RESEARCH MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONDAC is the premier event to showcase cutting-edge research achievements in the design and design automation of electronic circuits and systems. The 2018 edition of DAC welcomes high-quality manuscripts on design automation algorithms, tools and methodologies (EDA track), the design of circuits, architectures, and systems (DES track), embedded systems and software (ESS track). Areas of special interest include automotive electronics, security, machine learning, and the Internet-of-things. Acceptance rates for manuscript publication are uniform across all topic areas and have been around 21-23% for the past several years.

Abstract Deadline – November 14, 2017Manuscript Deadline – November 21, 2017

DESIGNER/IP TRACK SUBMISSIONThis year, Designer Track and IP Track are interweaved to encourage more synergy between designers and IP developers, will include presentations, poster sessions and a rich set of invited talks/panels to facilitate information exchange and interactions. It offers a unique opportunity to network with and learn from other industry experts about best practices and current trends.

Submission Deadline – January 23, 2018

PANEL PROPOSALA good panel session explores a single high-level issue or question and includes representatives of differing viewpoints. Controversy is appropriate and encouraged. The topic should be relevant to multiple segments of DAC attendees. This year DAC has the following topic areas: Automotive, Design, EDA, ESS, IoT, IP, Machine Learning/AI, and Security/Privacy.

Submission Deadline – November 21, 2017

SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALDAC seeks proposals for the Research Track Special Sessions, Designer Track Invited Presentations and IP Track Invited Presentations. These sessions intend to highlight timely, visionary and emerging topics for the respective audience.

Submission Deadline – November 21, 2017

TUTORIAL PROPOSALDAC is looking for timely, relevant and tangible hands-on topics that provide immediate value and learning for its attendees on design, methodology, design automation fundamentals, as well as automotive electronics, hardware and embedded system security, machine learning, and Internet of Things.

Submission Deadline – November 21, 2017

WORKSHOP PROPOSALDAC invites you to submit a workshop on emerging topics related to design, design methodologies, and design automation as well as automotive electronics, hardware and embedded system security, machine learning and Internet of Things. Workshop proposals should address topics which span the interest of many suppliers and users, and are not specific to a single vendor for advertisement or endorsement of their technology.

Submission Deadline – November 21, 2017

COLOCATED CONFERENCE PROPOSALSave your attendees and your organization time and money by colocating your conference with the 55th Design Automation Conference in San Francisco, CA, June 24 - 28, 2018

Submission Deadline – November 21, 2017

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• DESIGN SESSIONS DAC has served as a meeting place for designers of electronic systems and providers of electronic design automation tools for over five decades. Increasingly, the challenges faced by the industry require cross-domain interaction of researchers and practitioners working on electronic design (circuit, architecture, and embedded systems design) and researchers working on design methodologies and tools. DAC serves this need by covering design as a topic area in the research track, in addition to organizing a dedicated designer track for practitioners. The design topics covered in the research track include the design of cyber-physical and Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems, SoC architectures, accelerator-based computing, emerging models of computation such as brain-inspired and quantum computing, digital and analog circuits, and emerging device technologies. Separately the Designer Track allows tool users to share challenges and benefits of different tools, flows, and methodologies. In addition, it provides excellent opportunities for education and networking between end users and tool developers. There is no other way to improve your “design IQ” in such a short amount of time than to attend the Designer Track.

• EDA SESSIONSEDA (Electronics Design Automation) is becoming ever more important with the continuous scaling of semiconductor devices and the growing complexities of their use in circuits and systems. Demands for lower-power, higher-reliability and more agile electronic systems raise new challenges to both design and design automation of such systems. For the past five decades, the primary focus of research track at DAC has been to showcase leading-edge research and practice in tools and methodologies for the design of circuits and systems. In addition to the traditional EDA topics ranges from physical design to system architectures, DAC features high-quality papers on design research, design practices, and design automation for cross-cutting topics including low-power, reliability, multicore/application specific/heterogeneous architectures, 3-D integrations, emerging device technologies, design automation of “things”, and their applications. DAC’s EDA technical program has been ensuring the best-in-class solutions that promise to advance EDA.

• ESS & AUTO SESSIONSEmbedded systems are an increasingly diverse, disruptive, and challenging field for designs ranging from mobile devices, medical devices, automotive, industrial and beyond. Embedded software is built into devices that may not necessarily be recognized as computing devices (e.g., thermostats, toys, defibrillators, and anti-lock brakes), but nevertheless controls the functionality and perceived quality of these devices. For example, premium vehicles can have several million lines of embedded software code running on hundreds of electronic control units. Within the car, these sub systems connect with one another by in-vehicle networks. As the trend towards automated driving and connectivity accelerates, the ability to deliver these innovations depends more than ever on advanced electronics and software development. Embedded systems design is the art of choosing and designing the proper combination of hardware and software components to achieve system level design goals like speed, efficiency, reliability, security, and safety. Embedded software is of growing importance in embedded systems of all kinds. The Embedded Systems and Software sessions and the Automotive sessions at DAC provide a forum for discussing the challenges of embedded design and an opportunity for leaders in the industry and academia to come together to exchange ideas and roadmaps for the future for this rapidly expanding area.

• IOT SESSIONSThe Internet of Things (IoT) continues to drive innovation in electronic systems. Its definition is inherently broad, encompassing everything from industrial automation, to wearable devices, to home security. Its components range from energy harvesters and smart sensors to data centers. What’s needed to design these systems? IoT sessions at DAC aim to cover the entire spectrum, providing a holistic overview of IoT-related content in diverse areas, such as EDA methodologies and tools, reducing power consumption, security approaches and lightweight authentication, techniques for assembling needed IP for IoT systems, and methods for managing the complexity of automotive systems. Each of these has a role to play in the IoT design landscape and yet each is a challenging problem in and of itself.

• IP SESSIONSIntellectual Property (IP) is increasingly complex, diverse, innovative, and challenging. The complexity is driven by increasing requirements for higher integration levels that are reusable; the diversity to satisfy varying environmental conditions and constraints dictated by the different target markets. In addition, the evolution of IP is being driven by innovative architectures to address the latency-power-performance needs of new disruptive applications, such as machine learning. The IP challenges are to cope with the complexities of advanced technology nodes.IP design is the art of choosing and designing the proper combination of analog, digital, RF hardware and software components to achieve sub-system-level design goals like speed, power, latency, efficiency, reliability, security, and safety. EDA tools, automation and methods are continuously improved to help architect, develop, verify and manage the ever more complex IP and IP portfolios.

• MACHINE LEARNING/AI SESSIONSMachine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) is a new addition to the DAC 2018 program highlighting advances in the field with a focus on design and design automation at the cross section between ML/AI algorithms and hardware. While artificial intelligence and artificial neural network research has been ongoing for more than half a century, recent advances in accelerating the pace and scale of machine learning enabled by tensor-flow based gradient optimization in deeply layered convolutional networks (convnets) are revolutionizing the impact of artificial intelligence on every aspect of our daily lives, ranging from smart consumer electronics and services to self-navigating cars and personalized medicine.

The advances in deep learning are fueled by computing architectures tailored to the distributed nature of learning and inference in neural networks, akin to the distributed nature of neural information processing and synaptic plasticity in the biological brain. Neuromorphic brain-inspired electronics for ML/AI aim at porting the brain’s efficacy, efficiency, and resilience to noise and variability to electronic equivalents in standard CMOS and emerging technologies, offering new design challenges and opportunities to advance computing architecture beyond Moore’s law scaling limits.

• SECURITY SESSIONSSecurity sessions at DAC address an urgent need to create, analyze, evaluate, and improve the hardware, embedded systems and software base of the contemporary security solutions. Secure and trustworthy software and hardware components, platforms and supply chains are vital to all domains including financial, healthcare, transportation, and energy. Security of systems is becoming equally important. A revolution is underway in many industries that are “connecting the unconnected”.

Cyber physical systems, e.g., automobiles, smart grid, medical devices, etc., are taking advantage of integration of physical systems with the information systems. Not withstanding the numerous benefits, these systems are appealing targets of attacks. Attacks on the cyber-part of such systems can have disastrous consequences in the physical world. The scope and variety of attacks on these systems present design challenges that span embedded hardware, software, networking, and system design.

From Chips to Systems – Learn today, Create tomorrow

DAC.com | June 24-28, 2018 | San Francisco, CA | Moscone Center Westin technicalcooperation with:

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