Proceedings of the 24th edition of the great lakes symposium on VLSI

Abstract

Welcome to the 24th edition of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2014 held in Houston, Texas. GLSVLSI is a premier venue for the dissemination of manuscripts of the highest quality in all areas related to VLSI, devices and system level design. The venue of this year's GLSVLSI is Houston, which not only has a "Lake Houston" nearby but also is located right next to "Great Gulf of Mexico". You will enjoy the beautiful scenery surrounding Houston as well as the program over the two and a half days of this year's GLSVLSI activity. As for the technical meeting, GLSVLSI 2014 was a resounding success: 179 papers were submitted, including authors from 30 different countries, of which 49 papers were accepted for oral presentation at the symposium (a 27.4% acceptance rate). With poster papers, a total of 76 papers will be presented at the symposium and published in the conference proceedings. The final technical program consists of 29 full presentations and 20 short presentations in 15 oral sessions and 27 posters in two poster sessions. Of these papers in the program, 55.8% are from North America, 18.2% from Asia, 20.8% from Europe, and 5.2% from South America/Australia. GLSVLSI 2014 starts on Wednesday, May 21st, in the morning with an invited keynote talk "VLSI Systems for Neurocomputing and Health Informatics" by Keshab Parhi, University of Minnesota, followed by technical sessions on Reliability, CAD, Energy Efficient Systems, and System Design Methodologies, and an inspiring and entertaining dinner keynote talk "Create, then Innovate" by Gene Frantz. Then, the technical program continues on Thursday, May 22nd with the second invited keynote talk "Smart Nodes of Internet of Things (IoT): A Hardware Perspective View & Implementation" by Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, Texas A&M University, followed by technical sessions which present the latest industrial and academic research covering topics such as Fault-tolerance, Application-specific Circuits and Systems, Reconfigurable Elements, and System-level Optimization. The conference will end by the noon of Friday, May 23rd after the third keynote talk "EDA for Extreme Scale Systems" by Alex Jones, University of Pittsburgh, and sessions on topics of Reconfigurable Systems, Analog Design, Low Power Design, and Emerging Technologies during the morning. Overall, there are 15 regular sessions in the technical program including a session where the "best paper award" candidates will have the opportunity to present their outstanding work.