A pioneer and leading multidisciplinary conference, ISQED accepts and promotes papers related to the manufacturing, design and EDA. Authors are invited to submit papers in the various disciplines of high level design, circuit design (digital, analog, mixed-signal, RF), test & verification, design automation tools; processes; flows, device modeling, semiconductor technology, advance packaging, and biomedical & bioelectronic devices. All past Conference proceedings & Papers have been published in IEEE Xplore digital library and indexed by Scopus.

The details of various topics of paper submission are as follows:

Hardware and System Security (HSS)

    Attacks and countermeasures including but not limited to side-channel attacks, reverse engineering, tampering, and Trojans
    Hardware-based security primitives including PUFs, TRNGs and ciphers
    Security, privacy, trust protocols, and trusted information flow
    Ensuring trust using untrusted tools, IP, models and manufacturing
    Secure hardware architectures Secure memory systems
    Post-quantum security primitives
    Security challenges and opportunities of emerging nanoscale devices
    IoT and cyber-physical system security
    Any other topics related to hardware security

Electronic Design Automation Tools and Methodologies (EDA)

    EDA and physical design tools, processes, methodologies, and flows
    Design tools for analysis/ tolerance of variation, aging, and soft-errors
    Design and maintenance of hard and soft IP blocks
    Challenges and solutions of integrating, testing, qualifying and manufacturing IP blocks from multiple vendors
    EDA for non-traditional problems such as smart power grid and solar energy
    EDA tools and methodologies for 3D integrations, and advanced packaging
    Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (TCAD)
    CAD for bio-inspired and neuromorphic systems
    EDA tools, methodologies and applications for Photonics devices, circuit and system design
    EDA for MEMS Any other topics related design automation tools and methodologies

Design Test and Verification (DTV)

    Hardware and software formal-, assertion-, and simulation-based design verification techniques
    All areas of DFT, ATE and BIST for digital designs, analog/mixed-signal IC's, SoC's, and memories
    Test synthesis and synthesis for testability
    Fault diagnosis, IDDQ test, novel test methods, effectiveness of test methods, fault models and ATPG, and DPPM prediction
    SoC/IP testing strategies Design methodologies dealing with the link between testability and manufacturing
    Hardware/software co-verification
    Advanced methodologies, testbenches, and flows (e.g., UVM, HDLs, HVLs)
    Formal and semi-formal verification and validation techniques
    Safety and security in verification and validation New methods and tools supporting functional safety and security
    Self-checking testbenches in analog verification
    Any other topics related to design test and verification

Emerging Device and Process Technologies and Applications (EDPT)

    Design, simulation and modeling of emerging technologies
    Design, simulation and modeling of emerging non-volatile memory and logic, such as STT-RAM, PC-RAM, R-RAM, and Memristors
    Application of emerging devices for storage and computation including but not limited to cognitive, neuromorphic, or quantum computing
    Qubit technologies and quantum computing Specialty technologies such as MEMs, NEMs
    Novel or emerging solid state nanoelectronic devices and concepts
    Design and Technology Co-Optimization
    Optimization-based methodologies that address the interaction between design (custom, semi-custom, ASIC, FPGA, RF, memory, etc.)
    Advanced-node manufacturing techniques such as multiple patterning, EUV lithography, DSA lithography,
    Advanced interconnect (e.g., air gap for local interconnect, Si photonics, etc.).
    Modeling, analysis, and optimization of technology implications on performance metrics like power consumption, timing, area, and cost.
    Design methods and tools to improve yield and manufacturability.
    Any other topics related to emerging device technologies and applications

Circuit Design, 3D Integration and Advanced Packaging (ICAP)

    Low power, high-performance, and robust design of logic, memory, analog, interconnect, RF, programmable logic, and FPGA circuits
    Techniques for leakage control, power optimization, and power management
    Analog circuit design including but not limited to all-digital PLLs and DLLs, ADC's and DAC's
    Adaptive and resilient digital circuits and systems
    On-chip process, voltage, temperature, and aging sensors and monitoring
    Hardware design for IoT sensors and actuators including digital logic, memory design, wireless communications, energy harvesting, signal processing, and power management
    Innovative packaging technologies including 3D IC, 2.5D or interposer, and multi-chip module and their impact on system design
    Design techniques, methodologies and flows for vertically integrated circuits/chips
    Modeling and mitigation of device interactions for 3D ICs
    Design of die-to-die interfaces in 3D/2.5D ICs
    Design-for-testability and system-level design issues in 3D/2.5D
    Die-package co-design
    Any other topics related to circuit design, 3D integration and advanced packaging

System-level Design and Methodologies (SDM)

    Methods and tools aiming at quality of systems including multi-core processors, graphics processors embedded systems, SoC, novel accelerator designs, and heterogeneous architecture designs
    System-level trade-off analysis and multi-objective (e.g. yield, power, delay, area, etc.) optimization
    System level power and thermal management
    Exploration of influence of emerging technologies on the system level design
    System level modeling and simulation to characterize effects of process, voltage, temperature, and aging on power, performance, and reliability
    Cyber-Physical Systems – Design, Methodologies & Tools
    HW/SW co-design, co-simulation, co-optimization, and co-exploration
    HW/SW prototyping and emulation on FPGAs
    Micro-architectural transformation
    System communication architecture
    Application driven heterogeneous computing platforms
    Network-on-chip design methodologies
    Any other topics related to system level design and methodologies

Cognitive Computing Hardware (CCH)

    Neuromorphic computing and non-Von Neumann architectures
    Hardware and architecture for neural networks and system-level design for (deep) neural computing Neural network acceleration techniques including GPGPU, FPGA and dedicated ASICs
    Safe and secure machine learning Hardware accelerators for Artificial Intelligence Cognitive-inspired computing fundamentals
    Cognitive-inspired computing systems
    Cognitive-inspired computing with big data
    Cognitive-inspired intelligent interaction AI-assisted cognitive computing approaches
    Brain analysis for cognitive-inspired computing Internet of cognitive Things
    Cognitive environment, sensing and data
    Cognitive robots and agents Security issue in cognitive-inspired computing
    Test-bed, prototype implementation and applications
    Any other topics related to cognitive computing hardware