Special Sessions

Memristive Computing

Organizer: Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang, UC Santa Cruz, USA

Memristors and memristive devices have been recently realized in nanoscale. Several recent implementations have brought forth the potential for revolutions in non-volatile storage and reconfigurable computing. This special session is specifically focused at using memristive devices for computing in programmable systems such as FPGAs.

Open Source Tools and Methodologies for Research

Organizer: Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz, USA

Open source tools enable both academia and industry to research, develop, and share common platforms in complex research tasks. However, most often these open source tools and methodologies are unsung and, in fact, difficult to publish. This special session is specifically focused at recognizing the most important and useful open source tools and methodologies that aid research.

Instructions

Special session papers should present original material not published or submitted for publication in other forums. These papers will undergo normal peer review. Electronic submission in PDF format to the http://www.vlsi-soc.com web site is required. The proceedings will be published by IEEE and available through IEEE Xplore. They will be distributed during the conference to all participants. A selection of the conference best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to be included as chapters of a book to be published by Springer. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (single-spaced, 2 columns, 10pt font). Submissions should be in camera-ready, following the IEEE proceedings specifications.