Annual Report 2004 - VLSI Systems and Applications TC, IEEE CAS Society

Chair: Prof. Keshab K. Parhi
Chair-Elect/Secretary: Prof. Chein-Wei Jen

(1) TC meeting: The past TC meeting was held on May 26, 2003 in Bangkok during ISCAS-2003.

(2) Conferences where TC Members are involved in 2003:

- ISCAS-2003 Conf. (VLSI Track) (K. Parhi and C. Jen, Cochairs, numerous members on TPC)
- Midwest Symp. on CAS -2003 (M. Bayoumi, Chair)
- SIPS-2003 Workshop (General Chair: W. Sung, TPC Chair:
Myung H. Sunwoo, numerous members on TPC)
- Int. Conf. on MEMS, Nano, and Smart Systems, Alberta, July 2003 (Wael Badawy, Technical Cochair)
- (3rd) IEEE Int. Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, Calgary, June 30-July 2, 2003 (Wael Badawy, E. Friedman, G. Jullien, and Yehea Ismail, TPC: R. Secarenau)
- Int. Symp. on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Appl., Hsinchu, Oct. 2003 (Bin-Da Liu, TPC)
- Int. Conf. on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, Nanjing, China (Dec. 2003, Invited Speaker and Advisory Committee)
- Int. Conf. on Informatics, Cybernetics, and Systems, Kaohsiung, Dec. 2003 (Bin-Da Liu, TPC)
- Int. Symp. on System-on-Chip (TPC Members: K. Parhi, M. Stan, and W.
Badawy)
- Asian Test Symp., 2003 (Chin-Long Wey, TPC Member)
- Design Automation Conf. (S. Sapatnekar, TPC)
- ICCD Conf. (M. Stan, S. Sapatnekar, TPC)
- ISLPED (Francky Catthoor, Mircea Stan)
- TAU Workshop (S. Sapatnekar, Marios Papaefthymiou, TPC)
- VLSI Design Conf. (S. Sapatnekar, TPC)
- SOCC Conf. (numerous members)
- DATE 2003 (M. Stan)
- PATMOS-2003 (M. Papaefthymiou)
- Great Lakes Symp. VLSI (M. Stan, Gen. Chair, TPC: E. Friedman, K. Parhi)
- Int. Conf. on Microelectronics Education (E. Friedman)
- Southwest Symp. on Mixed-Signal Design (E. Friedman, M. Margala)
- ICECS 2003 (Bassel Soudan, conference secretariat, TPC member, Organizing committee member, T. Stouraitis: TPC, 398 papers selected out of 551 submissions)
- NEWCAS 2003 (M. Sawan, Founder and Chair)

(3) Conferences where TC Members are involved in 2004:

- ISCAS-2004 Conf. (VLSI Track) (C. Jen and M. Stan, Cochairs, numerous members on TPC)
- Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems: 2004 (K. Parhi, M. Sawan, Track
Cochairs)
- SIPS-2004 Workshop (General Chair: W. Gass, Austin, TX),
- Int. Conf. on MEMS, Nano, and Smart Systems, Alberta, August 2004 (Wael Badawy, Organizer), Banff, 2004
- (4th) IEEE Int. Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, Calgary, July 19-July 21, 2004 (Wael Badawy)
- IEEE Asia-Pacific Conf. on Circuits and Systems, Dec. 2004 (Bin-Da Liu, General Chair)
- ICECS 2004, Tel Aviv, Israel, (E. Friedman, TPC Chair, TPC: M. Jseke, M.
Sawan)
- MELECON (M. Jeske, TPC)
- Int. Symp. on System-on-Chip (TPC Members: K. Parhi, M. Stan, and W.
Badawy)
- ISLPED-2004 (TPC: M. Stan)
- VLSI Design-2004 (S. Sapatnekar: TPC)
- First Workshop on Temperature Aware Computer Systems, U of VA, M. Stan
(2004)
- Asian Test Symp., 2004 (Chin-Long Wey, TPC Member)
- Design Automation Conf. 2004 (S. Sapatnekar, TPC)
- ISLPED-2004 (Francky Catthoor, Mircea Stan)
- TAU Workshop-2004 (S. Sapatnekar, Marios Papaefthymiou, TPC)
- SOCC-2004 Conf., San Jose, CA (numerous TC members)
- PATMOS 2004 (D. Soudris, TPC)
- DATE 2004 (D. Soudris, TPC)
- Great Lakes Symp. VLSI, 2004, (TPC: M. Stan, R. Sridhar, E. Friedman, K.
Parhi)

(4) Tutorials

W. Badawy, Low-Power Video Platforms for Mobile Applications (IEEE ISCAS-2004)

R. Sridhar (with R. Krishnamurthy and S.K. Mathew), "Clocking and Synchronization issues in sub-100 nm System on Chip (SoC) Applications, (IEEE ISCAS-2004)

O. Koufopavlou and P. Kitsos, "Cryptography: Circuits and Systems Approach", (IEEE ISCAS-2004)

J. Long and R. Harjani, "Ultra Wideband Systems" (IEEE ISCAS-2004)

Y. Ismail, High-Speed Phenomena in Integrated Circuits: Challenges and Solutions, ICM

(5) Editorial Services:

IEEE TRANS. VLSI Systems (N. Ranganathan, EIC, Assoc. Editors: Myung H. Sunwoo, T. Stouraitis, An-Yeu Wu, S. Sapatnekar, Marios Papaefthymiou, Radu Secareanu, Yuke Wang, Y. Ismail, Mohammad Ibrahim, Bassel Soudan)

IEEE Trans. on CAS-I (K. Parhi, EIC, AE: T. Arslan, Bin-Da Liu, G. Palumbo, P. Nilsson, M. Stan)

IEEE Trans. CAD (AE: S. Sapatnekar, M. Papaefthymiou)

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine (Bin-Da Liu, R. Sridhar, AE)

Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (T. Stouraitis, and E. Friedman, Regional Editors)

Journal of Analog ICs and Signal Processing (AE: E. Friedman)

Kluwer Journal of Electronic Testing, Technology and Applications (AE: M.
Margala)

J. of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (AEs: K. Parhi, E. Friedman, F.
Catthoor)

Eurasip J. on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Broadband Systems (Guest AEs: An-Yeu Wu, U. Koc, K. Parhi and S. Theodoridis)

Guest Editor for J. of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (AE: M. Sunwoo)

Microelectronics Journal (AE: E. Friedman)

ACM TODAES (AE: F. Catthoor)

IEEE TVLSI Special Issue on "On-Chip Inductance in High Speed Integrated Circuits" (Guest Editor Yehea Ismail)

Guest Editor for ACM Trans. Emb. computing Systems (F. Catthoor with M.
Jacome),

Guest Editor for J of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (F. Catthoor with M.
Moonen),

Guest Editor for J of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (M. Bayoumi and N.
Ling),

Guest Editor, special issue for Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing Journal (M. Jeske)

Guest Editor, Special Issue on VLSI System-on-Chip of Integration:
The VLSI Journal (D. Soudris)

Guest Editor on VLSI Design and Test in Microelectronic Engineering Journal (D. Soudris)

Guest Editor on PATMOS-2003 in IEE-Proc of Computers and Digital Techniques (D. Soudris)

Guest Editor of Kluwer J. Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (M. Sawan)

Canadian Journal on Electrical and Computer Engineering (W. Badawy, AE),

Special Issue on "Nanoelectronics and Nanoscale Signal Processing", Proceedings of IEEE, Nov. 2003, Guest Editors: Bing Sheu and Peter Wu

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Developments in Nano-Giga Systems Column, Guest Editors: Bing Sheu, Peter Wu, and Simon Sze

Special issue on Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems for IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, Guest AEs: P. Wu, M. Zaghloul, and J.-Y. Jou

Special issue of IEEE Computer on Power- and Temperature-Aware Computing
(http://www.ee.Virginia.EDU/~mrs8n/ComputerCFP.html)
(Guest editors: Mircea Stan and K. Skadron)

(6) Congratulations:

TC Member M. Sawan became a Fellow of IEEE (2004)!

(8) Other CASS Representation

ISCAS-2004 Forums:
Forum-I: Nano-Giga Scale Circuits and Systems, M. Zaghloul
Forum-II: Pursuing High-Tech Academic Leadership Excellence: How to Proceed ISCAS-2004, (B. Sheu) CASS representative to IEEE Nanotechnology Council (B. Sheu, 2003-4) CASS representative to steering committee of C&D magazine (M. Sawan)

Board of Governors (E. Friedman)
Distinguished Lecturer (R. Sridhar)

(9) Next TC Meeting will be held on May 24, 2004 during ISCAS-2004.