Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits

The Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits are two closely connected international conferences on semiconductor technology and circuits, thereby offering an opportunity to interact and synergize on topics of joint interest, spanning the range from process technology to systems-on-chip. The Symposia take place once a year around the middle of June at locations alternating between Kyoto, Japan and Honolulu, USA. They bring together managers, engineers, and scientists from industry and academia around the world to discuss challenges in manufacturing and design of Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) circuits. The Symposium on VLSI Technology started in 1981 while the Symposium on VLSI Circuits was established in 1987. Beside regular presentations of technical papers, the Symposia comprise short courses, panel sessions, and invited talks conducted by experts in the field from both Industry and Academia.

Sponsors

The Symposium on VLSI Technology is sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society and the Japan Society of Applied Physics in cooperation with the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. The Symposium on VLSI Circuits is sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and the Japan Society of Applied Physics in cooperation with the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and the IEEE Electron Devices Society. Extended versions of selected papers from the Symposium on VLSI Circuits are regularly published once a year in a special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

Symposia 2016

The 2016 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii between Monday, 13-Jun-2016 and Friday, 17-Jun-2016.

• The conference theme for 2016 is "VLSI Inflection for a Smart Society," reflecting the transition from More Moore to More Than Moore technologies in support of the increasingly connected society enabled by the Internet of Things.
• The Circuits plenary session will highlight talks from Google on machine learning and Sony covering advances in and impact of image sensors.
• The Technology plenary session features the impact of MEMS sensors in a talk from InvenSense, as well as a presentation on intelligent mobility from Nissan.
• The Executive Panel, moderated by Dan Hutcheson of VLSI Research Inc., includes industry leaders discussing the "Semiconductor Business: Inflections Beyond Scaling."
• The 1st Calls for Papers are now available for Technology and Circuits.
• Advanced Program
• Early Registration closes May 24.

Symposia 2015

The 2015 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits were held at the RIHGA Royal Hotel, Kyoto, Japan between Monday, 15-Jun-2015 and Friday, 19-Jun-2015.

• Advanced Program
• Early Registration closes May 11
• Plenary sessions addressed robotics, technology needs for future consumer devices, commercialization of the Internet of Things (IoT), and autonomous driving.
• Joint technology and circuits sessions covered design in scaled technologies, design enablement, memory technologies, and 3D-integration (TSV).
• For the first time, the circuits symposium encourages submissions of papers beyond the chip context in areas related to IoT sensing, industrial electronics, big data processing/storage systems, and robotics and smart car.

Symposia 2014

The 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits were held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii between Monday, 09-Jun-2014 and Friday, 13-Jun-2014.

• Advance Program
• Joint circuit and technology focus sessions were offered in the following special topics of mutual interest: 3D Circuits & Applications, 3D Systems & Packaging, Design/Technology Co-Optimization, Non-volatile & Emerging Memory, and SRAM & DRAM.
• This year, a Luncheon & Executive Panel did debate on "Emerging Semiconductor Industry Trends and Implications" (Link)
• A joint technology-circuits panel session addressed the question: "Who Gives Up on Scaling First: Device & Process Technology Engineers, Circuit Designers or Company Executives? (Link)
• The 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits were preceded by three full-day short courses: "High Performance Mobile SoCs Enabled by 10nm SoC Technology" (Link), "Advanced Data Converter & Mixed-Signal Circuit Design", and "Advanced Energy-Efficient Digital Design" (Link).
• Also, the Symposia were accompanied by two satellite workshops, the 2014 Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (June 8–9) and the 2014 Spintronics Workshop on LSI (June 9) at the same location.

Symposia 2013

The 2013 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits were held in Kyoto, Japan between 2013-06-11 and 2013-06-14 with more than 1000 microelectronics engineers, managers and researchers attending.

• IEEE SSCS Magazine provides a summary report
• The Technical Programs are available on the Symposia's web site (Circuits / Technology).
• Highlights of the technical program are provided in Chinese, Englisch, Japanese and Korean (Editor Press Center)
• The Symposia were accompanied by two satellite workshops, the 2013 Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (June 9–10) and the 2013 Spintronics Workshop on LSI (June 10) at the same location.

Additional information

• Press Release Web-Site with information in Chinese, Englisch, Japanese, and Korean
• IEEE Conference Server
• IEEE Xplore Digital Library
• LinkedIn Discussion Group

Related Conferences

• Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
• Design Automation Conference (DAC)
• FD-SOI Workshop (succeeding the VLSI Symposia)
• International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)
• International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC - adjacent to the VLSI Symposia)
• International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
• Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SNW - preceding the VLSI Symposia)
• Spintronics Workshop on LSI (preceding the VLSI Symposia)

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• Intel’s Long Awaited Return to the Memory Business (Real World Technologies 2013)
• Premier mid-year gatherings for microelectronics engineers, managers and researchers (IEEE SSCS 2013)
• Roach-Net Radio - The son of the cyborg moth is a radio-equipped cockroach (IEEE Spectrum 2013)
• VLSI Symposium eyes 65-nm logic (EETIMES 2003)
• VLSI papers weigh 65 nm, new circuits (EETIMES 2004)
• VLSI SYMPOSIUM REPORT: Chipmakers, consortia reveal HK+MG integration (ElectroIQ 2007)
• Report from VLSI Symposium: Planar CMOS to 22nm, at most (ElectroIQ 2008)
• Report from the VLSI Symposium: Less spirited, still informative (ElectroIQ 2009)
• TI details TSV integration in 28-nm CMOS (EETIMES 2012)
• Intel to Present on 22-nm Tri-gate Technology at VLSI Symposium (ElectroIQ 2012)
• The Beginnings of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits (JSSC 1997)
• Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC)
• New Joint Sessions at the 2012 IEEE Symposia on VLSI Circuits and Technology (IEEE SSCS Magazine 3/2012)
• Eight Joint Sessions Spark Interdisciplinary Discussions at the 2012 VLSI Symposia (IEEE SSCS Magazine 4/2012)
• Breakthroughs in transistors and more to be discussed at VLSI Symposia 2013 (ElectroIQ 2013)
• Intel’s Long Awaited Return to the Memory Business (Real World Technologies 2013)
• Premier mid-year gatherings for microelectronics engineers, managers and researchers (IEEE SSCS 2013)
• Roach-Net Radio - The son of the cyborg moth is a radio-equipped cockroach (IEEE Spectrum 2013)
• Intel’s e-DRAM Shows Up In The Wild (Solid State Technology 2014)
• The 2013 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits - Commemorating the Past and Heading into the Post Planar CMOS Future (IEEE SSCS Magazine 4/2013))