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