Symposium  IX: Circuit Design, Systems and Applications
Circuit Design Techniques and Methodology
-          Novel digital, analog and mixed signal design
-          Design and implementations
Design tools and methodology
-          Synthesis
-          Timing
-          Physical design
-          Design for test
Design Verification
-          Functional verification
-          Verification using hardware accelerators and/or FPGA
Design for Manufacturability and Reliability 
Design  and Process interaction
System Integration 
-          System packaging 
-          Power
-          Thermo/cooling
-          System interconnect
-          System reliability
System Software
-          Control
-          Firmware
-          Operating systems
-       User programming interfaces
Applications
-          Mobile applications
-          Embedded system applications
-          Low power wearable and medical computing applications
-          Innovative sensor network applications
-          High performance computing applications