PAPER PREPARATION KIT FOR THE 12th Annual IEEE International ASIC/SOC Conference "The Road To System-On-Chip" September 15-18, 1999, DoubleTree Hotel National Airport, Washington, DC

1. SEPARATE COVER LETTER

TO INCLUDE:

• Title of paper
• Name, complete mailing address, telephone number, fax number and email address of first author
• Names, affiliations, city, state, and country of additional authors
• Person to whom correspondence should be sent, if other than first author

There are different length limitations for regular papers and short papers. If you are not sure if your paper has been accepted as a short paper or a long paper, please take a look at the Advance Program.

Full Papers:
Your final manuscript should be a maximum of 5 pages (in English), US Letter size (8 1/2" x 11") or A4, following the format described in the attached Author's Guide, including the diagrams. Please note that there is a fee for every additional page over the 5 page limit: $100 for pages 6, and 7, and $200 for page 8 and beyond.

Short Papers:
Your final manuscript should be a maximum of 4 pages (in English), US Letter size (8 1/2" x 11") or A4, following the format described in the attached Author's Guide, including the diagrams. Please note that there is a fee for every additional page over the 4 page limit: $100 for pages 5, and 6, and $200 for page 7 and beyond.

Identify the camera-ready copy as the original. Don't staple this copy! Write your manuscript page numbers, and the assigned session/paper number lightly in non-photographic blue pencil on the top right hand corner of each page, e.g. with an Eagle Sky Blue No. 740 1/2. Do not print/type page numbers, your manuscript will be copyright-identified and paginated in the order of its appearance in the proceedings.

Make one double-sided photocopy of the paper and staple it in the upper left corner.

3. ELECTRONIC VERSION OF YOUR PAPER

An electronic version of your paper in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format has to be sent along with the printed version.
You may send a DOS-formatted disk with the PDF file. If the PDF file is too long to fit on a 1.44MB disk,
you may use a compression program like PKZIP. Please do not send any Macintosh formatted disks.

If your text editor is not able to generate PDF files directly, there are various tools existing for converting PostScript files into pdf. A commercial one is the Acrobat Destiller, but there are also some shareware or freeware programs available.
For example, if you have installed GSview and Ghostscript under Windows95/NT, PDF files can easily be generated by opening the printer setup menu (File->Print), entering 'pdfwrite' as device name and checking the 'print to file' checkbox.
Other conversion tools, including Macintosh- and Workstation-based ones, can be found at http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/toolinfo_convert.asp

Instructions for generating a PostScript file on a PC:
1.) open your paper in your text editor
2.) open the printer setup menu
3.) select a PostScript printer!!!
4.) select the "print to file" option
5.) print the document to a file with the extension .ps
 

4. COPYRIGHT RELEASE FORM

This form must be signed and submitted with your paper.

Please send a biography of the presenting author, session and paper number by email to wmarwalker@aol.com.