Topic Areas for Submission

Within the scope of the conference, the main areas of interest are organised in the following tracks. Submissions can be made to any of the track topics.

Track D: Design Methods and Tools, addresses design automation, design tools and hardware architectures for electronic and embedded systems. The emphasis is on methods, algorithms, and tools related to the use of computers in designing complete systems. The track focus includes significant improvements on existing design methods and tools as well as forward-looking approaches to model and design future system architectures, design flows, and environments.

This track is organised in the following topics:

    D1 System-level design methodologies and high-level synthesis, Click here for details
    D2 System simulation and validation, Click here for details
    D3 Formal methods and verification, Click here for details
    DT4 Design and test for analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems, and MEMS, Click here for details
    DT5 Design and test of hardware security primitives, Click here for details
    DT6 Design and test of secure systems, Click here for details
    D7 Network on chip and on-chip communication, Click here for details
    D8 Architectural and microarchitectural design, Click here for details
    D9 Low-power, energy-efficient and thermal-aware design, Click here for details
    D10 Approximate computing, Click here for details
    D11 Reconfigurable systems, Click here for details
    D12 Logical analysis and design, Click here for details
    D13 Physical analysis and design, Click here for details
    D14 Emerging design technologies for future computing, Click here for details
    D15 Emerging design technologies for future memories, Click here for details
    D16 Design Automation for Quantum Computing, Click here for details

Track A: Application Design, is devoted to the presentation and discussion of design experiences with a high degree of industrial relevance, real-world implementations, and applications of specific design and test methodologies. Contributions should illustrate innovative or record-breaking design and test methodologies, which will provide viable solutions in tomorrow’s silicon, embedded systems, and large-scale systems.

This track is organised in the following topics:

    A1 Power-efficiency and Smart Energy Systems for Sustainable Computing, Click here for details
    A2 Smart Society and Digital Wellness, Click here for details
    A3 Secure Systems, Circuits and Architectures, Click here for details
    A4 Autonomous Systems and Smart Industry, Click here for details
    A5 Applications of Emerging Technologies, Click here for details
    A6 Applications of Artificial Intelligence Systems, Click here for details

Track T: Test and Dependability, covers all test, design-for-test, reliability, and design-for-robustness issues, at system-, chip-, circuit-, and device-level for both analogue and digital electronics. Topics of interest also include diagnosis, failure mode analysis, debug and post-silicon validation challenges, and test or fault injection methods addressing system security.

This track is organised in the following topics:

    T1 Modeling and mitigation of defects, faults, variability, and reliability, Click here for details
    T2 Test generation, test architectures, design for test, and diagnosis, Click here for details
    T3 Dependability and system-level test, Click here for details
    DT4 Design and test for analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems, and MEMS, Click here for details
    DT5 Design and test of hardware security primitives, Click here for details
    DT6 Design and test of secure systems, Click here for details

Track E: Embedded Systems Design, is devoted to the modelling, analysis, design, verification and deployment of embedded software or embedded/cyber-physical systems. Areas of interest include methods, tools, methodologies and development environments for real-time systems, cyber-physical systems, networked systems, and dependable systems. Emphasis is, also, on model-based design and verification, embedded software platforms, software compilation and integration for these systems.

This track is organised in the following topics:

    E1 Embedded software architecture, compilers and tool chains, Click here for details
    E2 Real-time, dependable and privacy-enhanced systems, Click here for details
    E3 Machine learning solutions for embedded and cyber-physical systems, Click here for details
    E4 Design methodologies for machine learning architectures, Click here for details
    E5 Design, specification, modeling and verification for embedded and cyber-physical systems, Click here for details