SMACD 2018 topics of interest include, but are not limited, to:

Modeling

• Compact modeling
• Performance and behavioral modeling
• Power and thermal modeling
• Reliability and variability modeling
• Multi-domain modeling
• RF/microwave/mm-wave modeling
• Modeling languages and applications
• Linear and non-linear model order reduction
• Circuit and system theory and applications
• Fault modeling

Simulation, verification and test

• Behavioral simulation
• Numerical simulation methods
• Symbolic simulation methods
• Simulation and estimation methods of variability and yield
• Analysis of reliability effects (aging, electro-migration, stress, etc.)
• High-frequency simulation techniques
• Multilevel simulation techniques
• Multi-domain simulation
• Formal and functional verification
• Fault simulation and diagnosis

Synthesis

• Multilevel design methodologies
• Synthesis methods of multi-domain circuits and systems
• Physical synthesis
• High-frequency circuit and system design
• Low-power design techniques
• Parasitic-aware synthesis
• Variability-aware and reliability-aware design methodologies
• Performance monitors and self-healing techniques
• Test and design-for-test methods
• Fault tolerance
• Language-based synthesis techniques
• Optimization methods applied to circuit and system design

Applications of modeling, simulation and synthesis in

• Automotive
• Bio-electronics
• Security
• Internet-of-Things
• Communications
• Renewable systems
• Energy Management
• Engineering Education