Chair: Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, NL, Contact

Co-Chair: Dominique Borrione, TIMA Labs, FR, Contact

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Modeling and specification methodologies for complex, HW-SW embedded systems; (formal) models of computation and their (static) analysis; modeling and analysis of functional and non-functional system properties; concurrency models; multi-domain/multi-criteria specifications and models; application and workload models; requirements engineering; system-level modeling and simulation of multi- and many-core SoCs; Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) and model refinement; modeling of system adaptivity; system modeling and specification languages; model-driven engineering; meta-modeling; executable specifications; specification driven design and validation flows.

Chair: jamadtu [dot] dk, Contact

Co-Chair: Luciano Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino, IT, Contact

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Synthesis of complete systems, application- and domain-specific synthesis techniques; system-level models for design, optimization and synthesis; hardware/software co-design and partitioning issues; hardware/software interface and communication synthesis; interface-based and correct-by construction designs; system-level scheduling techniques; protocol synthesis and optimization; system optimization for all cost functions (timing, electrical, non-functional); multi-objective, classical and nature-inspired optimization techniques for system level design; large-scale and industrial case studies involving full system optimization and synthesis.

Chair: Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan, US, Contact

Co-Chair: Franco Fummi, Universita' di Verona, IT, Contact

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Simulation-based verification; post-silicon validation; hardware/software co-simulation and validation, ATPG for validation; transaction-level validation; semi-formal verification techniques; testbench generation; design error debug and diagnosis; advanced simulation and emulation techniques from system to circuit level; simulation accelerators; multi-domain simulation techniques for mixed systems.

Chair: tudor [dot] murganintel [dot] com, Contact

Co-Chair: Domenik Helms, OFFIS, DE, Contact

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Design methods, techniques and case studies of low power systems, covering aspects from specification, mapping, new algorithms, system architecture to circuit; including power minimization techniques for analog and digital circuits, HW and SW aspects, power management, batteries, energy harvesting, thermal aware computation and technology aware design aspects in nanometer technologies (i.e., leakage, variability, reliability, 3D stacking, etc.).

Chair: Massimo Poncino, Politecnico di Torino, IT, Contact

Co-Chair: jian-jia [dot] chenkit [dot] edu, Contact

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Algorithms, techniques and tools for power and temperature modeling, estimation and optimization of electronic systems applicable at all levels of the design hierarchy, from system-level specification to layout, including software and run-time management.

Chair: yuanxiecse [dot] psu [dot] edu, Contact

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System design methods, models of computation, and case studies for emerging applications: ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, wearable computing, sensor networks, bio-inspired computation; Design automation flows and case studies for upcoming and future technologies: MEMS, BIOMEMS, Lab-on-a-chip, 3D integration, nanoscale and molecular scale circuits and systems.

Chair: Wolfgang Kunz, University of Kaiserslautern, DE, Contact

Co-Chair: Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino, IT, Contact

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Formal verification and specification techniques (including equivalence checking, model checking, symbolic simulation, theorem-proving, abstraction and refinement techniques, and real time verification); technologies supporting formal verification (including SMT, SAT, BDD, ATPG, and related work); semi-formal verification techniques; applications and case studies; formal verification of IPs, SoCs, cores and real-time/embedded systems; verification in practice, namely the integration of verification into the design flow.

Chair: Davide Bertozzi, University of Ferrara, IT, Contact

Co-Chair: Federico Angiolini, iNoCs, CH, Contact

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Architecture, modelling and design techniques for network on chip; design methods for the on-chip interconnection network: interconnect topology, switching, routing and flow control methods; architecture and design for fault-tolerance, reliability enhancement, quality of service, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; techniques and methodologies for NoC testing; GALS synchronization architectures for networks-on-chip; physical design techniques and methodologies; hardware/software communication abstraction, component-based modelling, platform-based design and methodologies, NoC design space exploration frameworks; programming models for NoC-based platforms; design of on-chip networks based on alternative technologies such as photonics/optics, wireless, 3D stacking.

Chair: laura [dot] pozziusi [dot] ch, Contact

Co-Chair: Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore, SG, Contact

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Architectural and microarchitectural design techniques, memory systems, power and energy efficient architectures, multi/many-core architectures, multithreading techniques and support for parallelism, modelling and performance analysis, advanced computer architecture for application-specific applications, special purpose processors and accelerators, arithmetic architectures, future and emerging architectures.

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Synthesis of hardware systems from high-level descriptions; hardware-centric system-level synthesis, analysis, and optimization; high-level language hardware description, parsing and compilation; scheduling, allocation, and binding of operations, variables, and transfers; automatic design and optimization of datapaths, dedicated memory and communication structures, and controllers; performance, cost, and power driven architectural-level optimizations; application-specific processor generation, automatic processor customization, and accelerator synthesis.

Chair: Fadi Kurdahi, University of California at Irvine, US, Contact

Co-Chair: Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, DE, Contact

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Statically and dynamically reconfigurable and reprogrammable systems and components: platforms and architectures, FPGAs, reconfigurable processors, design methods and tools for reconfigurable computing and communication, applications.

Co-Chair: Sachin Sapatnekar, University of Minnesota, US, Contact

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Logic-level optimization, including techniques driven by timing, power, variability, or reliability; combinational and sequential synthesis; technology mapping; controller/FSM synthesis; arithmetic circuits; FPGA synthesis; asynchronous and mixed synchronous/asynchronous circuits; timing analysis for nanometer-scale circuits; combined logic synthesis and layout design; timing closure; logic-level postsilicon performance correction and adaptation.

Chair: r [dot] h [dot] j [dot] m [dot] ottentue [dot] nl, Contact

Co-Chair: Azadeh Davoodi, University of Wisconsin - Madison, US, Contact

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Floorplanning; automatic place and route; module generation; design rule checking and layout characterization; electrical verification; problems in deep sub-micron and high-speed design; interconnect-driven and performance-driven layout; process technology developments; design for manufacturability.

Chair: catherine [dot] dehollainepfl [dot] ch, Contact

Co-Chair: dundarboun [dot] edu [dot] tr, Contact

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CAD for analogue and mixed-signal circuits and systems: Layout, Topology generation, Architecture and System Synthesis, Modelling of AMS circuits and systems, Modelling strategies, Modelling of complex analogue mixed-signal systems, Model generation, Formal and Symbolic Techniques; Languages for AMS circuits and systems: VHDL-AMS, Verilog-AMS, SystemC-AMS, Matlab/Simulink, Ptolomy; Innovative circuit topologies and architectures: Topologies/architectures that increase robustness, Topologies/architectures that increase re-usability; Modelling and Synthesis of Multi-Domain systems: MEMS, Energy Harvesting Systems.

Co-Chair: Stefano Grivet-Talocia, Politecnico di Torino, IT, Contact

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Modelling, characterisation and analysis of on and off chip interconnects and packaging; modelling and analysis of noise due to electromagnetic interaction on signal, power/ground and substrate; electromagnetic emission, susceptibility and compatibility.

Chair: Tajana Simunic Rosing, UCSD, US, Contact

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Practical design experiences in industrial projects or academic projects with high industrial relevance targeting high performance, parallel, or information technology systems with a focus on energy efficiency. Target systems can be massively parallel (super) computers, 2D/3D many-core systems, cloud computing approaches, or intelligent combinations of such technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: new software architectures for massively parallel systems, software solutions to cope with hardware failures, new memory hierarchy architectures, low-power single and multi-core architectures, new interconnect architectures, novel energy efficient system designs, energy efficient programming techniques.

Chair: Frank Kienle, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, DE, Contact

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Practical design experience for communication, multimedia and consumer systems like smartphones, smart-books/tablets; examples are digital integrated circuits design of flexible baseband processing systems, Intellectual Properties for wireless communication, design challenges for software defined radio systems; embedded systems design in the field of audio, video and vision domain; Application Specific Processors (ASP)/ Digital Signal Processors (DSP) for these domains.

Chair: Marco Di natale, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, IT, Contact

Co-Chair: Davide Brunelli, University of Trento, IT, Contact

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Practical design experiences for transportation and energy generation and distribution systems and applications: analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems, high voltage structures and integrated sensors and transducers, RF architectures, networks of systems, energy scavenging and harvesting methods from environmental sources. Practical applications of design methods to transportation and energy systems, including models, methods and tools, design of hardware and software components, architecture analysis and optimization, component-oriented design and system-level analysis and validation. Hardware and software solutions to address energy management: components of different nature with focus on energy generation, energy saving, novel energy harvesting, battery management, renewable energy subsystems and optimization of system energy efficiency.

Chair: chris [dot] vanhoofimec [dot] be, Contact

Co-Chair: Yihui Chen, Bio Engineering Laboratory (BEL), ETH Zurich, CH, Contact

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Medical, healthcare, and life science applications require increasingly smarter and smaller devices and personalized medicine will lead to a significant increase in both complex lab solutions as well as a myriad of consumer-like disposable devices. Application examples such as multi-physics nano-bio transducers, cellular interfacing chips, multi-parameter biosensors, pharmaceutical assay chips, implantable and wearable wireless devices for patient monitoring and therapy will reveal complex heterogeneous microsystem designs and design methods, multi-level modeling approaches, co-development of design and process technology.

Chair: Jérôme Quévremont, Thales, FR, Contact

Co-Chair: Patrick Schaumont, Virginia Tech, US, Contact

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Secured systems need a combination of hardware, software and embedded techniques to succeed. Indeed, the weakest link in the security chain determines the overall system security. This topic therefore invites papers on novel technologies and experiences for specific security problems as well as overall design integration methods for secure systems-on-chip and embedded systems. Topics of interest are situated at all design abstraction levels and include novel techniques and architectures for embedded cryptography; modeling, characterization, simulation and associated countermeasures for side-channel, fault and other physical attacks; random numbers generation, embedded secure processors and co-processors, trusted computing, off-chip memories and network-on-chip enciphering and integrity checking, trust establishment and attestation; implementation of security applications; hardware enabled security, including physically unclonable functions, and more.

Chair: jayalaucm [dot] es, Contact

Co-Chair: santambrmit [dot] edu, Contact

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This topic covers the area of reliable and adaptive systems for practical applications. The scope of this topic includes, but not limited to, the development, optimization and practical application mechanisms to compensate for aging and temperature, development of fault-tolerant systems, redundant designs and applications, reconfigurable systems and applications, static and dynamic reconfiguration techniques, context-aware applications and self-adaptive architectures.

Chair: Enrico Macii, Politecnico di Torino, IT, Contact

Co-Chair: Ahmed Jerraya, CEA Leti, FR, Contact

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Short or brief papers with a limit of two pages are solicited that relate to industrial research and practice: commercial and market trends; future research demand; developments in design automation, embedded software, applications and test; emerging markets; technology transfer mechanism. Product presentations and announcements are strongly discouraged and will not be considered for publication.

Chair: Sandip Kundu, University of Massachusetts, US, Contact

Co-Chair: Bram Kruseman, NXP Semiconductors, NL, Contact

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Identification, characterization and modeling of defects, faults and degradation mechanisms; Defect based fault analysis, Simulation and ATPG of defect based faults; Reliability analysis and modeling techniques, FMEA and Physics of failure; Test for noise and uncertainty; Design for Reliability and Design for Variability and their impact on test; Test and reliability of redundant systems; Test and reliability issues in the presence of leakage; Challenges of ultra low-power design on test and reliability; Modeling and test techniques for physical sources of errors such as process, voltage and temperature variations; Error-resilient nano design systems.

Chair: Nicola Nicolici, McMaster University, CA, Contact

Co-Chair: Grzegorz Mrugalski, Mentor Graphics Poland, PL, Contact

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Test pattern generation; high-level TPG; delay TPG; fault simulation; test generation for validation, debug and diagnosis; low-power TPG; TPG for memories and FPGAs.

Chair: Hans Kerkhoff, University of Twente / CTIT, NL, Contact

Co-Chair: Tracy021 Tracy021, 123, BH, Contact

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Test techniques for mixed-signal, RF and multi-GHz electronics; test techniques for embedded MEMS/bioMEMS/MOEMS sensors and actuators; assembly engineering for SiP/SoC/SoP/PoP; Failure modeling and analysis techniques; defect characterization and fault modeling; fault simulation and test generation algorithms; DfT/DfM/DfY/DfR (DfX) techniques; BIST; test coverage metrics and statistical modeling; effective defect screening techniques; diagnosis and self-repair.

Chair: Sybille Hellebrand, University of Paderborn, DE, Contact

Co-Chair: rkapursynopsys [dot] com, Contact

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Design for test, debug and manufacturability; built-in self-test and built-in diagnosis; synthesis for testability; test resource partitioning, embedded test; test data compression; scan-based test and diagnosis; BIST for memories and regular structures, low power DfT techniques, DfT for secure systems, Dft economics. Testing at various levels of a system: embedded core, System-on-Chip, System-in-Package, board, system; testing 3D (TSV-based) chips; Network-on-Chip test; system-level debug and validation; hardware/software system test; processor based test; infrastructure IP; industrial test: test equipment, including ATE hardware and software, probe stations, handlers; multi-site testing; economics of test; case studies.

Chair: Cecilia Metra, University of Bologna, IT, Contact

Co-Chair: Lorena Anghel, TIMA, FR, Contact

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Transient fault evaluation; soft error susceptibility; on-line testing and fault tolerance for signal integrity; concurrent monitors and diagnosis; coding techniques; in-field testing and diagnosis; on-line testing; high availability systems; secure and safe circuits and systems design; dependability evaluation, dependable system design; redundant systems design; hardware/software recovery; self-repair; fault tolerance; on-line testing and fault tolerance for industrial applications.

Chair: liparisssup [dot] it, Contact

Co-Chair: Peter Puschner, Vienna University of Technology, AT, Contact

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Real-time programming languages and software; formal models for real-time systems; software performance analysis; worst case execution time analysis; scheduling and software timing estimation; real-time system optimization; tools and design methods for real-time, networked and dependable systems; adaptive real-time systems; dependable systems including safety and criticality; software for safety critical systems; network control and QoS for embedded applications; software for sensor networks and networked applications;

Chair: bfrankeinf [dot] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk, Contact

Co-Chair: Heiko Falk, Ulm University, DE, Contact

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Software synthesis; compilers; code generation; dynamic compilation for embedded systems; software generation tool chain; software environment and generation for design space exploration (compilers, simulators, synthesis tools); retargetable compilers for MPSOC and reconfigurable platforms; compilers for embedded multi-core systems; compiler and software synthesis for low power

Chair: Wang Yi, Uppsala University, SE, Contact

Co-Chair: Saddek Bensalem, Université Joseph Fourier, FR, Contact

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Model-based methods for embedded system design; verification of embedded systems; model-based software architectures; model-based design for control applications; model-based software testing, software/system integration and deployment; tools for model-based embedded system design; software verification;

Chair: Gabriela Nicolescu, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, CA, Contact

Co-Chair: Oliver Bringmann, FZI, DE, Contact

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Software architectures for MPSoC, multi/many-core and GPU-based systems; programming languages for embedded MPSoC, multi/many-core and GPU-based systems; virtualization for embedded systems, including safety and security aspects; resources constrained middleware and Run-Time Environment (RTE) architectures; software support for reconfigurable components and accelerators; software architectures for low power and low temperature;

Chair: Samarjit Chakraborty, TU Munich, DE, Contact

Co-Chair: Kan Qian, TU/e, NL, Contact

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High-level design, optimization and analysis of networked control and switched control systems; control/architecture co-design for distributed embedded systems; formal semantics, verification, model checking and abstraction refinement techniques for control software and systems; simulation and testing; architectures; modeling techniques; architecture-aware controller synthesis; model-based approaches to cyber-physical systems design; reliability-aware design and fault-tolerance; certification issues; specification languages and programming support; case studies in cyber-physical systems such as from automotive systems and avionics, smart buildings and smart grids;