The IEEE 12th MCSoC 2018 aims to provide world’s premier forum of leading researchers in the Embedded Multicore/Many-core SoCs software, tools and applications design areas for academia and industries. From the  2018 edition, the MCSoC symposium targets new emerging topic related to neuro-inspired advanced cognitive technologies and applications. Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions.  Submission os a contribution implies that at least one of the authors will have a full registration to the symposium upon acceptance of his/her contribution. Submission can include, technical and experimental, theoretical, conceptual, or a survey. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity.