Bangalore to host VLSID 2010 in January

BANGALORE, INDIA: The 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design and the 9th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID 2010) will be held at the NIMHANS Convention Center in Bangalore from January 3 to 7, 2010.

Over 700 delegates from India and abroad are expected to participate in this premier VLSI Conference in India. The Conference provides a forum for researchers and designers to present and discuss various aspects of VLSI design, electronic design automation (EDA), enabling technologies and embedded systems. The first two days of the conference will feature full day tutorials by worldwide experts and the main technical program of the conference will be held on the following three days.

Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, President & Managing Director, Texas Instruments India will inaugurate the conference on January 5, 2010.

During the Inauguration Session, Prof. Dimitri Antoniadis, Director, Focus Research Center for Materials Structures & Devices, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will deliver the keynote address on “Nano-electronics Challenges for the 21st Century” and Dr. Hermann Eul, Member of Management Board and Executive Vice-President, Infineon will deliver the keynote address on “Deep Submicron CMOS Technology – Challenges for Semiconductor IDM”.

Dr. Larry J Hornbeck, Texas Instruments Fellow and inventor of Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), the chip that became the basis for Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology from Texas Instruments; Dr. Walden C Rhines, Chairman & CEO, Mentor Graphics; Dr. Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Research, HP and Director, HP Labs; Dr. Ahmad Bahai, a Fellow and chief technologist at National Semiconductor; Dr. Gregory F. Taylor, Intel Fellow and Director, Circuit Research Lab in Intel Labs; and Dr. Yervant Zorian, Vice President & Chief Scientist, Virage Logic Corp will deliver keynote addresses during the various sessions.

The theme chosen for this year’s conference is “Affordable Technology for Emerging Markets”. Dr. Srivaths Ravi, General Co-chair of the conference and DFT Lead & Member, Group Technical Staff, Texas Instruments India said: “The theme has been motivated by today’s need for electronic designers to build not just cool gadgets, but also make them low-cost and pervasive for emerging markets and applications. Health care, connectivity, transport, e-governance, education and entertainment in developing economies are the major markets, where the right blend of technology and affordability can serve the social and economic needs of both consumers and industry alike”.

Over 20 companies will showcase their products and solutions during the Conference.

“With the goal to maximize the reach of the conference, this year for the first time, the conference will support virtual participation through ‘conference-to-your-desktop’ said Dr. Mahesh Mehendale, General Co-chair and Texas Instruments Fellow & Director, Center of Excellence for Digital Video, Texas Instruments India.

“The conference technical program will be streamed live on all the three days, so that those VLSI professionals who are not in a position to travel to Bangalore to attend the conference in person can view the conference proceedings over the Internet, right at their desk.”

The conference this year will offer over 75 fellowships to students, researchers and faculty members working in the domains of VLSI and embedded systems.

“This year, for the first time, we are supporting VLSI professionals who are in transition”, said Dr. Mehendale. “Through the tutorials and education forums, the conference will also address skills development and expertise that would help meet bigger challenges as the industry recovers”.

The conference serves as an effective forum for India’s design engineers to listen to the experts on the specific domains they are working on and understand future trend. It also serves as a forum for researchers both in academia as well as industry to share their latest research output with a strong technical community.

The conference aims to cover the entire spectrum of activities in the two vital areas of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and Embedded Systems, which underpin the semiconductor industry.