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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">It is our pleasure to invite you to DCIS 2024. The conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated
Systems (DCIS) is an international meeting for researchers in the highly active </span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">fi</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">elds
of micro- and nano-electronic circuits and integrated systems. It provides an excellent forum to present and discuss works on the emerging challenges o</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">ff</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">ered
by technology, in the areas of modeling, design, implementation and test of devices, circuits and systems. This 39<sup>th</sup> edition is organized by the University of Catania.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.dcis2024.org/" target="_blank" title="URL originale: https://www.dcis2024.org/. Fare clic o toccare se si considera attendibile questo collegamento."><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">READ
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Topics of interest include:<br>
• Analog / mixed signal circuits and systems<br>
• Design of power-, thermal- and variability-aware circuits and systems<br>
• New computing and hardware paradigms<br>
• Circuits and systems in advanced and emerging technologies<br>
• Reconfigurable devices and systems<br>
• Embedded and high-performance computing<br>
• EDA tools and methods<br>
• Industrial and power electronics<br>
• Sustainable computing and systems<br>
• Sensory circuits and systems<br>
• Energy management and harvesting<br>
• Test, fault tolerance, reliability and modeling<br>
• Radiofrequency ICs (6G, RFID, NFC, …)<br>
• On-Chip and off-chip interconnects<br>
• IoT and applications (industry 4.0, personalized healthcare, …)<br>
• Hardware security<br>
• Educational Methods on Electronics</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">The 6<sup>th</sup> edition of the PhD Poster Competition is scheduled. Apart from Poster displaying
during all the conference, PhD Students can briefly explain their research advances and discuss with the conference attendees during coffee breaks. The participant achieving the highest score in both the poster presentation and the subsequent discussion will
be honored with an award and will have the opportunity to showcase his/her work during the closing session of the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">Submission deadline for PhD Posters Proposal: June 7th, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.dcis2024.org/home" target="_blank" title="URL originale: https://www.dcis2024.org/home. Fare clic o toccare se si considera attendibile questo collegamento."><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT">https://www.dcis2024.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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