Proceedings of the 26th edition on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

Abstract

Welcome to the 26th edition of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2016, held at Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Boston, MA, USA. GLSVLSI is a premier venue for the dissemination of manuscripts of the highest quality in all areas related to VLSI, devices, and system-level design. The location of this year's GLSVLSI is Boston, which continues GLSVLSI's tradition of organizing meetings near noted bodies of water. While not a "great lake", the Charles River flows across the Greater Boston area, separating the city of Boston from Cambridge. The basin of the Charles River is located in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and serves as the starting point of the Boston Marathon. While the marathoners run 26 miles to the city, the Charles River twists and turns for 80 miles before ending its journey in Boston Harbor, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. The Greater Boston area, consisting of Boston and its surrounding neighborhoods, is the 10th largest metropolitan area of the US. Boston is one of the oldest cities in the US, and was the first city to open a public school and a transportation system in the country. Boston is truly an intellectual, technological, and political hub. It is home to around 50 universities and colleges, making it one of the most prominent centers of higher education and medicine internationally. Boston is experiencing substantial industrial growth, particularly in the fields of computer and electrical engineering. Each year, millions of tourists visit Boston to explore the city's historic landmarks, to include Faneuil Hall,Fenway Park (home of the Boston Red Sox), Boston Common, and Harvard Square. Boston University, located along the Charles River, is in the heart of the city with easy access to all major tourist attractions, parks, concert venues, and museums. Boston is a great location for this highquality symposium on VLSI, and we believe that you will enjoy the beautiful city as well as the symposium. This year's special theme for GLSVLSI is Hardware and System Design for Security and Privacy. To support this theme, we have organized several keynote talks by recognized experts and dedicated three special sessions to this topic. On Wednesday we will open the symposium with Marc Witteman, the Chief Executive Officer of Riscure in the Netherlands, who will speak about building secure chips. Kevin Fu, professor at University of Michigan and the Chief Scientist of Virta Labs, will talk about medical device security on Thursday afternoon. On Friday, Ingrid Verbauwhede, professor at University of Leuven in Belgium and at UCLA, will deliver another keynote talk on low power embedded encryption. Special sessions on the hardware security theme cover Internet-of- Things security (Wednesday), emerging technologies and security (Thursday), and a panel on future of hardware security research with speakers from industry, government agencies, and academia (Friday). In addition to including a substantial amount of focus on the hardware security theme, we made sure to provide perspectives on other cutting edge topics to enrich and diversify the symposium program. Yusuf Leblebici, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, will talk about multi-sensor vision system design on Thursday. Also on Thursday, we have an exciting special session discussing synthetic biology research, explicitly targeting the VLSI and EDA communities. As for the technical content, GLSVLSI 2016 had outstanding statistics: 197 papers were submitted, by authors from 25 different countries, of which 50 papers were accepted as full papers for oral presentation (with a 25% acceptance rate). Including poster papers, a total of 71 papers will be included in the symposium and published in the proceedings. Of the authors of these papers in the program, 53% are from the Americas, 28% from Asia, and 19% from Europe. The final technical program consists of 21 long presentations and 29 short presentations in 12 oral sessions, and 21 posters in two poster sessions. Special sessions add another 9 exciting papers to the proceedings of the symposium. GLSVLSI 2016 starts on Wednesday, May 18th 2016, with an exciting line up of speakers on a broad range of issues including hardware security, encryption, new methods in CAD and network-on-chips (NoCs), low-power systems and emerging memory designs, and stochastic computing applications. On the second day, in addition to continuing the discussion on CAD and VLSI design challenges, we have technical sessions focused on error resilience and robustness, emerging technologies and post- CMOS VLSI. On the third day, further discussions are dedicated to the innovative solutions for emerging technologies, low-power systems, and VLSI design. The technical program of GLSVLSI 2016 contains two parallel tracks to allow the inclusion of more papers and extensive discussions during the three days of the symposium. Overall, there are 12 regular sessions, 4 special sessions, and 2 poster sessions in the technical program. Four outstanding papers have been selected as candidates for the best paper award and will be presented in different technical sessions (as marked in the program). The best paper award will be announced at the symposium banquet on Thursday evening. The social events of GLSVLSI 2016 include two special events this year. The first event is a reception cocktail on Wednesday evening at the historic Boston University Castle. Then, on Thursday, May 19th, in a special version of the famous "Boston Duck Tour", attendees will get a chance to see various Boston monuments and neighborhoods, and enjoy a short trip on the river. The 1-hour tour will be followed by the symposium banquet that will be held at the Boston University Trustees Ballroom.