Aims & Scope

Embedded Hardware Design
Affiliated with Euromicro

Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO) is a journal covering all design and architectural aspects related to embedded systems hardware. This includes different embedded system hardware platforms ranging from custom hardware via reconfigurable systems and application specific processors to general purpose embedded processors. Special emphasis is put on novel complex embedded architectures, such as systems on chip (SoC), systems on a programmable/reconfigurable chip (SoPC) and multi-processor systems on a chip (MPSoC), as well as, their memory and communication methods and structures, such as network-on-chip (NoC).

Design automation of such systems including methodologies, techniques, flows and tools for their design, as well as, novel designs of hardware components fall within the scope of this journal. Novel cyber-physical applications that use embedded systems are also central in this journal. While software is not in the main focus of this journal, methods of hardware/software co-design, as well as, application restructuring and mapping to embedded hardware platforms, that consider interplay between software and hardware components with emphasis on hardware, are also in the journal scope.

Special Issue on 28th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD)
Submission Date: 2026-02-10

Digital System Design is integral to the functioning and advancement of today's technology, especially in the emerging era of widespread artificial intelligence. Digital systems underpin a wide range of devices from embedded to edge to cloud (a.k.a edge to cloud continuum). They can be found in smartphones, wearables, tablets, personal computers, smart home devices, vehicles, all kinds of robots and advanced machines in factories, and finally in the data centres that are the backbone of today's digital economy. This dynamic development would not be possible without research, in particular on the optimisation and implementation of computationally intensive tasks (such as deep neural networks, today especially large language models, LLMs), on the design of heterogeneous and adaptive computing architectures composed of many different resources, and on ensuring reliability, security and privacy for all users. The aim of this special issue is to present selected recent research results from the broad DSD community.

We welcome submissions related to the wide area of Digital System Design, especially covering (but not limited) to the following topics:

    Artificial intelligence from edge to cloud: architectures, methods, tools and applications
    Design and synthesis of systems, hardware and embedded software – specification, modelling, analysis, validation and testing
    Design automation at system, processor, register-transfer, logic and physical levels
    Formal methods in system and hardware design
    IoT, cyber-physical, embedded systems and applications
    Systems-on-a-chip, networks-on-a-chip and systems-in-a-package
    High-performance, energy-efficient multi-core and many-core (heterogeneous) processor architectures
    Autonomous/adaptable/reconfigurable systems and architectures
    Security, safety, reliability and multi-objective optimization of embedded and cyber-physical systems
    Future trends, new applications and new technologies

Guest editors:

Daniel Casini
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

Francisco J. Cazorla
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

Manuscript submission information:

This call is restricted to selected papers from the 28th edition of the Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design (DSD 2025). Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please note that the extended paper must include at least 30% new research-based technical content and be less than 50% verbatim similarity as reported by a tool (such as CrossRef). Furthermore, significant modification of the graphics used is expected. Authors are encouraged to provide a detailed explanation of the new content in the cover letter.

Keywords:

Digital System Design; Embedded Systems; Hardware; Safety; Security; Design Automation