DATE'25

Date: Mar 31, 2025 7:00 am – Apr 02, 2025 6:00 pm
Location: Lyon, France
URL: https://www.date-conference.com/call-for-papers

Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference | The European Event for Electronic System Design & Test

31 March - 2 April 2025 | Lyon, France

https://www.date-conference.com/

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 sustainable computing, smart societies and digital wellness, secure systems, autonomous systems and smart industry, and state of the art applications of artificial intelligence. Engineers, scientists and researchers involved in innovative industrial designs are particularly encouraged to submit papers to foster feedback from design to research.

Special Days on Emerging Topics

The scientific research track is complemented by a set of sessions focussing on emerging topics bringing new challenges to the community, with presentations and interactions on interesting and timely issues.

This Special Day will focus in exploring the latest trends and innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). AI (and mainly generative AI) is booming since the release of chat-GPT and it will change the future of Design, Automation and Test. This Special Day will highlight the following topics:

  • Design of hardware architectures, including automatic exploration of large design spaces, assistance of the human designer, resource selection and optimisation
  • Verification of hardware architectures, with topics such as performance prediction, (formal) design validation, accelerating simulations thanks to AI-Augmented Surrogate Models
  • AI-Accelerated Physical Design and Validation of layout and floorplans
  • Sustainability in AI/ML Development.

During the talks, AI/ML techniques such as Neural architecture search (NAS), Generative adversarial networks (GAN), Reinforcement learning, hybridisation of classical and AI techniques, federation of Small Language Models (or agents) will be discussed.

These topics will be presented by a lineup of distinguished speakers who are expert in their respective fields. The day will conclude with a panel discussion allowing exchanges with the audience and trigger discussions on the interaction between the various domains presented during the day.

This event is ideal for AI/ML researchers, data scientists, hardware designers, software developers, sustainability advocates, and anyone interested in the future directions of AI and ML for Design, Automation and Test.

 

Marc Duranton, CEA, FRSpecial Day "New Trends in AI/ML" Co-Chair
Marc Duranton, CEA, FR
marc.duranton@cea.fr

 

Ana-Lucia Varbanescu, University of Twente, NLSpecial Day "New Trends in AI/ML" Co-Chair
Ana-Lucia Varbanescu, University of Twente, NL
a.l.varbanescu@utwente.nl

Special Day "Emerging Computing Paradigms"

-formerly "Unconventional Computing"-
Sustaining increasingly challenging compute workloads requires going beyond technology scaling with von Neumann architectures in traditional CMOS. Examples include NP-hard optimisation, massive sensor processing in IoT, as well as deep learning and artificial intelligence where training compute requirements grow by ~750x every two years. Therefore, rethinking computing toward more sustainable and efficient solutions is urgently needed. This can take place by bringing computation closer to its physical substrate, or by seeking new computing paradigms across all layers of the compute stack, thereby spanning architecture, circuit, and device solutions.

The Special Day on Emerging Computing Paradigms covers key emerging topics in the areas of quantum computing, neuromorphic engineering, physics-based computing, probabilistic computing, reversible and adiabatic computing, and cellular automata. Starting with talks by key experts and closing with a panel discussion, this Special Day aims to outline tradeoffs and synergies in the wide landscape of unconventional computing approaches.

 

Charlotte Frenkel, TU Delft, NLSpecial Day "Emerging Computing Paradigms" Co-Chair
Charlotte Frenkel, TU Delft, NL
c.frenkel@tudelft.nl

 

John Paul Strachan, FZ Juelich, DESpecial Day "Emerging Computing Paradigms" Co-Chair
John Paul Strachan, FZ Juelich, DE
j.strachan@fz-juelich.de

Special Initiative “Autonomous Systems Design”

Fueled by the progress of Artificial Intelligence, autonomous systems are increasingly becoming integral parts of many Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) applications, such as automated driving, robotics, avionics, industrial automation and smart systems in general. Autonomous systems are self-governed and self-adaptive systems that are designed to operate in an open and evolving environment, which is not completely defined at design time. This poses a unique challenge to the design and verification of dependable autonomous systems. The DATE Special Initiative on Autonomous Systems Design will include peer-reviewed papers, special sessions and interactive sessions addressing these challenges.

  • Abstract Submission: Saturday, 09 November 2024 AoE
  • Full Paper Submission: Saturday, 16 November 2024 AoE
  • Acceptance Notification: Tuesday, 17 December 2024 AoE

Submission site: https://softconf.com/date25/special_ASD/

More details and a specific call for contributions can be found online: www.date-conference.com/asd.

 

Selma Saidi, Technische Universität Braunschweig, DESpecial Initiative "Autonomous Systems Design" Co-Chair
Selma Saidi, Technische Universität Braunschweig, DE
saidi@ida.ing.tu-bs.de

 

Rolf Ernst, Technische Universität Braunschweig, DESpecial Initiative "Autonomous Systems Design" Co-Chair
Rolf Ernst, Technische Universität Braunschweig, DE
ernst@ida.ing.tu-bs.de

Unplugged Sessions on Unconventional Computing

Come join us for stimulating brainstorm discussions in small groups about the future of digital engineering. Our focus this year will be on Unconventional Computing. Unconventional computing is computing by any of a wide range of new or unusual methods. Examples are analogue mechanical, analogue electrical, biological, membrane, optical, fluidics, micromechanical, etc. computing. In this session we will on the one hand look into different examples of unconventional computing and will subsequently explore the commonalities and foundations of these approaches. Abstraction and analogy seem to always be at the heart of unconventional computing approaches. Furthermore, the value (performance, cost, energy consumption) of these approaches seems to lie in their restriction to a particular class of problems. (Electrical) analogue computing for example excels at solving differential equations. We will try to chart the boundaries of operation where value is created.

We consider quantum computing to be outside the scope of the unplugged session.

If you want to get involved in the discussions, please contact the chairs accordingly.

 

Pieter Mosterman, Raven Industries, USUnplugged Sessions Chair
Pieter Mosterman, Raven Industries, US
unplugged-sessions@date-conference.com

 

Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, BEUnplugged Sessions Co-Chair
Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, BE
unplugged-sessions@date-conference.com

Topic Areas for Submission

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

 

Track D: Design Methods and Tools, addresses design automation, design tools and hardware architectures for electronic and embedded systems. The emphasis is on methods, algorithms, and tools related to the use of computers in designing complete systems. The track focus 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:

Track A: Application Design, is devoted to the presentation and discussion of design experiences with a high degree of industrial relevance, real-world implementations, and applications of specific design and test methodologies. Contributions should illustrate innovative or record-breaking design and test methodologies, which will provide viable solutions in tomorrow’s silicon, embedded systems, and large-scale systems.

This track is organised in the following topics:

Track T: Test and Dependability, covers all test, design-for-test, reliability, and design-for-robustness issues, at system-, chip-, circuit-, and device-level for both analogue and digital electronics. Topics of interest also include diagnosis, failure mode analysis, debug and post-silicon validation challenges, and test or fault injection methods addressing system security.

This track is organised in the following topics:

Track E: Embedded Systems Design, is devoted to the modelling, analysis, design, verification and deployment of embedded software or embedded/cyber-physical systems. Areas of interest include methods, tools, methodologies and development environments for real-time systems, cyber-physical systems, networked systems, and dependable systems. Emphasis is, also, on model-based design and verification, embedded software platforms, software compilation and integration for these systems.

This track is organised in the following topics:

Submission Instructions

Submission site: https://softconf.com/date25/conference/

 

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