CAS-FEST 2012 - The 2012 Circuits and Systems Society Forum on Emerging and Selected Topics (CAS-FEST)

The 2012 Circuits and Systems Society Forum on Emerging and Selected Topics (CAS-FEST) event will be the third event in the series organized by IEEE CAS Society and will be held on May 20th, 2012, in conjunction with ISCAS 2012, at the COEX center, Seoul, South Korea.
Call for papers
The topic of the CAS-FEST 2012 will be heterogenous nano circuits and systems.
The forum is organized in a single track, to intensively cover one focus area at each meeting. CAS-FEST is envisioned by the Circuits and Systems Society as a high-impact, high-quality technical forum. The goal is to match the quality of the accepted papers with high quality of presentations. It is required that the presenter of each paper, who must be identified upon submission, should be the most experienced author of the paper. A student may be the first author of a submitted paper, but the paper must be presented by their advisor, unless all authors are students.
When considering recent developments in this area we see research, prototypes and products for personalized medicine (e.g., chemical and biological analysis, medical stimulators, labs-on-chips), for environmental control (e.g., sensor networks, smart buildings, smart city, smart grid) and for the consumer market (e.g. next generation cell phone systems, displays, image and signal sensors/processors) and many others. All these systems are characterized by heterogeneous materials/technologies, new types of devices based on silicon nano-wires, graphene and carbon nano-tubes fabricated in various technologies, hybrid structures connecting DNA and proteins to a nano-electronic substrate, heterogeneous types of signals, heterogeneous components, heterogeneous sub-systems. Analysis and design of such heterogeneous nano circuits and systems is a very important and only partially solved problem. As it can be expected, this problem will become increasingly more important in the coming years with further development and mixing of technologies and implementations, including 3D integration of circuits and systems.
The prospective authors are invited to submit papers on scientific and technical interest of the following topics (but not limited to):
advanced nanoelectronic technologies and circuits
nano-bio-sensors
sensor and circuit co-design
energy harvesting
energy storage at the nano-scale
Merging heterogeneous technologies
Nano-architectures and self-assembly
Heterogeneous nano-circuits in 3D
Biomedical diagnostic systems
Nano-scale image processing
Authors are invited to submit a 4-page paper in PDF in IEEE 2-column format via electronic mail to the CAS-FEST Editors, for peer review.The Editors seek novel and important contributions, supported by strong experimental evidence.
Selected participants to the CAS-FEST 2012 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the new IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), according to the JETCAS policies and procedures. The accepted papers will be published in the December 2012 issue of JETCAS, pending JETCAS approval.
Deadlines:
Paper submission - initial version January 30,2012
Notification of acceptance March 15th, 2012
Paper submission - version JETCAS June 30, 2012
Notification of acceptance (JETCAS) (tentative) .... September 15, 2012
The 2012 Circuits and Systems Society Forum on Emerging and Selected Topics (CAS-FEST) event will be the third event in the series organized by IEEE CAS Society and will be held on May 20th, 2012, in conjunction with ISCAS 2012, at the COEX center, Seoul, South Korea. Previously, CAS-FEST 2010 was held in conjunction with ICECS 2010, in Athens, Greece and focused on Variation-Aware Design for Nano-scale VLSI, while CAS-FEST 2011 was held in conjunction ISCAS 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and focused on Brain Machine Interfaces. The topic of the CAS-FEST 2012 will be heterogenous nano circuits and systems.
In recent years we have observed spectacular advancements in the area of nano-circuits and systems at several levels, from material and device level to system and application level. It is the purpose of this event to provide the attendees with a cross-section view of nano-electronics at various levels.
New emerging materials provide us with a wealth of new devices such as (silicon) nano-wires, graphene and carbon nano-tubes fabricated in several distinct technologies. Such devices have specific properties, such as memresistivity and ambipolarity. Applications include, but are not limited to, new memory structures, new super-capacitors, and nano-bio-sensors based on hybrid structures connecting DNA and proteins to a nano-electronic substrate.
At the system level, we see the useful and prolific combination of components such as sensors and data acquisition systems, energy harvesting and storage units, signal conditioning, processing and communication subsystems etc. designed in heterogeneous technologies (e.g., in various silicon and carbon technologies). Such systems require research in related areas, such nano-architectures, fault-tolerant nano-computing, self-assembly of nano-structures, heterogeneous nano-structures for biomedical diagnostics and nano-scale image processing.
At the application level, we witness prototypes and products for personalized medicine (e.g., chemical and biological analysis, medical stimulators, labs-on-chips), for environmental control (e.g., sensor networks, smart buildings, smart city, smart grid) and for the consumer market (e.g. next generation cell phone systems, image and signal sensors/processors) and many others.
All these systems have an increasingly larger presence of heterogeneous materials/technologies, heterogeneous types of signals, heterogeneous components, heterogeneous sub-systems - all at nano scale! Analysis and design of such heterogeneous nano circuits and systems is a very important and only a partially solved problem to date. As it can be expected, these problems will become more prominent in the coming years with further development and mixing of technologies and implementations, including 3D integration of circuits and systems.
Editors/Organizers
Giovanni De Micheli EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
E-Mail: giovanni.demicheli-AT-epfl.ch
Maciej J. Ogorzalek Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
E-Mail: maciej.ogorzalek-AT-uj.edu.pl