VDAT 2010 Call for participation
VDAT2010, the 14th VLSI Design And Test Symposium is scheduled during July 7-9, 2010, at the Chitkara University, Chandigarh.
The three-day event will include Full-day tutorials on July 7th, and the conference during July 8-9, that includes presentations of selected papers, keynote, invited talks, and panel discussions on topics related to VLSI design.
Topics
Authors are invited to submit unpublished work in the below areas:
Area A - VLSI and Embedded Systems for Medical Applications and Healthcare
Area B - VLSI and Embedded Systems for Energy Conversion, including Solar Inversion
Area C - VLSI and Embedded Systems for Communications and Computing
Area D - VLSI and Embedded Systems for Other Applications, including Rural
Area E - System Integration and Test, and VLSI Chip Design and Test
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Subject area categories
Alternate Energy
Battery Management
Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Engineering
Biomedical Applications
Biomedical Electronics
Biomedical Signal Processing
Communications and Computing
Computer applications in Medicine
Digital X-Ray
Energy Conversion
Energy Harvesting
Environment Preservation
Medical Electronics Solutions
Medical image Compression
Medical imaging
Medical instrumentation and Measurements
Power Management
Precision Agriculture
Rural Applications
Rural Communication
Smart Phones
Solar/PV Inverters
System integration and Test
Telehealth
Telemedicine
Ultrasound
VLSI Chip Design and Test
Initial submission
Visit Paper submission for details on online submission.
We invite technical papers, embedded tutorials, and full-day or half-day tutorial proposals. For the technical papers and embedded tutorial proposals, author/s must not reveal their identity
All submitting authors must become members of the vdat@yahoogroups.com mailing list, through which, updates on the symposium will be notified.
Technical papers and embedded tutorials
Authors are invited to submit unpublished work in a maximum of 10 A4 size pages including figures, appendices and references. For Embedded tutorials (1 hour duration), the proposals must include the full papers.
The submissions will undergo double-blind reviews: authors must not indicate their names or affiliations anywhere in the text, and if possible, in the references. The submissions should represent original contributions and should not have been submitted to other forums, printed journals or conferences.
Please indicate the area clearly when you make the submission. The area must also be indicated in the first page of the manuscript, below the title. Please do not submit survey papers.It is assumed that at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the paper.
Full-day or half-day tutorial proposals
Authors may also submit proposals for full-day (6 hours' duration) or half-day (3 hours' duration) tutorials in the areas mentioned above. In this case, you must clearly indicate by placing the text Tutorial Submission below the title and providing the details of the speaker(s). Each tutorial submission must consist of an extended abstract. We encourage tutorials in the emerging areas.Tutorial proposals should have
(i) Tutorial title and short summary (in about 200 words)
(ii) Name, affiliation and contact details of the co-ordinating presenter and all other co-presenters
(iii) Target audience and prerequisites along with beneficial impact of the tutorial on the intended participants (in about 75 words)
(iv) detailed tutorial program, delineated sub-topic-wise description of the structure with time duration of each (in about 2000 words)
Panel discussions
Panel discussion proposals must be submitted together with details of the topics, their relevance, and the conflicts they will address, together with names of panelists.
Important dates
Last Date for Submission – February 15, 2010 (Papers, 1-hr Embedded tutorials, and Full-day/half-day tutorials)
Last Date for Intimation of Acceptance – April 15, 2010
Last Date for Authors to confirm their participation – April 20, 2010
Last Date for Camera-ready of accepted papers – June 1, 2010
Last Date for Presentation foils of accepted papers – June 7, 2010
Submission Guidelines
Initial submissions
Visit Paper submission for details on online submission.
All submissions would be carried online through the Microsoft's Conference Management Service website.
Initial submissions should only be in PDF, with a max. 5MB size limit. Authors must follow the page formatting as with the final submission mentioned below.
Reviews
All submissions undergo a blind review process, through a panel of reviewers formed by the technical program committee. The reviewers would be experts in their respective fields.
Paper selection
The list of accepted papers are put up on the website, and the authors of all submitted papers are notified individually on the status. The papers are suitably categorized as Regular papers, Short papers and Embedded or Short tutorials by the review committee.
Final submission
Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit full papers, and Presentation Foils of their talks in Power Point or PDF format. Final submissions (full papers and presentations) will be made available as Proceedings. Please visit guidelines to authors on homepage and http://vlsi-india.org/docs/i2a-doc.html for page formatting guidelines.
