Call for Papers

ASYNC 2012

Call for Papers

18th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems

May 7-9, 2012

Copenhagen, Denmark


The International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) is the premier forum for researchers to present their latest findings in the area of asynchronous design.  This year ASYNC is co-located with the 6th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS 2012).  The two symposia will be hosted by DTU Informatics at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen.


Authors are invited to submit full papers on any aspect of asynchronous design, ranging from the core topics of design, synthesis, and test, to asynchronous applications in system-level integration and emerging computing technologies.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


  1. ‣Mixed-timed circuits, GALS systems, Network-on-Chip, and multi-chip interconnects

  2. ‣Elastic and latency-tolerant synchronous design

  3. ‣Synchronization, arbitration, and metastability

  4. ‣Asynchronous pipelines, architectures, CPUs, and memories

  5. ‣Asynchronous ultra-low power systems, energy harvesting, and mixed-signal/analogue

  6. ‣Asynchrony in emerging technologies, including bio, neural, nano and quantum computing

  7. ‣CAD tools for asynchronous design, synthesis, analysis, and optimization

  8. ‣Formal methods for verification and performance/power analysis

  9. ‣Test, security, and fault tolerance

  10. ‣Asynchronous variability-tolerant design and design for manufacturing

  11. ‣Circuit designs, case studies, comparisons, and applications


SPECIAL TRACKS:  This year we are also soliciting papers for two special tracks.  Papers submitted for consideration to the special tracks will receive the same standard of peer review as regular papers.  When evaluating a paper submitted to one of these tracks, the Program Committee will give extra consideration to the contribution of the paper to the life sciences, biology-inspired computing, or the process and experience of incorporating asynchronous techniques in commercial designs.  The special tracks are:


  1. ‣Asynchrony in biology-inspired computing

  2. ‣Industrial applications of asynchronous design



PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION:  Papers must not exceed EIGHT (8) pages in IEEE double-column conference format (single-spaced, 10pt or larger font size). Submissions shorter than 8 pages are acceptable (especially for the industrial track), but will be judged based on the overall merit of their contributions to theory and/or practice. Papers must be submitted anonymously according to the instructions provided on the submission website.  Papers will be evaluated by the program committee in a blind review process on the basis of scientific merit, innovation, relevance, and presentation.  New idea and new topic papers are strongly encouraged.  Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library and in the symposium proceedings.



Symposium website:

http://www.imm.dtu.dk/async_2012

or

http://asyncsymposium.org



Important Dates  


  1. ‣Abstract registration deadline                                          Dec  2, 2011

  2. ‣Full paper submission deadline                                        Dec  9, 2011

  3. ‣Notification of acceptance                                               Feb 10, 2012

  4. ‣Final version due                                                            Mar  3, 2012



Program Co-Chairs

  1. ‣Montek Singh, UNC Chapel Hill, USA (montek@cs.unc.edu)

  2. ‣Pascal Vivet, CEA-LETI, France (pascal.vivet@cea.fr)


Track Charis

  1. ‣Peter Beerel

  2. ‣Paul Merolla

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