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DESIGN, AUTOMATION
AND TEST IN EUROPE
THE EUROPEAN EVENT FOR ELECTRONIC
SYSTEM DESIGN & TEST

31 MARCH – 2 APRIL 2025

LYON, FRANCE
CENTRE DE CONGRÈS DE LYON
 DATE 2025

The DATE conference is the main European -

event bringing together designers and design rence). By this, we continue to focus on the core
automation users, researchers and vendors as value of conferences: meeting, discussing and
exchanging.
design, test and manufacturing of electronic
circuits and systems. DATE puts a strong emp-
hasis on both technology and systems, covering THE CONFERENCE
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The conference addresses all aspects of re-

The three-day event consists of a conference search into technologies for electronic and
with regular papers, late breaking results pa- (embedded) systems engineering. It covers
pers and extended abstracts, complemented the design process, test and tools for design
by timely keynotes, special days, focus sessions, automation of electronic products ranging
CONFERENCE embedded tutorials, half-day workshops and from integrated circuits to distributed large-
ORGANISATION scale systems. This includes both hardware and
— also host the Young People Programme and un- -
plugged sessions fostering the networking and ference scope also includes the elaboration of
K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden the exchange of information on relevant issues, design requirements and new architectures for
Bautzner Str. 117–119 - -
01099 Dresden, DE nities. -
Phone: +49 351 65573 137 ness, secure systems, autonomous systems and
Email: [email protected] DATE 2025 is the 28th edition of an event that
has always been the place for researchers,
and researchers involved in innovative industrial
meet, present their research and discuss the
CHAIRS current development and next trends, with high papers to foster feedback from design to re-
— emphasis on social interaction. search.

General Chair At DATE 2025, the DATE community, again, co-

Aida Todri-Sanial mes together for the conference in an intensive
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL three-day format, focussing on interaction as
Email: [email protected] -
ty. The vast majority of regular papers will be
Programme Chair
Theocharis Theocharides
University of Cyprus, CY
Email: [email protected] to the common full-length presentation videos
SPECIAL DAYS ON EMERGING TOPICS UNPLUGGED SESSIONS
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DATE Unplugged Sessions on The Twinning Paradigm - Come join us for stimulating brainstorm discussions in
challenges to the community, with presentations and interactions on interesting and timely issues. small groups about the future of digital engineering. Our focus will be on the digital twinning paradigm where

Special Day “New Trends in AI/ML” sensor processing in IoT, as well as deep learning and instance of each individual car realised from a single design model). You will actively engage with peers in a
This Special Day will focus in exploring the latest trends - stimulating exchange to investigate how we can take advantage of this paradigm in engineering systems and
- rements grow by ~750x every two years. Therefore,
chine Learning (ML). AI (and mainly generative AI) rethinking computing toward more sustainable and needed and become possible.
is booming since the release of chat-GPT and it Pieter Mosterman (Raven Industries, US)
will change the future of Design, Automation and Test. place by bringing computation closer to its physical Hans Vangheluwe (University of Antwerp, BE)
This Special Day will highlight the following topics: substrate, or by seeking new computing paradigms [email protected]
- Design of hardware architectures, including automa- across all layers of the compute stack, thereby span-
tic exploration of large design spaces, assistance of ning architecture, circuit, and device solutions.
the human designer, resource selection and optimi-
sation The Special Day on Unconventional Computing co-
TOPIC AREAS FOR SUBMISSION
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- vers key emerging topics in the areas of quantum
- computing, neuromorphic engineering, physics-ba-
lidation, accelerating simulations thanks to AI-Aug- sed computing, probabilistic computing, reversible Within the scope of the conference, the main areas DT6 Design and test of secure systems
mented Surrogate Models and adiabatic computing, and cellular automata. of interest are organised in the following tracks. D7 Network on chip and on-chip communication
- AI-Accelerated Physical Design and Validation of lay- Submissions can be made to any of the track topics. D8 Architectural and microarchitectural design
panel discussion, this Special Day aims to outline tra- For detailed descriptions of the topics, please refer D9
- Sustainability in AI/ML Development. - to the DATE website: www.date-conference.com aware design
During the talks, AI/ML techniques such as Neural archi- ventional computing approaches. D10 Approximate computing
tecture search (NAS), Generative adversarial networks Track D: Design Methods and Tools addresses D11
(GAN), Reinforcement learning, hybridisation of clas- Jean-Paul Strachan (FZ Juelich, DE) design automation, design tools and hardware ar- D12 Logical analysis and design
sical and AI techniques, federation of Small Language — chitectures for electronic and embedded systems. D13 Physical analysis and design
Models (or agents) will be discussed. Special Initiative “Autonomous Systems Design” The emphasis is on methods, algorithms, and tools D14 Emerging design technologies
These topics will be presented by a lineup of distinguis- - related to the use of computers in designing com- for future computing
nomous systems are increasingly becoming integral D15 Emerging design technologies
The day will conclude with a panel discussion allowing improvements on existing design methods and for future memories
exchanges with the audience and trigger discussions Physical Systems (CPS) applications, such as automa- tools as well as forward-looking approaches to mo- D16 Design Automation for Quantum Computing
on the interaction between the various domains pre- ted driving, robotics, avionics, industrial automation del and design future system architectures, design —
sented during the day.
This event is ideal for AI/ML researchers, data scientists, are self-governed and self-adaptive systems that are Lukas Sekanina (Brno University of Technology, CZ) Track A: Application Design is devoted to the
designed to operate in an open and evolving environ- presentation and discussion of design experiences
advocates, and anyone interested in the future directi- This track is organised in the following topics: with a high degree of industrial relevance, real-
ons of AI and ML for Design, Automation and Test. - D1 System-level design methodologies and world implementations, and applications of speci-
Ana-Lucia Verbanescu (University of Twente, NL) cation of dependable autonomous systems. The DATE high-level synthesis
Marc Duranton (CEA, FR) Special Initiative on Autonomous Systems Design will D2 System simulation and validation should illustrate innovative or record-breaking
— include peer-reviewed papers, special sessions and D3 design and test methodologies, which will provide
Special Day “Unconventional Computing“ interactive sessions addressing these challenges. DT4 Design and test for analogue and mixed- viable solutions in tomorrow’s silicon, embedded
Sustaining increasingly challenging compute work- signal circuits and systems, and MEMS systems, and large-scale systems.
loads requires going beyond technology scaling with be found online: www.date-conference.com/asd DT5 Design and test of hardware security primitives
von Neumann architectures in traditional CMOS.
Examples include NP-hard optimisation, massive Rolf Ernst (Technische Universität Braunschweig, DE)

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This track is organised in the following topics: This track is organised in the following topics: COMMITTEES All submitted papers should be formatted as close
A1 E1 —
for Sustainable Computing and tool chains sheets, double column, single spaced, Times or equi-
A2 E2 Real-time, dependable and privacy-enhanced A full list of the executive and programme committee valent font of minimum 10pt, avoid the use of type-3
A3 Secure Systems, Circuits and Architectures systems members is available on the DATE website: fonts. Do not use baseline stretch to compress text.
A4 E3 Machine learning solutions for embedded and www.date-conference.com Paper templates are available on the DATE website
A5 Applications of Emerging Technologies cyber-physical systems for your convenience. DATE follows a double-blind
A6 E4 Design methodologies for machine learning
architectures SPONSORS include authors‘ names. In addition, prior work by
— E5 - — the same authors should be referenced in full and
tion for embedded and cyber-physical systems it should be discussed in such a way that it does not
Track T: Test and Dependability covers all test, de- The event is sponsored by the European Design and disclose that the work is from the same authors. Any
sign-for-test, reliability, and design-for-robustness Automation Association, the Electronic System De- submission that is not in line with the above rules will
issues, at system-, chip-, circuit-, and device-level LATE BREAKING RESULTS sign Alliance, the IEEE Council on Electronic Design be discarded. Accepted papers not complying with
for both analogue and digital electronics. Topics of — Automation and the ACM Special Interest Group on the above-mentioned formatting instructions will
interest also include diagnosis, failure mode ana- Design Automation. not be included in the conference proceedings.
lysis, debug and post-silicon validation challenges, Following the successful edition in 2024, DATE 2025
and test or fault injection methods addressing sys- - In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Test All papers will be evaluated with regard to their sui-
tem security. sent new and exciting contributions for submission Technology Technical Community (TTTC), IEEE tability for the conference, originality, and technical
Matteo Sonza Reorda (Politecnico di Torino, IT) as Late Breaking Results (LBR) papers. LBR papers Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) and IEEE soundness. The programme committee reserves
should cover new research relevant to the DATE to- Computer Society (IEEE CS). the right to reorient a submission to an extended
This track is organised in the following topics: pics. Two types of papers can be submitted: abstract.
T1 Modelling and mitigation of defects, faults,
variability, and reliability 1) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions simultaneously under review or accep-
T2 Test generation, test architectures, research directions — ted by another conference, symposium, or journal
design for test, and diagnosis 2) will be rejected. Submissions for which pre-prints are
T3 Dependability and system-level test has been accomplished to indicate the viability All manuscripts for any technical topic of the D, A, T, and available (e.g., on arXiv) are allowed, BUT these pre-
DT4 Design and test for analogue and mixed-signal of the work E tracks must be submitted for review electronically,
circuits and systems, and MEMS following the instructions on the conference website: of whether their manuscript is accepted or not. The
DT5 Design and test of hardware security primitives Prospective authors are invited to submit Late Break- www.date-conference.com/submission-instructions
DT6 Design and test of secure systems ing Results papers (2 pages and two-column format) to ensure that the submission is compliant with the
describing original and innovative work. Authors double-blind review process.
— should use the template provided on the DATE web- manuscripts received in hard-copy form will not be
site, with a blind submission. LBR submission titles processed. All submissions require novel and comple-
Track E: Embedded Systems Design is devoted must begin with “Late Breaking Results: …”. For crea- CAMERA-READY AND
ting a successful LBR forum, the LBR submission will PRESENTATION
be peer-reviewed (blind-review) by a wide-scope TPC Submissions must not exceed 6 pages in length, —
cyber-physical systems. Areas of interest include committee. Please note that the Late Breaking Results excluding references. An additional page is allowed
methods, tools, methodologies and development deadline is not an extension of the general paper sub- for references only. Authors of accepted papers will prepare the came-
environments for real-time systems, cyber-physical mission deadline. Accepted LBR submissions will be ra-ready version of the paper, adhering to the IEEE
systems, networked systems, and dependable sys- presented in dedicated technical sessions focussing WARNING: It is not possible to modify the list and the proceedings format and will be checked through
tems. Emphasis is, also, on model-based design and on live interactions around the submitted work to get order of authors once the paper is submitted and the PDFeXpress. A recorded video presentation of the
- feedback and exchange with the DATE community. deadline has expired. If the paper is accepted, this in- paper is also required, according to guidelines that
ware compilation and integration for these systems. Anachiara Ruospo (Politecnico di Torino, IT) will be made available.
Nele Mentens (KU Leuven, BE & Leiden University, NL) Pascal Vivet (CEA, FR)

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REGISTRATION RULE FOR ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS EMBEDDED TUTORIALS MULTI-PARTNER PROJECTS
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Please note that each paper shall be accompanied by at least one full conference registration at the paper DATE 2025 Embedded Tutorials are designed to pro- The DATE 2025 programme will include sessions
author rate (i.e., two paper author registrations are needed for two accepted papers, e.g., from the main -
author or a co-author of the paper). DATE is a physically held conference, and not a hybrid conference. pics in the DATE technical areas as well as hands-on highly-technological research projects addressing
Therefore, it is mandatory that at least one author of each accepted paper attends the session where the on design automation tools. Early career professio- the DATE 2025 topics. This includes projects fun-
paper is discussed and presents the work as requested, otherwise the paper will be deleted from the pro- ded by EU schemes (Horizon Europe, EIC, H2020,
ECSEL, PENTA, MSCA, COST, CleanSky, …), natio-
tools. Mid-career professionals can attend tutorials nally- and regionally-funded projects, projects
to extend their horizons. Embedded Tutorials will be funded by the European Space Agency and colla-
integrated into the 3-day schedule of DATE. We wel- borative research projects funded by industry. The
come proposals for tutorial presentations in the DATE -
technical areas. Proposals should be submitted befo- jects’ contributions to the DATE community and
re 11 October 2024, via the DATE submission website. increase the impact of dissemination and outreach
For more information, please contact: activities.
Elena Ioana Vatajelu
(TIMA/CNRS/Université de Grenoble-Alpes, FR) Project coordinators are invited to submit their
FOCUS SESSIONS Francisco Cazorla contribution presenting the concepts, work in pro-
— (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES) gress, or lessons learned from the project, either
[email protected] in the form of a full paper or a one-page abstract.
Focus Sessions can take the form of (1) Panels, di- which should not exceed ten (10) pages. As a rule MPP submission titles must begin with “Multi-
scussing visionary and controversial issues or (2) of thumb, no more than four speakers per session
Hot-Topic Sessions, focusing on the introduction should be planned for Hot-Topic Sessions. For the WORKSHOPS peer-reviewed and must be submitted before
and discussion of new R&D problems, addressing accepted Focus Sessions, it is the responsibility of — 29 October 2024 via the DATE website. Accepted
trends in the technical domains that are of interest the Focus Session organiser to ensure that the 17 contributions will be published in the DATE 2025
January 2025 deadline is met and all the camera- DATE invites proposals for half-day workshops on proceedings.
ready manuscripts from their respective Focus emerging research and application topics in de-
Focus Session proposals must consist of an exten- Sessions are technically sound and meet the edito- sign, application, test, and embedded systems and For more information, please contact:
rial standards of the DATE proceedings. The Focus Maksim Jenihhin (Tallinn University of Technology, EE)
describing the topic, the authors/speakers and the Session Co-Chairs may decline the publication of DATE technical programme but represent new re- Franco Fummi (Università di Verona, IT)
format, and must be submitted via the DATE web- search directions with potential impact on future [email protected]
site by 11 October 2024. The submitter of a Focus DATE technical areas are strongly encouraged. Fol-
invited speakers to the Focus Sessions will be re- lowing the format of previous editions, DATE Work- Projects can also showcase their vision, activities
or rejection of his/her proposal by 19 November quired to register for the conference. shops will be integrated into the 3-day schedule -
2024. In case of acceptance, contributors of ac- Catherine Le Lan (Synopsys, Inc., FR) of DATE and thus will be open for attendance to all
Olivier Sentieys (IRISA/Inria, FR) DATE registered attendees. For information and de- project dissemination options; for more informa-
texts or statements of panellists, as appropriate, [email protected] tailed descriptions on how to propose a workshop, tion please contact:
please refer to the DATE website. Proposals should K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden, [email protected]
ready manuscripts by 17 January 2025. Panel ses- be submitted electronically by 11 October 2024, via
sions are entitled to one (1) page per panellist in industrial perspective and are intended as a plat- the DATE website.
the proceedings; Hot-Topic Sessions are allocated form for DATE conference sponsors to present their Maria Michael (University of Cyprus, CY)
a maximum of six (6) pages paper per speaker or work. For more information, please contact: José Flich (Technical University of Valencia, ES)
one single paper for the entire session K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden, [email protected] [email protected]

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YOUNG PEOPLE CAREERS FAIR – INDUSTRY & CAREERS FAIR – ACADEMIA & SUBMISSION KEY DATES
PROGRAMME STUDENT TEAMS FAIR UNIVERSITY FAIR —
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The Young People Programme is an initiative tar- Careers Fair - Industry: is a platform where stu- The University Fair and Careers Fair – Academia D, A, T and E Papers:
15 September 2024 (abstracts)
geting Masters/PhD students and early-stage re- dents (PhD and Master) and early career resear- are forums for the academic sector to interact with
22 September 2024 (full papers)
searchers with the goal of increasing their visibility, chers connect with EDA and micro-electronics
19 November 2024
establishing contacts and encouraging discussion industries. A dedicated session allows to hear from providing two channels:
17 January 2025 (camera-ready papers)
about future perspectives and upcoming research sponsors about their companies, ongoing activi-
7 February 2025 (paper presentation videos)
initiatives. The programme includes various events. ties, and work culture. The Careers Fair - Industry University Fair: is an extension to the previous Uni-
All these activities, PhD Forum, Careers Fair – Indus- versity Booth programme and channel to foster Late Breaking Results Papers:
try and Student Teams Fair as well as Careers Fair – the transfer of mature academic work to a large 1 December 2024 (papers)
Academia and University Fair, will be held in-person, audience. Interested research academics are invi- 10 January 2025
- ted to submit a 1-page abstract description of their 31 January 2025 (camera-ready papers)
- fore the conference, jobseekers can attend a se- precommercial research results and prototypes. 7 February 2024 (paper presentation videos)
tunities.
HR representatives, as well as to apply to open po- present their work and demonstrate their prototy- Special Initiative
“Autonomous Systems Design”:
pe live during demonstration sessions.
9 November 2024 (abstracts)
That can lead to interviews arranged during DATE
16 November 2024 (full papers)
PHD FORUM Conference. Careers Fair - Academia: is a channel to prepare
17 December 2024
— for the future of academic career for younger aca-
17 January 2025 (camera-ready papers)
Student Teams Fair: -
7 February 2025 (paper presentation videos)
The PhD Forum is a poster session hosted by EDAA, pating in international competitions present their research initiatives with academic open positions to
ACM SIGDA, and IEEE CEDA for PhD students who activities, success stories and challenges to DATE a large audience for established academics. Inte- Focus Session Proposals:
have completed their PhD thesis within the last 12 attendees and to representatives from EDA and rested established academics are invited to submit 11 October 2024
months or who are close to completing their thesis - a 1-page abstract description of their new research
work. plans and the respective open position(s). Accep- Embedded Tutorials Proposals:
projects. - 11 October 2024
get exposure to and feedback on their research and sent their research openings. They are also invited
Workshop Proposals:
for the industry to get a glance of the state of the Submission deadline is 31 January 2025.
11 October 2024
For more information, please contact:
abstracts and posters will be made available on the Sara Vinco (Politecnico di Torino, IT)
Laura Rocha (Synopsys, PT) Submission deadline is 31 January 2025. 29 October 2024 (papers)
win one of two PhD Forum awards. Florian Bilstein (Racyics, DE) For more information, please contact: 7 February 2025 (paper presentation videos)
[email protected] Angeliki Kritikakou (IRISA, FR)
Proposals can be submitted via the DATE website Nima Tahernijad (Heidelberg University, DE) Young People Programme:
PhD Forum: 1 December 2024
[email protected]
Careers Fair – Industry & Student Teams Fair,
please contact:
Careers Fair – Academia & University Fair:
Christian Pilato (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
31 January 2025
Dirk Stroobandt (University of Ghent, BE)
[email protected]
Kindly note that all deadline days apply to

and no extensions will be given.

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