1. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 VLSI-SoC’11 Highlights General Chair: Chi-Ying Tsui Program Chair: Salvador Mir

2. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 –Sponsorship issues CEDA, CASS MOU has been signed –Registration fee Registration in Advance –Members – US$600, Non-members – US$750, Student members - US$300, Student non-members - US$500, Life members - US$300 Registration at the conference –Members – US$800, Non-members – US$950, Student members – US$500, Student non-members – US$700, Life members – US$500 Administrative Issues

3. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 –Registration issues Direct payment and on-line payment are supported We are going to use Paypal for on-line credit card payment –Publication Issues IEEE publication –We have submit the Letter of Acquisition form to IEEE (conference publication) –We have been informed that there is no charge to the conference for acquisition into the Conference Publication Program, which includes the posting of the technical conference papers into IEEE Xplore. –This information is different from what David has told us. Administrative Issues

4. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 –Promotion issues We will send out the another round of CFP in this week. We will check with CEDA, CASS and ACM for the last round of sending of the CFPs. CFP for PhD Forum is also ready and will be sent out with the CFP. Administrative Issues

5. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 The conference will be held in the Grand Ball Room of the Royal Plaza Hotel. (website: http://www.royalplaza.com.hk)http://www.royalplaza.com.hk We have secured the quest room rate for the conference hotel –Superior room (single or double occupancy) – US$125 (not including breakfast), US$135 (including 1 breakfast), US148 (including 2 breakfasts). –Executive Club room– US$175 (single occupancy), US$200 (double occupancy). We are working on the room rate for other hotels. Venue

6. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 Tentatively we have 2 social events At the first night of the conference, we will charter a tour bus to have a local city tour and go to the Victoria Peak to have a grand night scenic view of the Victoria Harbor. Dinner will not be included. At the second night of the conference, we will first have a one- hour boat tour to go around the Victoria Harbor. Then we will have the conference banquet at a boat at the southern part of Hong Kong island. Social Events

7. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 Program structure and TPC Program reduced to 12 topics TPC reduced to 8 members per topic (with one exception 9), including 2 co-chairs and 6 other members. In total 97 members There is a better balance of TPC members between Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America Intention is to keep the TPC more stable than in the past

8. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 At least one topic chair per topic participates in the conference, and about 50% of the topic members. 15 papers per topic, thus a target of 12*15=180 submissions. Acceptance rate of regular papers lower than 30%. TPC targets

9. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 Keynote Talks Joseph Sifakis, Verimag Laboratory, France – Rigorous System Design Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA –Design and Optimization of Thousand-core Systems Ping Keung Ko, former HKUST dean, now in venture capital company –Industry perspective on IC/ SOC design in China

10. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 Other possible talks Rui Martins, University of Macao, China –Suggested by L.M. Silveira: to be seen as a fonction of the program

11. 18 th IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Hong-Kong, 3-5 October 2011 –Biomedical sensor (Prof Jun Ohta) –Emerging technology for future network-on-chip –Energy harvesting system design –Image sensor –Green computing (IBM) Special sessions