Dear Distinguished Professors and Researchers,

It is a pleasure to invite you to submit your Original Research Paper in "27th International Conference on VLSI Design and also in the Concurrently run 13th International Conference on Embedded Systems" to be held in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India from 5th January to 9th January 2014. The Conference is sponsored by VLSI Society of India and Technically sponsored by IEEE. The Conference proceeding will be published in soft form only. All accepted papers will be accessible through IEEE Explore system. The topics of Conference's interest are all aspects of VLSI Design and Embedded systems.

The conference website is at: http://vlsidesignconference.org. The areas in which papers could be submitted are:

1. Embedded Systems

Embedded system hardware/software co-design; Reconfigurable hardware design; Embedded software; Real-time operating systems; Middleware and virtualization; Embedded multi-cores and many-cores; Communications; Encryption, security, compression; Hybrid systems-on-chip; Sensor networks; Programmable devices; Hardware-software co-verification; Embedded system reliability; Embedded applications (automotive, mobile, medical, etc.), platforms, and case studies

2. Digital Design

Low-power design; Asynchronous design; Package and board design

3. Analog/RF Design

Low-power design; Analog, mixed-signal, and RF systems; Package and board design

4. System-level Design/ESL

System-level design methodology; Gigascale design methodology; Multicore systems; Processor and memory design; Concurrent interconnect; Networks-on-chip; Defect tolerant architectures

5. Logic Synthesis and Physical Design

Logic synthesis; Technology mapping; Asynchronous synthesis; Physical design; Floor planning; Placement; Routing; Clock Design; Layout issues in design for manufacturability

6. Test and Reliability

Fault modeling/simulation; ATPG; DFT; Delay test; Fault-tolerance; Online test; AMS/RF test; Board-level and system-level test; Silicon debug, post-silicon validation; Memory test; Reliability test

7. Functional Verification

Behavioral Simulation; RTL Simulation; Coverage Driven Verification; Assertion Based Verification; Gate-level simulation; Emulation; Hardware Assisted Verification; Formal Verification; Equivalence Checking; Verification Methodologies

8.Device/circuit simulation and modeling

Design verification; Signal integrity; Technology modeling-design-simulation; Analog/mixed-signal simulation; Multi-domain simulation; Numerical methods; Device modeling; Timing analysis; Asynchronous timing; Device/circuit level variability models; Reliability simulation

9.Emerging Technologies

Issues in nano-CMOS technologies; MEMS; CMOS sensors; CAD/EDA methodologies for nanotechnology; Non-classical CMOS; Post-CMOS devices; Biomedical circuits and systems

Kindly see below the "Important Dates":

Due Date for Abstract Submission: Submissions Closed

Due Date for Full Paper Submission: Submissions Closed

Due date of Acceptance Notification: October 4, 2013

Due date for Camera ready paper : Submissions Closed

Please note once again the Conference Date which is: January 5-9, 2014. For additional details you may go through the attached flyer please.

We wish to welcome all of you to IIT Bombay, Mumbai,India for this conference.

A.N.Chandorkar & Sudhakar Reddy
General Co-Chairs, VLSI Design-2014