CENICS 2009 - The Second International Conference on Advances in Circuits, Electronics and Micro-electronics CENICS 2009

The Second International Conference on Advances in Circuits, Electronics and Micro-electronics CENICS 2009

Innovations in special circuits, electronics and micro-electronics are the key support for a large spectrum of applications. The conference is focusing on several complementary aspects and targets the advances in each on it: signal processing and electronics for high speed processing, micro- and nano-electronics, special electronics for implantable and wearable devices, sensor related electronics focusing on low energy consumption, and special applications domains of telemedicine and ehealth, bio-systems, navigation systems, automotive systems, home-oriented electronics, bio-systems, etc. These applications led to special design and implementation techniques, reconfigurable and self-reconfigurable devices, and require particular methodologies to be integrated on already existing Internet-based communications and applications. Special care is required for particular devices intended to work directly with human body (implantable, wearable, ehealth), or in a human-close environment (telemedicine, house-oriented, navigation, automotive). The mini-size required by such devices confronted the scientists with special signal processing requirements.

CENICS 2009 continues a series of events initiated in 2008, capturing the advances on special circuits, electronics, and micro-electronics on both theory and practice, from fabrication to applications using these special circuits and systems. The topics cover fundamentals of design and implementation, techniques for deployment in various applications, and advances in signal processing.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas

Semiconductors and applications

Special semiconductors
Tunable bandgap semiconductors
Piezoelectricity
Polarization
Breakdown voltage
Superconductivity
Ferromagnetism
Biocompatibility
Chemical and thermal stability
Power amplification at very high frequencies
High temperature electronics
LEDs and lasers
Photodetectors
Transistors
Piezoelectric filters
Design, models and languages

Languages and models for specification and design of hardware
Robust, reliable and/or safe embedded electronics
Circuits/hardware description languages
Standards related to design languages
Processor and memory design
Embedded system design
VHDL-related standards
Electronic circuits modelling
Automatic generation of models
Quantitative analysis of models
Distributed CAD systems
Collaborative design based on Internet and WWW
Electronic systems design based on WWW
System- and high-level synthesis, HW/SW codesign
Processing circuits

Signal processing
High-speed signal processing
Multi-scale signal processing and imaging
Asynchronous circuits and systems
High frequency processing
Power and signal amplifiers
Parallel processing circuits
Equalization processing
Compression, transcoding, and applied signal processing
Microelectronics

Micro-electronics
Nano-electronics
Lasers and mini-lasers
Miniature devices
Low power electronics
Nano-scale electronics materials
Electronics technologies

Organic optoelectronic
Implantable electronics
Wearable electronics
Low power electronics
Electronic microarray technology and applications
RF and Microwave
Special circuits

Programmable circuits
Design of reconfigurable micro-chips
VLSI circuits design
Low-noise circuits
Digital modulators
Micro-sensors
Micro-antennas
Thermal circuits
Reconfigurable circuits
Dynamically reconfigurable processors
Oscillators
VCOs and phased-array transmitters
Consumer electronics

Home-oriented electronics
Biometric circuits
Home gateway
Home theater circuitry
Game systems
Interactive and directed programming electronics
Advanced DVD and CD
Interactive and directed programming electronics
Application-oriented electronics

Navigation electronics
Industrial electronics
Automotive electronics
Application-oriented electronics
Telemedicine and eHealth electronics
Biochip design for health science applications
Bio-systems and miniature instruments
Biosensors and biosensor networks
Industrial measurement electronics
Industrial control electronics
Energy distribution electronics
Energy saving and conversion circuits
Indoor and outdoor light control systems
Power electronics
Avionics electronics
Railways electronics
Vehicular electronics
Embedded electronics
Process industry electronics
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The CENICS 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) May 20, 2009
Notification June 25, 2009
Registration July 12, 2009
Camera ready July 15, 2009

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "WIP: Work in Progress". Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference¡¯s CD collection. Please send your presentations to petre-AT-iaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre-AT-iaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.

For more information, petre-AT-iaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre-AT-iaria.org.