Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page manuscripts, including figures, tables and references, to the official A-SSCC 2009 website. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. Papers are solicited in the following categories:

Category of Papers
1. Analog Circuits & Systems
Amplifiers, comparators, switch capacitor circuits, continuous-time & discrete-time filters, voltage/current references; DC-DC converters, power-control circuits; IF/baseband analog circuits, AGC/VGA; display driver circuits; non-linear analog circuits.

2. Data Converters
Nyquist-rate and oversampling A/D and D/A converters, sub-circuits for data converters including sample-and-hold circuits, calibration circuits.

3. Digital Circuits & Systems
Design, fabrication, and test of digital VLSI systems; High-speed low-power digital circuits, power-reduction and management methods for digital VLSI, leakage reduction techniques; clock distribution, I/O circuits, reconfigurable logic-array circuits; supply /substrate noise measurement and cancellation for digital VLSI, variation and fault-tolerant circuits.

4. SoC & Signal Processing Systems
System-on-chip, microprocessors, network processors, baseband communication processing system & architectures, low-power signal-processing systems; multimedia processors including video, image, audio and voice processing systems; cryptographic- and security-processing circuits and systems; bio-medical/neural signal processors.

5. RF
Receivers/transmitters/transceivers for wireless systems; narrowband RF, ultra-wideband and millimeter-wave circuits (MMDS, 60GHz); Circuits and sub-circuits for RF front-end, LNA, mixer, power amplifiers, VCOs, frequency synthesizers, RF filters, RF switches, power detectors, active antennas.

6. Wireline & Mixed-Signal Circuits
Receivers/transmitters/transceivers for wireline systems including (but not limited to) LAN, WAN, FDDI, Ethernet, token-ring, fiber channel, SONET, SDH, PON, ATM, ISDN, xDSL, cable-modem; optical/electrical data links and backplane transceivers; power-line communication; Clock generation circuits, PLL, DLL, spread-spectrum clock generation.

7. Emerging Technologies and Applications
Advanced circuit technologies and techniques; ultra-low-voltage and sub-threshold logic design; molecular-, organic-, and nano-electronics; flexible substrates and printable electronics; 3D-integration and novel packaging technologies; compound-semiconductor, superconductive, and micro-photonic technologies and circuits; energy sources and energy harvesting; biomedical and ambient-intelligence; emerging wireless applications and circuits; RFID; analog and optical processors, non-transistor-based analog and digital circuits and systems; advanced memory technologies; spintronics; and quantum storage.

8. Memory
Static, dynamic, non-volatile, and read-only memory; magnetic and ferro-electric memory designs and architectures; data storage and multi-bit-cell-based memory designs; embedded memory architectures, cache-memory systems, multi-port memory, and CAM designs, nano-crystal, phase-change, and 3D memories; yield-enhancement redundancy and ECC techniques; and memory testing and built-in self-test.

Special Session
1. Industry Program
This special category accepts only papers based on state-of-the-art products. The paper may cover specifications, applications, state-of-the-art points, chip photos, chip architecture/software, circuits (not necessarily very original, significant improvement is fine), live demo if any, characterization results, and packaging/testing results.

2. Student Design Contest
A student design contest is held among the accepted papers with system prototypes or measurement results of which operations can be demonstrated on-site. Refer to the web for further information.

Submissions
• ALL submissions (initial and final) must be made on-line from this web site.
• If you are submitting multiple papers, you only need to create one web account.
  Please use the same account (User name & Password) for any additional
  submissions.
• If you need to edit any author information or resubmit your paper, it may be done up
  until the submission deadline. Please use the unique web account you created
  during initial submission, to edit or resubmit.
• Email submissions will NOT be accepted.

Paper Specifications
Use our templates to meet formatting requirements below. Your paper MUST comply with the following specifications:

• Paper Length: Maximum 4 pages, including figures, tables & references
• Paper Size: A4 (210mm X 297mm) or US Letter (8.5" x 11")
• Paper formatting: single spaced, double-column, 9pt font or larger
• Margins (nominal): Top: 0.85" (22mm), Bottom: 0.85" (22mm), Left & Right: 0.7" (18mm)
• Fonts: Embed & Subset ALL fonts in your PDF file. No Type 3 fonts allowed.
• File Format: PDF only
• File Size Limitation: 2.0MB
• Do NOT page number your paper
• Do NOT apply security settings to your PDF file.
  Note: Deviations from the above specifications could impede the review of your paper
              and result in automatic rejection.

Additional Requirements
If your paper is accepted for publication at this conference, you will also need to adhere to the following requirements:

• IEEE policy requires that you send us a signed Copyright Form for each paper. Without this form, we can NOT publish your paper.

• IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.

• REMINDER: At least one author per paper must be registered for the conference.
 
• CFP Paper Sample
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