VDAT 2024 : 28th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2024)

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts on the above topics. Papers should be submitted in pdf format (Portable Document Format) as per the IEEE Conference paper format.

1) Emerging Devices and Material Technologies
MOS Device Modeling and Simulation
Multi-gate and other Emerging MOS devices
Si-Photonics and Optoelectronics devices
MEMS/NEMS
Organic electronics
2D and advanced material electronics
Flash memory devices and other emerging memory technologies

2) VLSI Circuit and System Design
Low power, High-performance, and robust design of logic, memory, analog, RF and FPGA circuits
Clock-generation and distribution circuits including all digital PLLs and DLLs
ADC's and DAC's
Soft-error and fault-tolerant circuits
Circuit design for reliability effects such as gate oxide integrity, electro-migration, ESD, HCI, NBTI, PBTI etc.
Hardware accelerators for machine learning (ML) and deep learning algorithms
Hardware implementations of ML algorithms for applications like image/object recognition, computer vision, Speech recognition, and natural language processing
ML-based intelligence in IoT under highly constrained energy/power requirements
Secure and intelligent system on chip (SoC) design for automotive, health and defense applications

3) CAD for VLSI and Hardware Security
Logic and behavioral synthesis
Placement, Routing and Floor planning
CAD tools
Design automation
Hardware attacks-detection
Threat modeling & defense
Hardware-based security primitive design
Trusted design automation, Tool, and information flow

4) Testing and Verification
Design verification, Test, Reliability and Fault tolerance
Formal verification
DFT
Fault modeling
Post-silicon validation
Testing memories and regular logic arrays
Design for manufacturability and yield analysis.

5) FPGA-based Design and Embedded Systems
FPGA-based combinational/sequential logic/circuit design, Hardware/Software co-design and verification
Audio, Image and video processing
Reconfigurable systems
Microcontroller, IoT and FPGA-based embedded systems design
Embedded software
CAD for embedded systems
Artificial intelligence and ML-based systems, Cyber-Physical Systems