, MOEA, TAIWAN
* MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, TAIWAN

In cooperation with

* CHINESE INSTITUTE of ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
* IEEE CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS SOCIETY
* IEEE CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS SOCIETY, TAIPEI/TAINAN CHAPTER
* IEEE ELECTRON DEVICES SOCIETY
* IEEE ELECTRON DEVICES SOCIETY TAIPEI/TAINAN CHAPTER
* IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS SOCIETY
* IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS SOCIETY, TAIPEI/TAINAN CHAPTER
* IEEE TAIPEI/TAINAN SECTION
* TAIWAN IC DESIGN SOCIETY
* TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION