ICCD encompasses a wide range of topics in the research, design, and implementation of computer systems and their components. ICCD's multi-disciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for developers and researchers to discuss practical and theoretical work covering systems and applications, computer architecture, verification and test, design tools and methodologies, circuit design, and technology.
Track 1. Computing Systems: System architecture; Software-hardware co-design; System support for multi/many cores, co-processors/accelerators; System support for speed, security, reliability, and energy efficiency and proportionality; Virtual memory; System support for emerging technologies; Storage systems for data center and cloud/edge computing, high-performance computing (HPC), exascale system, and serverless computing.
Track 2. Software Architectures, Compilers, and Tool Chains: Software architectures, compilers, programming language/model, firmware, OS, hypervisor, runtime design, and co-design for embedded/real-time systems; Middleware for computing systems, including resource-awareness, reconfiguration, energy/power management, task scheduling; compiler support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and traceability; Processor modeling, optimization and simulation.
Track 3. Hardware Architectures: Design for high-performance, low-power, secure, and reliable processor microarchitectures; Hardware acceleration for computing-intensive/data-intensive applications, such as machine learning, autonomous driving, robotics, quantum, neuromorphic, bio-inspired, etc; In-memory/near-memory computing architectures; Hardware design with emerging technologies, including emerging memory, photonics, etc.
Track 4. Test, Verification, and Security: Design error debug and diagnosis; Fault modeling; Fault simulation and ATPG; Analog/RF testing; Statistical test methods; Large volume yield analysis and learning; Fault tolerance; DFT and BIST; Functional, transaction-level, RTL, and gate-level modeling and verification of hardware designs; Equivalence checking, property checking, and theorem proving; Constrained-random test generation; High-level design and SoC validation; Hardware security primitives and methodologies; Side-channel analysis, attacks and mitigations for processors and accelerators; Interaction between test, security and trust.
Track 5. Electronic Design Automation: System-level design and synthesis; High-level, logic, and physical synthesis; Analysis and optimization of timing, power, variability/yield, temperature, and noise; Physical design, including partitioning, floorplanning, placement, and routing; Clock tree synthesis; Tools for multiple-clock domains, asynchronous, and mixed-timing methodologies; CAD support for accelerators, FPGAs, SoCs, ASICs, NoC, and general-purpose processors; CAD for manufacturing, test, verification, and security; Tools and design methods for emerging technologies (photonics, MEMS, spintronics, nano, quantum); interaction of EDA and AI/ML.
Track 6. Logic and Circuit Design: Circuit design techniques for digital, memory, analog, and mixed-signal systems; Circuit design techniques for high performance and low power; Circuit design techniques for robustness under process variability, electromigration, and radiation; Design techniques for emerging and maturing technologies (MEMS, nano-spintronics, quantum, flexible electronics, multi-gate devices, in-memory computing); Asynchronous circuit design; Signal-processing, graphic-processor, and datapath circuits.
