ICCD 2012 - 2012 IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2012)

The International Conference on Computer Design 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 system and computer architecture, verification and test, design and technology, and tools and methodologies.

The 2012 edition of the ICCD conference marks its

30th Anniversary

where special sessions, keynotes, and other events will commemorate this milestone. ICCD is proud to be one of the venues with the longest tradition in the area.
We cordially invite submissions to ICCD 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Manuscripts describing original work on any topic from the scope of ICCD are welcome. Authors are asked to submit technical papers in accordance to the author's instructions in one of the following five conference tracks:

Computer Systems and Applications
Processor Architecture
Logic and Circuit Design
Electronic Design Automation
Test, Verification and Security
Computer Systems and Applications

Advanced computer architecture for general and application-specific enhancement
Software design for embedded, mobile, general-purpose, cloud, and high-performance platforms
IP and platform-based designs
HW/SW co-design
Modeling and performance analysis
Support for security, languages and operating systems
Real-time systems
Application-specific and embedded software optimization
Compiler support for multithreaded and multi-core designs
Memory system and network system optimization
On-chip and system-area networks
Support for communication and synchronization (e.g., transactional memory)
Processor Architecture

Microarchitecture design techniques for uni- and multi-core processors: instruction-level parallelism, pipelining, caching, branch prediction, multithreading
Techniques for low-power, secure, and reliable processors
Embedded, network, graphic, system-on-chip, application-specific and digital signal processor design
Hardware support for processor virtualization
Real-life design challenges: case studies, tradeoffs and postmortems
Logic and Circuit Design

Circuits and design techniques for digital, memory, analog and mixed-signal systems
Circuits and design techniques for high performance and low power
Circuits and design techniques for robustness under process variability and radiation
Design techniques for emerging process technologies (MEMs, spintronics nano, quantum)
Asynchronous circuits
Signal processing, graphic processor and arithmetic circuits
Electronic Design Automation

High-level, logic and physical synthesis
Physical planning, design and early estimation for large circuits
Automatic analysis and optimization of timing, power and noise
Tools for multiple-clock domains, asynchronous and mixed timing methodologies
CAD support for FPGAs, ASSPs, structured ASICs, platform-based design and NOC
DfM and OPC methodologies
System-level design and synthesis
Tools and design methods for emerging technologies (MEMs, spintronics, nano, quantum)
Test, Verification and Security

Design error debug and diagnosis
Fault modeling
Fault simulation and ATPG
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
Side channel analysis
Logic and microarchitectural countermeasures
Interaction between VLSI test and trust
Papers describing novel methods and concepts or innovative features of new products, and focusing on the overall integration of these areas into the computer design process are of particular interest to ICCD. Papers may be accepted as either regular papers or as short/poster papers. All papers will be presented during parallel technical sessions, and will be included in a published proceedings. At least one author of the paper must register for and attend the conference.