- Circuit design to address challenges of deeply scaled technologies - e.g. DFM, variability, reliability

- Digital circuit techniques

- Analog and mixed signal circuits such as data converters and amplifiers to address performance, power, technology scaling, and variability

- Complex SOC systems describing new architectures and implementations

- Circuit approaches for clock generation and distribution

- Advances in memory circuits; especially for embedded memories in scaled technologies

- Adaptive power techniques and power management for analog and digital circuits

- Techniques for digitally-assisted analog and analog-assisted digital including digital implementation of previously analog functions

- RF and wireless communications with emphasis on system architecture and implementation

- Circuits for sensors and displays

- Wireline transceiver and I/O design optimized for high bandwidth and low-power spanning from chip-to-chip through long-reach applications

- Fundamentals related to the above, including innovative transistor-level circuit design and circuits for characterizing technology changes and variations