[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *************** DEADLINE EXTENSION: New Paper Submission Deadline: December 21, 2017. (Final Deadline) IN ADDITION, CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS: http://www.glsvlsi.org/GLSVLSI18-Special-Session-CFP.pdf The 28th Edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Sponsored by ACM SIGDA Conference dates: May 23-25, 2018 Location: Chicago, USA http://www.glsvlsi.org/ The 28th edition of GLSVLSI will be held in Chicago. Original, unpublished papers describing research in the general areas of VLSI and hardware design are solicited. Please visit http://www.glsvlsi.org/·for more information. In addition to the traditional topic areas of GLSVLSI listed below, papers are solicited for a special theme of IoT Hardware and Heterogeneous Computing for Artificial Intelligence. - Track 1: VLSI Design - Track 2: VLSI Circuits and Power Aware Design - Track 3: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) - Track 4: Testing, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance - Track 5: Emerging Computing & Post-CMOS Technologies - Track 6: Hardware Security - Track 7: VLSI for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Details of the requirements that each track places on submitted papers can be found on the conference website. Paper Submission Guidelines ============================ Authors are invited to submit full-length (6 pages maximum), original, unpublished papers along with an abstract of at most 200 words. To enable blind review, the author list should be omitted from the main document. Previously published papers or papers currently under review for other conferences/journals should NOT be submitted and will not be considered. Electronic submission in PDF format to the http://www.glsvlsi.org/ website is required. Author and contact information (name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax, e-mail) must be entered during the submission process. Paper Format: Submissions should be in camera-ready two-column format, following the ACM proceedings specifications located at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template-16dec2016and the classification system detailed at: http://www.acm.org/publications/class-2012. Paper Publication and Presenter Registration: Papers will be accepted for regular or poster presentation at the symposium. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered to the symposium by the time the camera-ready paper is submitted; at least one of the authors is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper. Important Dates ============================ Paper submission deadline: December 21, 2017 Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2018 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 13, 2018 Special Session Proposal submission deadline: January 15, 2018 Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 31, 2018 Organizers ============================ General Chair: Deming Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Co-Chairs: Houman Homayoun George Mason University, USA Baris Taskin Drexel University, USA Finance Chair: Weisheng Zhao Beihang University, China Local Chair: Qi Zhu Northwestern University, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Robert Wille Johannes Kepler University, Austria Yuan-Hao Chang Academia Sinica, Taiwan Miao Hu Binghamton University, USA Special Sessions Chair: Yanjing Li University of Chicago, USA Web & Registration Chair: Yi-Chung Chen SUNY at New Paltz, USA Proceedings Chair: Kyle Rupnow Inspirit IoT, Inc., USA