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The 2024 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits: “Bridging the Digital & Physical Worlds with Efficiency & Intelligence”

Honolulu, Hawaii
16 – 20 June 2024

For the last 44 years, the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits has delivered a unique convergence of technology and circuits for the microelectronics industry, with maximum synergy between both domains. Organized around the theme: “Bridging the Digital & Physical Worlds with Efficiency & Intelligence,” the five-day event will be fully in-person with live sessions at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI, from 16 to 20 June 2024, and on-demand access to technical sessions starting the following week. The Symposium will feature the latest VLSI technology developments, innovative circuit design, and the applications they enable, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, wearable/implantable biomedical applications, big data, cloud/edge computing, virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR), robotics, and autonomous vehicles.

The Symposium continues to be the microelectronics industry’s premiere international conference integrating technology, circuits, and systems with a range and scope like no other conference. In addition to the technical presentations, the Symposium program will feature a demonstration session, an evening panel discussion, joint focus sessions, short courses and workshops that provide technical content relevant to the Symposium theme. 

Plenary Sessions

 “Making Sense At The Edge,” by Dr. Ahmad Bahai, Senior VP & Chief Technical Officer, Texas Instruments 

 “Mobility Evolution: Electrification & Automation,” by Dr. Kazuoki Matsugatani, Senior Director, R&D Center, DENSO Corporation 

 “Wireless and the Future Hyperconnected World,” by Dr. Maryam Rofougaran, CEO & Co-Founder, Movandi Corporation

“Photonics-Electronics Convergence Devices Accelerate IOWN,” by Mr. Hidehiro Tsukano, Senior VP of R&D, NTT Corporation 

Focus Sessions

The Symposium program integrates technology & circuit topics with a series of four joint focus sessions to present papers with both areas, including: 1) Memory-centric computing for large language models; 2) Thermal management & power delivery in 3D integration; 3) Processors & Compute; 4) Next-generation wireless technologies. In addition, there are two Technology focus sessions on: 1) Backside silicon power delivery & signaling; 2) Oxide semiconductor applications in BEOL.

Short Courses on Key VLSI topics

Two full-day short courses will be featured:

• Technology Short Course “Advanced VLSI Technologies for Next Generation Computing”
• Circuits Short Course “Circuits & Systems for Heterogeneous Integration” 

Evening Panel Session
“Impact of Generative AI on the Semiconductor Industry – Technology, Circuits, & EDA”

Demonstration Session

Introduced in 2017, the popular in-person demonstration session will again be part of the Symposium program, providing participants an opportunity for in-depth interaction with authors of selected papers from both Technology and Circuits sessions. Approximately 15–20 table-top presentations will demonstrate device characterization, chip operational results, and potential applications for circuit-level innovations. The best demo will be selected by Symposium attendees.

Workshops

A series of workshop sessions will be held during the Symposium program to provide additional learning opportunities on topics adjacent to the Symposium program. This year, there are five workshops:

Standing Workshop

• This four-hour workshop covers open-source design, including EDA and chiplets.

Parallel Workshops
These two-hour workshop sessions are held in parallel:

• RF and Analog 3D integration
• Novel metals for advanced interconnect
• Recent art in balancing analog vs. digital in mixed-signal circuits
• Interfacing chips with biology

Special events at the Symposium include mentoring events for Women in Engineering and Young Professionals, sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society and the Solid-State Circuits Society.

Best Student Paper Awards for each track Symposium are chosen based on the quality of the papers and presentations. The recipients will receive a monetary award, travel cost support, and a certificate. For a paper to be reviewed for this award, the lead author and presenter of the paper must be enrolled as a full-time student at the time of submission and must indicate on the web submission form that the paper is a student paper.

Conference Website:  https://www.vlsisymposium.org/

The IEEE SNW 2024 will be held in a FULL in-person event, 15-16 June in Hawaii. The registration system is OPEN now:

1. Early bird rate registration - The early registration rate is before 30 May 2024. Please click below the web site for online registration.

https://snw2024.conf.nycu.edu.tw/registration/

2. The advance program - Please check it by clicking https://snw2024.conf.nycu.edu.tw/program/

3. If you are presenting author(both Oral/Invited & Poster)- Accepted papers MUST be presented at the workshop by one of the authors and the presenter needs to register NO LATER than 5 June, without which the papers will be excluded from the advance program and workshop proceedings. You are encouraged to register early.

Also, as a satellite event, to continually attend VLSI symposium, you need to register separately, with link

Any inquiries on the registration, please contact the Logistics chair Prof. Steve Chung at [email protected]

2024 International Semiconductor Conference (CAS)

Sinaia, Romania

9 – 11 October 2024

CAS 2024 conference brings together prominent researchers, academic experts, students and industry specialists to share innovative ideas and recent advances in the field of micro- and nanotechnologies and semiconductor devices.

The conference facilitates the exchange of scientific and technical information covering a broad range of topics, from semiconductor device physics, technology and integrated circuits to micro- and nanotechnologies, including micro-nanoelectronics and micro-nanosystems technologies, encompassing all relevant aspects such as modelling and simulation, design, measurement.

One of the conferences with the longest tradition in Europe, CAS has been organized in Romania yearly since 1978. Through the decades, the conference has grown and consolidated into a prestigious international platform for a strong community of scientists who share their novel results, solutions and challenges in this exciting field.

The participants will enjoy a comprehensive technical program including selected presentations in oral and poster sessions, invited presentations, special sessions for students, as well as social events and the ceremony for Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards. The conference’s exhibition area welcomes companies to showcase their newest products and technologies.

Authors are invited to submit original papers on the conference topics. The accepted papers presented at the conference will be published in the Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements.

CAS 2024 Conference is sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, as a special event dedicated to promote innovative research in micro- and nanotechnologies, to provide networking opportunities for identifying new partnerships and to strengthen the collaboration between academia and industry.

Conference Website