Overview of the Asian Pacific conference on ASIC 2000

The 2nd IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on ASIC (AP-ASIC), hosted by the IEEE ED/SSC Seoul Chapter, was held at Hotel Shilla Cheju, Cheju, Korea, 27–30 August 2000. The objective of AP-ASIC is to promote research and development activities of solid-state circuits in the Asia-Pacific region. AP-ASIC 2000 featured 2 tutorials, 3 keynote speeches, 4 embedded tutorials, and 97 presented papers (83 papers in 17 regular sessions and 14 papers in 3 special sessions). The total number of registrants from five countries (Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and India) was 170 and there were 22 tutorial attendants. The brief summary of the technical activities follows.