Headline: 24th International Conference on VLSI Design & 10th on Embedded

Systems inaugurated
Summary: The 24th International Conference on VLSI Design and 10th on Embedded
Systems organized by VLSI Society of India was inaugurated by Prof. V G Idichandy,
Deputy Director, IIT–Madras today at the institute campus who also released the VLSI
souvenir on the occasion. In all 330 research papers were received out of which 66 were
accepted and are being presented at the conference.

Body: Chennai, January 4, 2011: Delivering the keynote address, Thomas H Lee,
Professor, Stanford University, said,“VLSI Design and embedded systems are core
technologies that are behind the electronic products that we use widely today including cell
phones, music players, and computers. There is a need to have discussions on the trend
and future of this segment as these are the backbone of all electronics used widely today in
various domains such as Communications, Consumer, Industrial, Automotive, Defense and
Health Care. I strongly believe embedded to be the next big thing driven by the increasing
pervasiveness of microprocessors in all walks of life.”

Speaking on VLSI Design from Indian academician perspective, Praveen Vishakantaiah,

President, Intel India said, “With India projected to consume $50 billion worth of
embedded electronics by 2020 it is emerging as a market of focus and the future. The key
challenge we face today is lack of research efforts and researches. This is critical as that is
the pinnacle of the embedded and VLSI arena and fuels innovation. An encouraging sign is
the increasing number of partnerships companies in this space are entering into with
educational institutes for doing research programs and internships.”

Kamakoti, General Co-Chair, VLSI and Professor at Department of Computer

Science and Engineering, IIT-Madras speaking on the general vision of VLSI Design
Conference 2011 said, “One area of focus for the conference is to make students
understand the phenomenal opportunity in the embedded and VLSI arena. And by listening
to and seeing the innovations happening be inspired to take it to greater heights through
their intelligence and effort. Realizing this importance, we have designed the conference
with several complementary parts – full-day tutorials, research paper presentations, special
sessions with invited embedded tutorials, hot topic presentations, keynote and banquet
talks, and the industry and education forums.”
In his comments, Prof. Vishwani Agrawal of Auburn University, US and Member of
VLSI committee, added, “VLSI Design 2011 will definitely add value to the industry by
providing a platform for the experts to discuss the issues of this industry. After 13 years, we
have organized the annual premier joint conference of India at Chennai as we foresee the
city emerging as a potential hub for the industry”.

VLSI Design 2011 focuses on “Embedded products for emerging markets- Infrastructure,
Energy & Automotive” as the key conference theme and will see more than 100 eminent
global and Indian industry experts share trends, opportunities and challenges of India’s
growing VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) sector. Discussions and deliberations will focus
on technology, manufacturing, markets, applications, finance and policy and a first-of-its-
kind workshop on Reliability Aware System Design and Test (RASDAT) (Jan 6 th & 7th). The 3
day conference will also include technical paper session on latest research and embedded
tutorials. Industry presentation sessions, panel discussions and design contests and
industrial exhibits to round off the program. Eminent speakers at the event include; Rahul
Sarpeshkar (Associate Professor, MIT): Bioelectronics, Kaushik Roy (Professor, Purdue
University): Post-Silicon technologies: Prospects and Perspectives, Anant Agarwal (CTO,
Tilera and Professor, MIT): The Future of Multicore, Peter Kinget (Associate Professor,
Columbia University): Designing Analog and RF Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies:
Scale the Supply, Reduce the Area and Use Digital Gates, Rajeev Madhavan (CEO, Magma
Design Automation): Real Men do Real Silicon, Leon Stok (VP, IBM): High-end Processor
design in Advanced CMOS Technologies. The Conference covers the entire gamut of
activities under the two folds of Semiconductor Industry - VLSI and Embedded systems

About VLSI Society of India/VLSI Conference: The mission of the society is to make
India a significant force in VLSI field and to promote applications and research related to all
aspects of VLSI in India. VSI holds workshops and short-courses through the year, in all
parts of the country to bring together the industry, academia and mainly the students, on
hot and emerging topics of VLSI and the related. VSI welcomes volunteers to get involved in
such activities. VSI publishes the half-yearly technical journal VSI VISION. It also compiles
softcopies of the proceedings of all workshops, short-courses and VDAT Symposium, which
has hardcopy publication additionally. International Conference on VLSI Design and
International Conference on Embedded Systems is the annual international event, that VSI
is associated with and sponsors that attracts a wide spectrum of VLSI related professionals
and academia.

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