Timing and Performance

• Methodologies and tools for the analysis, design and verification of timing and performance properties of integrated circuits and systems at all levels of abstraction;

• Design for yield, design for manufacturability;

• Simulation tools;

• Design and issues concerning asynchronous systems;

• Special timing or performance related topics, e.g. synchronization, side-channel attacks.

• Coupling efffects: analysis, modelling, simulation & experimentation

Low Power and Thermal-aware Design

• Design techniques for thermal-aware and low power circuits and systems

• Power/thermal-aware synthesis and floorplanning

• Policies for power and thermal optimization

• Power/Thermal Estimation and Optimization

• Power/Thermal-aware architectures

• Hardware-software interaction for power/temperature minimization

• Energy-harvesting

• Low Power Systems: wireless sensor networks, mobile computing

Compilers, operating systems and runtime systems

• Power efficiency through parallelizing compilers or parallel programming

• Concepts for programming novel multi-core architectures

• Real-time system compilers, operating systems and run-time systems

FPGAs and GPU-based accelerators

• Novel accelerator-based architectures and architectural features

• High-Level Abstractions and CAD tools for using accelerators

• Neuro-Inspired Accelerators for Computing

• Customized processor instruction sets

• Compilers optimizing for dynamically reconfigurable processor arrays (DRPAs)

• Case studies and challenges on DRPAs and accelerators

Power-efficient High-performance ICT and Data Centers

• Supercomputing: compilers, operating systems, run time systems

• Hardware-software interaction for low power high-performance

• Modeling and analysis of energy costs for ICT subsystems and infrastructures

• Power analysis for data centers, supercomputers, communication networks

• Cross layer approaches and new paradigms for power efficiency in ICT

• Power-efficient I/O interfaces and NoC design

• Low power high performance in extreme scale supercomputing

• Heterogeneous HPC by new storage technologies

• Case studies: test cases, or design study challenges on data stations or supercomputers

Application-specific power efficiency by algorithmic and analytic efforts

• Aplication of Computational Intelligence to implement high-performance systems (Neural Networks, Suport Vector Machines, Self-Organizing Maps, Neuromorphic systems)

• Banking, financial modeling and financial database acceleration

• Social networks, games, entertainment, ambient intelligence, ubiquitous and wearable computing

• Bioinformatics, bio-inspired, medical, and genetics systems and life sciences

• Physics and astronomy, weather prediction, oil and gas exploration.

• Security systems, cryptography, object recognition and tracking, global navigation satellite systems

• Audio/video, imaging, smart cameras, PDAs, smart image sensors, Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC), etc. Aerospace, avionics, automotive and railway, and many other application areas

Design for aging

• Aging effects and their impact on circuits

• Aging-aware models

• Aging-aware timing and power analysis

• Circuit aging prediction

• Aging-aware design

Case studies

• Wireless health, green computing, ultra low-power embedded systems, displays

• Examples, studies or challenges presenting innovative solutions for thermal and power efficiency

• Studies and experiences in using Azido

• Studies on energy efficiency by paradigm shift, by heterogeneous solutions or new storage technologies

• Case Studies on power efficiency of data stations

• Security systems, cryptography, object recognition and tracking, global navigation satellite systems

• Audio/video, imaging, smart cameras, PDAs, smart image sensors, Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC), etc. Aerospace, avionics, automotive and railway, and many other application areas