From: ebeling@cs.washington.edu (Carl Ebeling)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Call for Papers
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:23:33 GMT
Expires: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle


The Symposium on Integrated Systems is a descendent of the Conferences
on Advanced Research in VLSI initiated by Caltech and MIT.  Like those
conferences we will continue the tradition of soliciting and accepting
the highest quality papers on topics relating to VLSI.  Unlike those
conferences, we have a new title and a new emphasis, namely systems
integration issues in microelectronic systems "from the chips up".
The program committee will select a small number of invited speakers,
and will continue the tradition of being the premier conference for
research contributions in the area of VLSI systems.
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			UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

	      	     SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
	 (Previously the Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI)

			  Seattle, Washington
	 		  March 17 - 19, 1993

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		    	*   CALL FOR PAPERS   *
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Recent advances in microelectronic technologies have enabled new
architectures and applications requiring highly integrated or
large-scale systems.  Papers are invited describing original research
addressing issues in building integrated systems "from the chips up."
This includes a wide range of interrelated disciplines, including
basic technology, circuits and devices, VLSI architectures, design
automation and applications.

Although the SIS conference is the 15th in a series that has been held
at Caltech, MIT, UNC Chapel Hill, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, and Brown,
it now seeks greater emphasis on systems issues in the design and
construction of large-scale microelectronic systems.  Papers are
solicited in the following and related areas:

  Systems Issues: System partitioning and integration, interfaces,
	networks and interconnect technology, I/O and secondary
	storage, communications systems, clock distribution,
	asynchronous systems, packaging, MCMs.
  VLSI Architectures:  Highly parallel architectures, special-purpose
	VLSI chips and systems, novel small-scale systems, programmable
	structures and FPGAs, fault tolerance.
  Circuits and Devices:  New storage technologies, innovative circuit
	design, wafer-scale systems, low-power systems.
  New Technologies:  New storage technologies, packaging, optical computing.
  Design Automation:  Circuit and system synthesis, architectural
	design support, hardware/software co-design, analysis and
	simulation, novel design methodologies.

    **** Keynote Address - John Hennessy, Stanford University ****

Contributed papers: submit five copies of a draft paper, not to exceed
15 pages, with a 500-word abstract postmarked by Tuesday, October 6,
1992 to:
		University of Washington Conference
		114 Sieg Hall, FR-35
		Seattle, WA  98l95

Please include address, phone number, and email address (if available)
for the contact author.  Notification of acceptances will be sent by
December 1, 1992.  Camera-ready copy of accepted papers is due by
January 5, 1993 so that the proceedings can be available at the
conference.

Organization of the Conference:  The conference is organized by the
Laboratory for Integrated Systems, University of Washington.  The
General Chair is Larry Snyder.  If you would like further information
about the conference, contact Kay Beck at the above address or at
(206) 685-3796 (phone), (206) 543-2969 (FAX) or
kbeck@cs.washington.edu (email).

Program Committee
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Anant Agarwal, MIT		  Dick Lyon, Apple
Gaetano Borriello, UW (Co-chair)  Alain Martin, Caltech
Bob Brodersen, UC Berkeley	  Trevor Mudge, Michigan
Paul Chow, Toronto		  John Poulton, UNC
Carl Ebeling, UW (Co-chair)	  Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, UC Berkeley
Ed Frank, Sun			  Martine Schlag, UC Santa Cruz
Allan Fisher, CMU		  Bob Sproull, Sun
Mark Horowitz, Stanford		  Tom Szymanski, ATT
Norm Jouppi, DEC		  Jean Vuillemin, DEC Paris