Call for Papers — flyer

Constant advances in manufacturing yield and field reliability are important enabling factors for electronic devices pervading our lives, from medical to consumer electronics, from railways to the automotive and space scenarios. At the same time, both technology and architectures are today at a turning point; many ideas are being proposed to postpone the end of Moore’s law, such as extending CMOS technology as well as finding alternatives to it like CNTFET, QCA, memristors, etc. At the architectural level, the spin towards higher frequencies and aggressive dynamic instruction scheduling has been replaced by the trend of including many simpler cores on a single die. These paradigm shifts imply new dependability issues and require a rethinking of design, manufacturing, testing, and validation of reliable next-generation systems. These manufacturability and dependability issues will be resolved efficiently only if a cross-layer approach that takes into account technology, circuit and architectural aspects will be developed.

In the framework of the COST Action IC1103 – MEDIAN, (Manufacturable and Dependable Multicore Architectures at Nanoscale) this Workshop will provide an open forum for presentations in the above-mentioned fields. The topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones:

1. Methodologies/techniques for manufacturing reliable nanoscale devices
2. System level design, on-line testing/fault tolerance
3. Verification and Validation/Debug Methodologies
4. Fault tolerance for space applications
5. Fault tolerance for transportation systems
6. Fault tolerance for medical devices

Based on to the availability of COST Action IC1103 funding, authors of accepted contributions will be eligible for travel reimbursement. In case of limited budget availability, the selection of beneficiaries will be based on the following criteria, in priority order:
1) Young researchers (Master thesis / Ph.D. students);
2) Balance of allocation among different Working Groups;
3) First come first serve (date of submission of contribution).

Paper Submission

The submission site is now open: link.

Submission style

Perspective authors are invited to submit an abstract, maximum 4 pages, prepared according to the Springer format.
+ detailed description available on the Springer web site (link),
+ Word template: zip file,
+ Latex template: zip file

Paper Publication and Presenter Registration

Accepted abstracts will be distributed during the workshop and published on the Workshop’s website. Every accepted paper must have at least one author registered to the workshop by the time the camera-ready is submitted; the author is also expected to attend the workshop and present the contribution. Extended versions of the accepted abstracts are also eligible to undergo a second round of reviews for possible publication in a special session of an archival journal.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: March 15, 2013 March 29, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013
• Camera-ready final version: April 30, 2013

Workshop Registration and Camera Ready Upload

Registration to the workshop available here

Camera ready should be uploaded through the paper submission website

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For general information, contact the General co-Chairs. For paper submission information, contact the Program co-Chairs.