AUTHOR INFORMATION

Congratulations!!

We have been notified that your paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Workshop on VLSI (WVLSI '00) to be held 27-28 April 2000 in Orlando, Florida.

The following is an author kit to help you in the preparation of your paper. No hard copy author kit will be sent.

Srinivas Katkoori
Univ of South Florida, CSE Dept
4202 East Fowler Ave ENB 118
Tampa FL 33620-5399
Phone: (813) 974-5737
Fax: (813) 974-5456
Email: katkoori@csee.usf.edu

PLEASE NOTE: Your paper is due by 18 February 2000.

PLEASE NOTE: A signed copyright release form is due by 18 February 2000.

PLEASE NOTE: An electronic abstract of your paper is due by 18 February 2000.

Please put the conference name - WVLSI '00 - on all correspondence, on the copyright form, and on any mailing envelope. This will assure that your correspondence is directed immediately to my desk.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:
Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site.
The paper should be uploaded at:
ftp://ftp.computer.org/pub/incoming/proceedings/wvlsi00
Please prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only,
with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation.
Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible.
Fonts MUST be from Latin 1 Fontset. Our PostScript
printers will not recognize any other fonts.
Do not use bitmapped versions of fonts such as
Computer Modern if you can avoid it.
Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files
are available on our Internet site at:
http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm

FILE NAME:
Please save your file using your last name.
Example - John Smith's file would be smith.ps.
If you are submitting two or more files, please
number them: smith1.ps, smith2.ps, etc.
If there is a file with the same name already in the directory,
please use a variation.
Files are regularly moved off the FTP site. Please do not
re-post your paper if you do not see it on the site.

TRANSFERRING TO FTP SITE:
When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between ASCII and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.
Our FTP site: ftp.computer.org
Log on as: anonymous
Place files in subdirectory: pub/incoming/proceedings/wvlsi00

COPYRIGHT FORM:
Please FAX your signed copyright release form to
Anne Rawlinson at (714) 761-1784.
We cannot publish your paper without this permission.
PLEASE NOTE: The copyright form is an attachment to this e-mail.
If you prefer, you may mail your copyright form to the following address:
WVLSI '00 - Anne Rawlinson
IEEE Computer Society Press
10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, California 90720 USA
Telephone: (714) 821-8380

HARD COPY PAPER:
You are expected to send an electronic copy of your paper. In exceptional cases, when this is impossible, a camera-ready hard copy may be sent with the permission of the editor.
Please print your camera-ready manuscript on plain white paper (A4 is acceptable). Your manuscript must be camera-ready. If the print is gray or broken, it will appear that way in the completed book. Manuscripts will be photographed and printed just as they are.

PLEASE NOTE:
There is a $10.00 per page charge which will be collected by the conference for hard copies. Please make checks out to "IEEE Computer Society WVLSI 2000" and identify the conference and paper/author for each check.

Please send hard copy charges to:
Srinivas Katkoori
Univ of South Florida, CSE Dept
4202 East Fowler Ave ENB 118
Tampa FL 33620-5399
Phone: (813) 974-5737
Fax: (813) 974-5456
Email: katkoori@csee.usf.edu

Mail your paper with your copyright form, and enclose a note explaining that you could not submit it to our FTP site (so I won't be searching for it). We recommend using a courier service to insure your paper arrives here on time.
Please send the hard copy to Anne Rawlinson at the following address:

WVLSI '00 - Anne Rawlinson
IEEE Computer Society Press
10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, California 90720 USA
Telephone: (714) 821-8380

Your hardcopy paper must be received by 18 February 2000.

ABSTRACT:
All proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society are now being included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, and are available on-line through our web site.
An E-mailed abstract of your paper is necessary for putting your paper into the on-line version of the WVLSI '00 Proceedings.
Please send an electronic copy of your abstract, as an e-mail in ASCII format and including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and affiliations, to wvlsi00-abs@computer.org. If you do not have e-mail, please save your abstract in ASCII format on a disk and send the disk with your copyright release form.

ATTACHMENTS:
There are several customized attachments to this author kit. They contain:

• AUTHOR GUIDELINES Download
  Instructions on formatting your paper for the proceedings.
  
  
• COPYRIGHT RELEASE FORM Download
  A copyright release form that MUST BE SIGNED AND RETURNED WITH YOUR PAPER. Note that you are stating that the material in your paper is original and you have not previously released copyright to it. We cannot publish your paper without this properly filled-out and signed form.
  
  
• REPRINT ORDER FORM Download
  To use if you wish reprints of your paper. Please make checks for reprints out to the IEEE Computer Society. (The reprints.pdf attachment below will allow you to type your information directly into the form before you print it out.)
  

LATEX MACROS:
LaTeX formatting macros are also available for on our FTP site.

Proceedings 8.5 x 11 format - Filename: IEEE CS latex.zip

Available at:
ftp://ftp.computer.org/pub/outgoing/cspress/proceedings/

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,
Anne Rawlinson
IEEE Computer Society Press
10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264
Fax: (714) 761-1784
Email: arawlinson@computer.org

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authkit.txt
copyrght.pdf
instruct.pdf
reprints.pdf