IEEE/ACM 2022 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD 2022)

1.1 System Design

• System-level specification, modeling, simulation, design flows
• System-level issues for 3D integration
• System-level design case studies and applications
• HW/SW co-design, co-simulation, co-optimization, and co-exploration, platforms for emulation and rapid prototyping
• Micro-architectural transformation
• Multi-/many-core processor, GPU and heterogeneous SoC
• Memory and storage architecture and system synthesis
• System communication architecture, Network-on-chip design
• Modeling, simulation, high-level synthesis, power/performance analysis, programming of heterogeneous computing platforms
• Application driven system design for big data
• Analysis and optimization of data centers

1.2 Embedded, Cyber-Physical (CPS), IoT

• Systems and Software
• AI and machine learning for embedded systems
• HW/SW co-design for embedded systems
• Compute, memory, storage, interconnect for embedded systems
• Domain-specific accelerators
• Energy/power management and energy harvesting
• Real-time software and systems
• Middleware, virtual machines, and runtime support
• Dependable, safe, secure, trustworthy embedded systems
• Embedded software: compilation, optimization, testing
• CAD for IoT, edge and fog computing
• Modeling, analysis, verification of CPS systems
• Green computing (smart grid, energy, solar panels, etc.)
• CAD for application domains including wearables, health care, autonomous systems, smart cities

1.3 Neural Networks and Deep Learning

• Hardware and architecture for neural networks
• Compilers for deep neural networks
• Design method for learning on a chip
• System-level design for (deep) neural computing
• Neural network acceleration including GPU and ASICs
• Safe and secure machine learning
• Hardware accelerators for Artificial Intelligence

1.4 Reconfigurable Computing

• Novel reconfigurable architectures (FPGA, CGRA, etc.)
• Neural network acceleration on reconfigurable accelerators
• High-level synthesis on reconfigurable architectures
• Compilers for reconfigurable architectures
• Reconfigurable fabric security
• HW/SW prototyping and emulation on FPGAs
• Post-synthesis optimization for FPGAs
• FPGA-based prototyping for analog, mixed-signal, RF systems

1.5 Hardware Security, Security Architecture
and Systems

• Hardware Trojans, side-channel attacks, fault attacks and countermeasures
• New physical attack vectors or methods for ASICs
• Nano electronic security
• Hardware-based security (CAD for PUF’s, RNG, AES etc.)
• Split Manufacturing for security
• Supply chain security and anti-counterfeiting
• Artificial Intelligence for attack prevention systems
• Design and CAD for security
• Security implications of CAD
• Trusted execution environments
• Privacy-preserving computation
• Cloud Computing data security
• Sensor network security

1.6 Low Power and Approximate Computing in
System Design

• Power and thermal estimation, analysis, optimization, and management techniques for hardware and software systems
• Energy- and thermal-aware application mapping and scheduling
• Energy- and thermal-aware architectures, algorithms
• Energy- and thermal-aware dark silicon system design
• Hardware techniques for approximate/stochastic computing