Follows are the author's guide for your oral presentation and workshop participation, together with the short brief description of the "intent", "audience", and "format" of this conference to aide your preparation.

1. What is the "intent" of the conference?
As shown in the web page (www.icicdt.org) and the final program including the "conference vision" and "conference overview", ICICDT is a collaboration forum for those special technical topics, which require close cooperation of all three fields -- design/device/process -- of IC design & technology. Therefore, for the purpose of accelerated "product time-to-market", most of the current hot topics, which require close cooperation of all these three fields, are strategically selected and covered in this conference, through the tutorial, full paper proceeding, short oral presentation to highlight key points, and also immediately following one-hour workshop session for direct feedback, through interactive question & answer. This workshop is not only designed to help the attendees, but also more importantly designed to help the presenters/authors to have opportunities to observe the general response & industry direction in a more relaxed environment.

2. Who is the conference "audience"?
Conference "audiences" are the presenters and regular attendees from all three fields -- design, device, & process. However, they are not only specialists in their own fields, but also more importantly they are familiar or at least "interested in & willing to learn" the other fields. They understand the needs of close interaction and collaboration for trade-off and optimization for the purpose of overcoming the challenge imposed by new IC industry trend. The challenge is: "Advanced IC technology is no longer offer the same level of control over many key parameters that have direct adverse impact on circuit behavior, and at the same time new IC designs also push the limit of technology. Consequently, in some cases, re-tuning of certain process module even after the manufacturing started, or rapid adaptation of new design scheme or technology module are required". They are frontier of this intertwined world. Therefore, please feel free to present without adding any restriction.

3. What is the conference "format"?
All conference papers (invited and submitted papers) are participating in both short oral presentations - 10min for both an invited paper and a submitted paper (to address key points -- e.g. key conclusions, discovery, issues, challenges, solutions, proposal, suggestion, but without question & answer session) and then one-hour of workshop at the end of each session as shown in the final program. During the hour-long workshop, all authors of Invited & Submitted papers, which were presented in the session, will also host their own posters. You can, under a more relaxed environment, have direct interactions with interested attendees for any question or suggestion including some details did not covered during short oral presentation. It may be very interesting how some attendees try to help solve your issues from all three fields (with or without knowing the detail).

4. Oral presentation:
As mentioned in the earlier section, all of the audiences have three opportunities from each paper -- paper with full length, short oral presentation, and also one-hour workshop for direct interactive interactions. Therefore, during the oral presentation time, please prepare as many slides as you need to quickly communicate your ideas, you may want to flash through those slides to cover the key points, without the burden & stress of being a detailed lecturer, since the details can always be covered in the follow-up workshop session. Although presentation time is limited to 10 minutes, presentation materials can be worth the normal presentation length of 20 to 50 minutes.
** Deadline of presentation material submission **
Please provide us all the presentation slides in PowerPoint format by May 19th via the on-line submission page of our web. If you cannot give us your file by May 19th, please contact Chair/Administrator at 'admin@icicdt.org' in advance. In the case, you would like to use other format then PPT or any help, please feel free to contact Chair/Administrator at 'admin@icicdt.org' .

5. Workshop preparation:
Conference will provided a poster board of the size of 3 feet by 2 feet to you when you register during the morning registration time, and also will provide an author preparation room for you to prepare the poster.

a) Please prepare hardcopies of your slide by yourself.
We will prepare a PC and a printer at the registration desk for you to make hardcopies. However, we recommend you to make them in advance and bring them to the conference , because there could be a long queue at the PC and the printer. You can use CD-ROM and USB memory at the PC.
b) Please post your slide on the poster boards at the author preparation room before your workshop starts.

We recommend that all the authors have at least a set of hardcopy of full presentation slides with you, although the board has limited area. These will help in discussion.

We, as committee member, hope that you can enjoy the relax environment of this conference and receive enough new ideas and also feel the dynamics of all these three fields for your next IC design and/or technology projects.

Thank you very much for your participation and help. Please feel free to contact us for any question or assistance.