CALL FOR PAPERS
GLSVLSI 2003
Washington D.C.
April 28-29, 2003
http://www.glsvlsi.org/

OVERVIEW
The 2003 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) will be held on 
April 28-29, 2003 at the Radisson Barcelo Hotel in downtown Washington D.C.
http://www.radisson.com/hoteldirectory/hotelbio.jsp?hotelCode=DCBARCEL

Original, unpublished papers, describing research in the general area of VLSI 
are solicited. Both theoretical and experimental research results are welcome. 
Symposium Proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be included on 
the SIGDA compendium CD-ROM.

TOPICS
The theme of the 2003 symposium is "VLSI in the Nanometer Era." Additional 
topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-VLSI Design: design of ASICs, microprocessors and micro-architectures, embedded 
processors, analog/digital/mixed-signal systems, multi-chip modules, FPGAs.
-VLSI Circuits: analog/digital/mixed-signal circuits, RF and communication 
circuits, chaos/neural/fuzzy-logic circuits, high-speed/low-power circuits.
-Computer-Aided Design (CAD): hardware/software co-design, logic and behavioral 
synthesis, logic mapping, simulation and formal verification, layout 
(partitioning, placement, routing, floorplanning, compaction, etc.), algorithms 
and complexity analysis.
-Low Power Design: circuits, micro-architectural techniques, CAD support, power 
estimation methodologies and tools.
-Testing, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance: digital/analog/mixed-signal testing, 
design for testability and reliability, online testing techniques, static and 
dynamic defect- and fault-recoverability.
-Nanotechnology: emerging technologies (resonant tunneling devices, single 
electron transistors, quantum devices, molecular electronics, etc.), circuit 
design using nanotechnology devices, modeling and simulation tools for 
nanoelectronic devices and circuits.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: January 17, 2003
Acceptance notification: February 14, 2003
Camera ready paper due: March 4, 2003

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit full-length (6 pages maximum), original, 
unpublished papers along with an abstract of at most 200 words. To enable
blind review, the author list should be omitted from the main document.
Previously published papers or papers submitted for publication to other
conferences/journals will not be considered. Electronic submission in PDF
format to the www.glsvlsi.org website is required. Author and contact
information (name, street/mailing address, telephone, fax, e-mail) must
be entered during the submission process.

PAPER FORMAT
To allow reduced turn-around time for accepted papers, GLSVLSI 2003 submissions 
should be in camera-ready two-column pdf format, following the ACM proceedings 
specifications located at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
and the classification system detailed at http://www.acm.org/class/1998/.

SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
Papers will be accepted for long, short, or poster presentation at the symposium.

BEST PAPER AWARD
A "Best Paper Award" will be voted on by the technical program committee and 
will be awarded during the symposium.

SPONSORSHIP AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
The 2003 GLSVLSI is sponsored by ACM SIGDA, and technical support is provided by 
IEEE CAS.