CfP: DATE 2015

DATE 2015 in Grenoble: highlighting Electronics Design for the Internet of Things and for Medical Applications

The 18th DATE conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. It puts strong emphasis on ICs/SoCs, reconfigurable hardware and embedded systems, including embedded software.

The five-day event consists of a conference with plenary invited papers, regular papers, panels, hot-topic sessions, tutorials and workshops, two special focus days and a track for executives. The scientific conference is complemented by a commercial exhibition showing the state-of-the-art in design and test tools, methodologies, IP and design services, reconfigurable and other hardware platforms, embedded software, and (industrial) design experiences from different application domains, e.g. automotive, wireless, telecom and multimedia applications. The organisation of user group meetings, fringe meetings, a university booth, a PhD forum, vendor presentations and social events offers a wide variety of extra opportunities to meet and exchange information on relevant issues for the design and test community. Special space will also be allocated for EUfunded projects to show their results.

The Conference

The conference addresses all aspects of research into technologies for electronic and (embedded) systems engineering. It covers the design process, test, and tools for design automation of electronic products ranging from integrated circuits to distributed large-scale systems. This includes both hardware and embedded software design issues. The conference scope also includes the elaboration of design requirements and new architectures for challenging application fields such as telecom, wireless communications, multimedia, healthcare and automotive systems. Persons involved in innovative industrial designs are particularly encouraged to submit papers to foster the feedback from design to research. Panels, hot-topic sessions and embedded tutorials highlight and inform about emerging topics.

DEADLINES

- Paper Submission Sunday September 14, 2014
- Notification of Acceptance Friday November 07, 2014
- Camera-Ready Paper Friday November 28, 2014

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QUICK LINKS

• Conference http://www.date-conference.com
• Call for Papers http://www.date-conference.com/call-for-papers
• Instructions http://www.date-conference.com/submission-instructionsSpecial Days in the programme will focus on two areas bringing new challenges to the system design community:

Designing Electronics for the Internet of Things: Our society is evolving to a point where objects and people will be almost permanently connected and exchanging information. This scenario, called the Internet of Things (IoT), is the result of the convergence in the evolution and integration of communication, computing, storage and sensing technologies. While the potential influence of IoT in our daily life is enormous, there are major challenges related to microelectronics design, novel paradigms for data acquisition and fusion, as well as analysis and storage of the large volume of collected information. This special day investigates how the progress in technologies and applications of IoT can be nurtured and cultivated for the benefit of society.

Designing Electronics for Medical Applications: Progress in microelectronics has enabled the miniaturization of data processing elements, radio transceivers and sensors for a large set of physiological phenomena. Autonomous sensor nodes can monitor(s) vital body parameters in an unobtrusive way during daily life. However, the inherent resource-constrained nature of these systems, coupled with the specific operating conditions, the stringent autonomy requirements and the need for automated analysis for complex biological signals pose important design challenges. This special day will cover the latest trends towards alternative architectures, technologies and design paradigms for low cost, low power, miniaturized devices such as smart wireless sensor nodes.

On the first day of the DATE event, half-day in-depth technical tutorials are given by leading experts in their respective fields. The tutorials are well suited for researchers, tool developers and system designers.

Friday Workshops concentrate on specialised and novel topics.

The Exhibition

The conference is accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition which states a unique networking opportunity for vendors of tools and services for hardware and embedded software for the design, development and test of Systems- on-Chip, IPs, Embedded Systems, ASICs, FPGAs and PCBs including a broad range of design reuse technologies and services.

To inform attendees on commercial and design related topics, there will be a full programme in the Exhibition Theatre which will combine presentations by exhibiting companies, best-practice reports by industry leaders on their latest design projects and selected conference special sessions.

Topic Areas for Submission

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

Track D: Design Methods and Tools, addressing design automation, design tools and hardware architectures for electronic and embedded systems. Emphasis is on methods, algorithms and tools related to the use of computers in designing complete systems. This 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 Specification and Modeling, Click here for details
• D2 System Design, High-Level Synthesis and Optimization, Click here for details
• D3 System Simulation and Validation, Click here for details
• D4 Formal Methods and System Verification, Click here for details
• D5 Design and Test for Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems and Circuits, Click here for details
• D6 Emerging Technologies and Systems, Click here for details
• D7 Power Modeling, Optimization and Low-Power Design, Click here for details
• D8 Network on Chip, Click here for details
• D9 Architectural and Microarchitectural Design, Click here for details
• D10 Temperature and Variability Aware Design and Optimization, Click here for details
• D11 Reconfigurable Computing, Click here for details
• D12 Logic and Physical Synthesis, Timing Analysis and Verification, Click here for details
• D13 On-Chip and Off-Chip Parasitic Extraction, Model Order Reduction and Signal Integrity, 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, as well as innovative design and test methodologies, and applications of specific design and test technologies. Contributions should illustrate state-of-the-art or record-breaking designs, which will provide viable solutions in tomorrow's silicon and embedded systems. In topic A7, there is the opportunity to submit short, 2-page papers that relate to industrial research and practice.

This track is organised in the following topics:

• A1 Green Computing Systems, Click here for details
• A2 Communication, Consumer and Multimedia Systems, Click here for details
• A3 Automotive Systems and Smart Energy Systems , Click here for details
• A4 Ambient Intelligence and Ultra-Low Power Systems for Healthcare and Wellness, Click here for details
• A5 Secure Systems, Click here for details
• A6 Reliable and Reconfigurable Systems, Click here for details
• A7 Industrial Experiences Brief Papers, Click here for details

Track T: Test and Robustness, covering all test, design-for-test, reliability and design-for-robustness issues, at system-, chip-, circuit-, and device-level for both analog and digital electronics. Including also diagnosis, failure mode analysis, debug and post-silicon validation challenges.

This track is organised in the following topics:

• T1 Defects, Faults, Variability and Reliability Analysis and Modeling, Click here for details
• T2 Test Generation, Simulation and Diagnosis, Click here for details
• T3 Design-for-Test, Test Compression and Access, Click here for details
• T4 On-Line Test, Fault Tolerance and Robust Systems, Click here for details
• T5 Design and Test for Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems and Circuits, Click here for details

Track E: Embedded Systems Software, is devoted to modelling, analysis, design and deployment of embedded software. Areas of interest include methods, tools, methodologies and development environments. Emphasis will also be on modelbased design and verification, embedded software platforms, software compilation and integration, real-time systems, cyber-physical systems, networked and dependable systems.

This track is organised in the following topics:

• E1 Real-time, Networked, and Dependable Systems, Click here for details
• E2 Compilers for Embedded Systems, Click here for details
• E3 Model-based Design and Verification for Embedded Systems, Click here for details
• E4 Embedded Software Architectures, Click here for details
• E5 Cyber-Physical Systems, Click here for details

In addition to the above conference tracks, we welcome proposals for Special Sessions, Tutorials and Friday Workshops, and submissions for the Special Days on Designing Electronics for the Internet of Things and Designing Electronics for Medical Applications.
Committees

A full list of the executive and programme committee members is available at:

DATE Executive Committee
Technical Programme Committee

Sponsors

The event is sponsored by the European Design and Automation Association, the EDA Consortium, the IEEE Council on EDA, ECSI, ACM - SIGDA, and RAS. In cooperation with ACM - SIGBED, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), IFIP and IET.
Information

Event Secretariat
Franziska Kremling, K.I.T. Group GmbH, DE
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General Chair
Wolfgang Nebel, OFFIS, DE
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Programme Chair
David Atienza, EPFL, CH
papers@date-conference.com

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