Analog Circuits and Techniques: Circuits with analog-dominated innovation, building blocks such as amplifiers, comparators, frequency generation (oscillators and PLL) and clocking circuits, dividers, filters, references, nonlinear signal processing circuits, digitally-assisted analog circuits, sensor interface circuits.
Data Converters including Nyquist and oversampled A/D, D/A, time-to-digital, frequency-to-digital, and analog-to-information converters of all types driven by innovative techniques, architectures, technologies or applications.
Digital Circuits and SoCs for papers with IC prototypes in technologies that enhance the efficiency, performance, reliability or security of integrated systems. Areas of interest include processors, accelerators, interconnect fabrics, memory and foundational hardware design building blocks with associated tools, techniques, and methodologies in advanced nodes. Circuit, process, and architecture co-design for domain-specific applications such as AI, hardware security, cloud computing, edge computing, autonomy and communication SoCs, low-voltage design, and low-temperature computing are also of interest.
Emerging Technologies, Systems, and Applications solicit hardware-focused papers in the technologies of tomorrow extending from new devices to applications with a focus on, but not limited to: 1) Next-generation technology and sensors, sensor interfaces for MEMS, mm-wave/THz, flexible, printed, large-area and organic electronics, electronic-photonic co-design, and silicon photonics. Emerging computing paradigms including photonic and quantum computing hardware, AI/ML and in-memory computing utilizing new devices, analog, and mixed-signal circuits. 2) Biomedical circuits, systems, and applications including neural interfaces, microarrays, lab-on-a-chip, bio-inspired circuits, implantable and/or wearable systems, closed-loop systems with sensing and actuation, medical imaging, and other biosensors including biomedical signal processing SoCs, AI/ML for mixed- signal/sensing.
Foundation of System Design with research topics that show innovations in system and platform design, which extend beyond a single integrated circuit. The platforms may include large-scale systems on chip (e.g., SoCs, FPGA-based designs), 2.5D/3D chiplet based system-in-package, system-on-interposer, and multi- die integrations (including die-to-die interfaces), neuromorphic accelerators, quantum computers, and RISC / general-purpose compute systems. The submission may focus on design methodologies to enable applications such as IoT, biomedical and healthcare, machine learning, big data management, autonomous systems, robotics, secure manufacturing, datacenter platforms, domain-specific compute, and advanced connectivity platforms.
Power Management circuits and design techniques for papers on switched-mode integrated converters using inductive, capacitive, and hybrid architectures, 3D power delivery for high performance computing and chiplets, energy harvesting circuits, wireless power transfer, isolated power, power management circuits for automotive applications, linear regulators and digital LDOs, circuit techniques with novel wide-bandgap devices and drivers, battery chargers, supply modulators, and other methods to improve system overall energy efficiency and performance. Wireless Transceivers and RF/mm-Wave Circuits and Systems for low-power, energy-efficient and high performance wireless links, biomedical and sensing networks, IoT applications, cellular connectivity including M2M applications (LTE-M, NB-IoT), emerging broadband and MIMO networks (5G, WLAN), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), millimeter-wave & THz systems (radar, sensing and imaging, B5G/6G communication), frequency synthesis and LO generation, from block level (PA, LNA, VCO etc.) to full transceivers.
Wireline and Optical Communication Circuits and Systems for papers on serial/parallel data links for intra-chip/chip-to-chip/die-to-die interconnections, memory/graphics interfaces, backplanes, silicon-photonics optical communications, 2.5/3D interconnects, and chiplet-based packaging solutions; also for papers on novel I/O circuits, signaling methods, clocking techniques, PLLs, CDRs, equalizers, ADC/DAC/DSP-based transceivers, and electro-optical interface circuitry for pluggable and co-packaged optics.