The 1999 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications (VLSI-TSA)

The 1999 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications will be held in the International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC), June 8 - 10, 1999. VLSI-TSA is the principal symposium held in Taiwan dealing with VLSI technology, circuits, and applications. The Symposium is held every other year. It is sponsored by the Industrial Technology Research Institute, the National Science Council, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, in cooperation with the Chinese Institute of Engineers, ROC, the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association, IEEE Electron Devices Society, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Taipei Section, and IEEE Electron Devices Society Taipei Chapter.

The meeting will consist of a plenary session, a luncheon, and five half-day sessions in two parallel tracks. The invited talks at the plenary and regular sessions are:

Plenary session

• ASET Activities Toward the 21st Century, by Akihiko Ishitani, ASET, Japan
• The 3rd Generation of Mobile Communications: Markets, Systems, and
  Technology Solutions, by Juha Rapeli, Philips Consumer Communications, France
• MEMs Technology and Applications, by Dennis Polla, Mayo, USA

Regular session

• IRAM (Merged DRAM and Logic Technology) for System Applications, by Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley, USA
• Design Challenges for High-Performance SOI Digital CMOS VLSI, by Ching-Te Chuang, IBM Research, USA
• CMOS Scaling Beyond 0.1 mm: How Far Can It Go?, by Yuan Taur, IBM Research, USA
• Practical Resolution Limit of KrF Lithography, by Ralf Schuster, Siemens Microelectronics, Germany
• Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography for 0.1-mm Devices, by Sheila Vaidya et al, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
• Embedded DRAM Technology: Past, Present, and Future, by Hiroshi Takato, Toshiba, Japan
• Embedded Flash Memory Technology, by Kuniyoshi Yoshikawa, Toshiba, Japan
• Trends in Digital Signal Processors, by Aon Mujtaba, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
• High-Performance Microprocessor Design, by Daniel Bailey, Compaq Computer Corp., USA
• RF-CMOS Technology for Wireless Applications: Current Status and Future Prospects, by Asad Abidi, UCLA, USA
• Low-Voltage Analog CMOS Circuit Techniques, by John Fattaruso, Texas Instruments, USA
• Physical Modeling of Transient Enhanced Diffusion in Silicon, by Kenji Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan
• An Interconnect-Centric Design Flow for Nanometer Technologies, by Jason Cong, UCLA, USA
• Gigabit Ethernet over Unshielded Twisted Pair Cables, by Kamran Azadet, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
• Analog Front-End Macro Circuit Design, by Bang-Sup Song, UIUC, USA

There will be a post-conference tour to the Science-Based Industrial Park in Hsinchu and nearby research institutes. For further information on the Symposium, please contact Ms. Rachel Huang at the Symposium Secretariat in Taiwan by phone (+886 3 591 3560), fax (+886 3 582 0056), email (rachel@erso.itri.org.tw), or visit the Symposium website (http://surf.eng.yale.edu/~vlsi/).

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