The 20th International Conference on VLSI Design to address challenges and opportunities in Nanoelectronics

Bangalore, November 9th: The 20th International Conference on VLSI Design and the 6th international conference on Embedded systems, a global industry conference representing all aspects of the semiconductor design ecosystem has called for registrations from interested participants, with special offers for registrations before November 26, 2006. The participants can register online at http://www.vlsiconference.com/regd/registration.php.

The conference is scheduled from 6th to 10th January 2007, at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore, India. This conference has the status of an IEEE conference.

There is an extensive five-day program, which will consist of regular paper sessions - with over 150 papers on cutting edge work, special sessions, embedded tutorials, panel discussions, design contest, industrial exhibits. The conference will be preceded by two days of tutorials by eminent industry veterans, with 15 in-depth technical tutorials covering areas ranging from low power design to various SOC design issues and RF related issues. The 2007 conference has a particular emphasis on the challenges and opportunities in Nano-electronics - specifically CMOS technology in the Nanometer dimension. Senior industrialists, academic scholars and design engineers from leading organizations from across the globe will attend the conference.

Some of the topics that will be discussed in the conference include - Organic Electronics: Technology, Devices, Circuits and Applications, SoC Communication Architectures: Technology, Current Practice, Research and Trends, RF Analysis and Simulation with focus on RF & SiP Methodology, Automated Application Engine Synthesis from C Algorithms, Performance Debugging of Complex Embedded Systems, Real-time Operating Systems for Embedded Systems Development, Low Power Design Techniques for SOCs and Microprocessors

These sessions will be presided by eminent speakers who excelled in their domains. Some of the key note speakers are Wim Roelandts, President, CEO and Chairman of Board, Xilinx Corporation, J.Augusto De Oliveira, Vice President & Senior Fellow of NXP Semiconductors, Rene Penning de Vries, Senior Vice President and CTO, NXP Semiconductors, Mark Horowitz, Professor and Director Computer Systems Lab, Stanford University, Sandip Tiwari, Professor and Director, Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University, Ahmed Bahai, Chief Technologist and Fellow, National Semiconductors, Ajith Amerasekera, Director Technology Strategy and ASIC CTO, Texas Instruments, Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentilli, Professor, of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Roberto Guerrieri, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy.

The conference expects to have over 1000 delegates attending.

For more information and online registration please visit

http://www.vlsiconference.com/regd/registration.php