Resources
Academic reading/writing/presenting
Journal & Conference Lists
- Below are some useful journals and conferences along with their submission deadlines and event timings.
- The lists are specified for the computer hardware/computer architecture field.
Conferences (Alphabetical Order)
| Abbreviation | Conference Name | Website | Submission Deadline | Event Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AICAS | IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems | Link | October | April (next year) |
| APCCAS | IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems | Link | June | November |
| ARC | Intl. Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems | Link | April | August |
| ASAP | IEEE Intl. Conf. on Application-specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors | Link | February | July |
| ASP-DAC | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference | Link | July | January (next year) |
| ATS | Asian Test Symposium | Link | June | October |
| DATE | Design, Automation and Test in Europe | Link | September | March (next year) |
| DFTS | IEEE Intl. Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI & Nanotech. Systems | Link | May | October |
| ESWEEK | Embedded Systems Week | Link | March | September |
| GLVLSI | Great Lake VLSI Symposium | Link | February | June |
| ICCAD | International Conference on Computer-Aided Design | Link | May | October |
| ISCA | International Symposium on Computer Architecture | Link | November | June (next year) |
| ISCAS | IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems | Link | October | May (next year) |
| ISLPED | ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design | Link | March | August |
| ISVLSI | IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI | Link | February | July |
| ITC | IEEE International Test Conference | Link | March | September |
| MCSoC | IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip | Link | May | December |
| MICRO | IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture | Link | April | October |
| NEWCAS | IEEE Interregional NEWCAS Conference | Link | February | June |
| PRIME | Intl. Conf. on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics | Link | March | June |
| SOCC | IEEE International Systems-on-Chip Conference | Link | May | September |
Journals (Alphabetical Order)
| Abbreviation | Journal Name | Website |
|---|---|---|
| JETC | ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems | Link |
| JETCAS | IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems | Link |
| TC | IEEE Transactions on Computers | Link |
| TCAD | IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems | Link |
| TCAS-I | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers | Link |
| TCAS-II | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs | Link |
| TECS | ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems | Link |
| TODAES | ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems | Link |
| TRETS | ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems | Link |
| TETC | IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing | Link |
| TVLSI | IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems | Link |
Tools/Resources
- LaTeX:
- Overleaf (write and share LaTeX online): https://www.overleaf.com/
- MikTeX (Windows): https://miktex.org/
- MacTeX (MacOS): https://tug.org/mactex/
- TeX Live (Linux): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX_Live
- TableGenerator (covert & generate between HTML, Latex, Markdown, MediaWiki): https://www.tablesgenerator.com/
- Plot:
- GNUPlot (plot): http://www.gnuplot.info/
- Matplotlib (plot): https://matplotlib.org/
- Altair (plot): https://altair-viz.github.io/
- Reference management:
- JabRef: https://www.jabref.org/
- Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/start
- Paper summarization (quick but not sure if it is accurate):
- Google scholar PDF Reader: https://scholar.googleblog.com/2024/11/ai-outlines-in-scholar-pdf-reader-skim.html
- Grammar Check (apps and plugins are available):
- Grammarly (I am not sure about its AI writing): https://app.grammarly.com/
- LanguageTool: https://languagetool.org/
How to Read Research Papers
- How to Read a Research Paper by Spencer Rugaber
- Thoughts on Reading Research Papers by Jeff Offutt
- How to Read a Research Paper by Michael Mitzenmacher
- Infographic: How to Read a Scientific Paper by Natalia Rodriguez
- How to Read an Engineering Research Paper by William G. Griswold
- How to Read a Paper by S. Keshav
- How to Read a Research Paper by Tiffany Barnes
- Reading Scientific Papers by Robert Siegel
- How to Read a Scientific Article by Mary Purugganan and Jan Hewitt
- How to Read a Book by Paul N. Edwards
How to Write Research Papers and Dissertations
- Writing a Technical Paper by Professor Michael Ernst
- How to Write a Dissertation by Professor Douglas Comer
How to Give Presentations
- Giving a Technical Presentation by Professor Michael Ernst
- Tips for a Good Conference Talk by Professor Jennifer Widom
How to Make Posters
Poster presentations
- Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation by Thomas C Erren and Philip E Bourne
- Do's and Don'ts of Poster Presentation by Steven M. Block