Interconnections within digital computers and switches can critically limit overall system performance. This Workshop will examine interconnection requirements of emerging and future computer and communications systems, and discuss state-of-the-art solutions in wired and wireless, optical and electrical interconnection technologies. The Workshop will consider interconnection technologies at the component, packaging, and systems levels.
Because of the multi-disciplinary nature of the interconnect problem, this Workshop brings together researchers and engineers with expertise in a variety of fields including electronic, optoelectronic, and optical interconnection technologies. It covers the full spectrum of high performance interconnect challenges from chip-scale to systems-scale architectures in networking, communications, and high performance computing platforms. The Workshop is comprised of tutorials, invited talks of the highest caliber, and contributed student posters. In addition, attendees participate in smaller working groups to discuss and design a conceptual solution to a predefined design problem. This problem promotes an overall focus to the meeting and also facilitates interactions between the participants.

Early Registration Deadline: 16 April 2007
Workshop Hotel Accommodations Deadline: 16 April 2007
The Workshop Committee is soliciting proposals for invited talks. Because the Workshop covers a broad range of topics important to the design of future digital systems, invited paper proposals should emphasize work on a forward-looking approach to interconnect design, computing system scalability, interconnect bandwidth, or interconnect technology trade-offs. Analysis, technology projections, and industry roadmaps are also topics of interest. Authors should emphasize the importance and impact of their work on a broad range of future computing challenges and address the practical realism of interconnect design including cost and manufacturability.
Authors are invited to submit a 1-page abstract and a short biography of the presenting author. Submissions must be in either plain text (email), an MS Word file, or an Adobe PDF file, and sent via email to Samantha Blodgett in the IEEE/LEOS office at s.blodgett@ieee.org
Authors will be notified by 31 January 2007.

Call for Invited Paper Proposals
Submission Deadline: 15 January 2007
Call for Student Posters
Submission Deadline: 2 April 2007
This year’s workshop will include a special session for poster presentations of student research projects. All students working on research related to high speed interconnects are encouraged to submit their work to be considered for this session. Professors with students working in this area are invited to encourage their students to submit posters. Travel grants to support attendance at the conference may be available and submissions will be judged competitively for these awards.
Submissions must be in the form of a 1-page extended abstract and optionally up to five pages of graphics, and images that are representative of the poster content. All submissions should be in Adobe PDF or MS PowerPoint format and sent via e-mail to Samantha Blodgett in the IEEE/LEOS office at s.blodgett@ieee.org
Authors will be notified by 11 April 2007.