Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022

Abstract

Welcome to the 27th edition of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2017, held at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. 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 Lake Louise in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, which is a glacial lake in Banff National Park. The lake's emerald color and beautiful scenery attracts millions of visitors to the location in the summer. The lake is frozen over in the winter, making it one of the largest natural skating rings in the world. Lake Louise water comes from the Victoria glacier which is visible from the hotel venue. Several hiking trails and ski hills can be accessed from the Lake Louise area. The conference venue, Fairmount Chateaux Lake Louise, is a luxury hotel that was built at the turn of the 20th century by the Canadian Pacific Railway one of their grand railway Hotels. Banff national park is a gem in the Canadian Rockies and has been declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The park was established in 1885 and consists of Alpine trails, numerous glaciers, dense forests and natural hot springs. Banff national park hosts more than three million tourists annually who come to enjoy the natural beauty and the amenities of the parks. The park is located 110 km west of the city of Calgary, Canada's third largest municipality, and the engineering capital of Canada. Calgary has a vibrant economy with many innovators and entrepreneurs who work in the energy sector. We believe that the natural beauty of the area combined with the engineering and the entrepreneurial mindset of Calgary makes Lake Louise a great location for this high-quality symposium on VLSI, and that you will enjoy the beautiful surroundings as well as the symposium program over the three days of this year's GLSVLSI. GLSVLSI 2017 starts on Wednesday May 10th 2017, with an exciting line up of speakers on a broad range of issues including VLSI Design, hardware security, new methods in computer-aided design (CAD) and network-on-chips (NoCs), low-power systems and emerging memory designs, bio chips and biological systems and emerging computing applications. Overall, there are 10 regular sessions, 4 special sessions, and 2 poster sessions in the technical program. Seven outstanding papers have been selected as candidates for the best paper award and will be presented in different technical sessions (as marked in the program). We have four special sessions during the three days of the conference. In the first special session on Wednesday, we will explore Low Power Computing based on Non-Volatile Memories. This is followed by two special sessions on Thursday on the Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuit (3D IC) Security and Logic Obfuscation for IoT Security. On Friday, the fourth special session on Efficient IoT Systems will be held. As for the technical meeting, GLSVLSI 2017 had outstanding statistics: 197 papers were submitted, including authors from 27 different countries, of which 48 papers were accepted as full papers for oral presentation at the symposium (with a 24.4% acceptance rate). Including papers presented as poster, a total of 72 papers will be included in the symposium and published in the symposium proceedings. Special sessions add another 16 exciting papers to the proceedings of the symposium. In addition to great technical talks, we have organized several keynote talks from recognized experts. On Wednesday we will open the conference with a talk from Dr. Leland Chang who will speak about Cognitive Data Centric Systems. Dr. Niraj K. Jha will talk about Internet of Medical Things on Thursday morning. On Thursday at lunch Dr. Andrew Putnam will discuss FPGAs in the Datacenter - Combining the Worlds of Hardware and Software Development. On Friday, Dr. Alex Jones will deliver another keynote talk on Green Computing: New Challenges and Opportunities. In addition, we have organized a session on innovation on Friday afternoon. Dr. Alex Bruton who is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Calgary, will give a talk on ideation and the entrepreneurship mindset. This will be followed by an innovation challenge where participants will work on developing ideas using EDA and embedded systems tools. The social events of GLSVLSI 2017 include two special events this year. The first event consists of a reception cocktail on Wednesday evening at the Chateau Lake Louise. Then, on Thursday May 11th, a hiking trip is planned to walk around Lake Louise. The 1-hour hiking trip will be followed by the conference banquet.