The 6th International Workshop on Unique Chips and Systems (UCAS-6)

To be held in conjunction with the 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-43)
December 4, 2010
Atlanta, GA, USA

** This workshop looks forward to bring together unique research in all areas of chip and system design. We are looking forward to assembling a program with unique technologies, circuits and architectures that your academic or industry team is working on.

** UCAS-6 will have 2 main subcategories (computer architecture and VLSI design) and WIP (Work in Progress) session. Topics of interest include but not limited to unique aspects of:

-VLSI Systems
-Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems
-Software Systems
-Grid computing
-Mobile Cloud Computing
-GPU / GPGPU
-Pervasive Computing
-Radiation hardened systems
-Low Power Architectures and Systems
-Low Power Software
-Bioinformatics
-Integrated Security Systems
-Visualization
-Biometrics / Biomedical
-Data hiding
-Blind Signal and Image Processing
-Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
-Massively parallel architectures
-Multithreaded architectures
-Fine-grain parallel architectures
-Many-core architectures
-Multimedia and Mobile processors
-Performance Evaluation and Workload Characterization
-Unique technologies (quantum well optoelectronic, biologically inspired circuits systems, RF and high frequency, etc.)

** Submission Guideline: Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in standard IEEE two-column format
-Regular sessions: not exceeding 8 pages (6~8 pages)
-WIP (work-in-progress) session: 4 pages

** Submission site: will be available soon

** Important Dates:
-Paper Submission (extended): October 3, 2010
-Notification of Acceptance: October 22, 2010
-Final Version Due: November 5, 2010

** Selected papers from previous UCAS were published in an edited book titled "Unique Chips and Systems". Selected papers from recent UCAS (including UCAS-6) will be published as another edited book. Details of the of the Unique Chips and Systems book can be found here.

** Organizers:
Byeong Kil Lee, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tor Aamodt, University of British Columbia

** Technical Program Committee:

Rajeev Balasubramonian, University of Utah
Pradip Bose, IBM TJ Watson
Chen-Yong Cher, IBM TJ Watson
Young Kyu Choi, KUT
Jeanine Cook, New Mexico State University
Manoj Franklin, University of Maryland
Jie Han, University of Alberta
Jaehyuk Huh, KAIST
Ali Irturk, University of California San Diego
Hans Jacobson, IBM TJ Watson
Tejas Karkhanis, IBM TJ Watson
Omer Khan, MIT
Shigeru Kusakabe, Kyushu University
Jeffrey Kuskin, D.E. Shaw Research
Rabi Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, College Station
Saraju Mohanty, Univ. of North Texas
Mike O'Connor, AMD Research
Mark Oskin, University of Washington
Sanghamitra Roy, Utah State University
Karu Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin
Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island
Michael Shebanow, NVIDIA
Lei Wang, Univ. of Connecticut