Topic Areas
Within the scope of the conference, the main areas of interest are organized in the following tracks. Submissions can be made to any of the track topics.

Track D: Design, Methods and Tools, addressing design automation, design tools and hardware architectures for electronic and embedded systems. Emphasis is on methods, algorithms and tools related to the use of computers in designing complete systems. This includes significant improvements on existing design methods and tools as well as forward-looking approaches to model and design future system architectures, design flows and environments.
This track is organised in the following topics:
D1 System Specification and Modeling
D2 System Design, High-Level Synthesis and Optimization
D3 System Simulation and Validation
D4 Formal Methods and System Verification
DT5 Design and Test for Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems and Circuits
D6 Emerging Technologies and Systems
D7 Power Modeling, Optimization and Low-Power Design
D8 Network on Chip
D9 Architectural and Microarchitectural Design
D10 Temperature and Variability Aware Design and Optimization
D11 Reconfigurable Computing
D12 Logical and Physical Analysis and Design
Track A: Application Design, is devoted to the presentation and discussion of design experiences with a high degree of industrial relevance, as well as innovative design and test methodologies, and applications of specific design and test technologies. Contributions should illustrate state-of-the-art or record-breaking designs, which will provide viable solutions in tomorrow's silicon and embedded systems. In topic A7, there is the opportunity to submit short, 2-page papers that relate to industrial research and practice.
This track is organised in the following topics:
A1 Green Computing Systems
A2 Communication, Consumer and Multimedia Systems
A3 Automotive Systems and Smart Energy Systems 
A4 Ambient Intelligence and Low-Power Systems for Healthcare, Wellness and Assistive Technology
A5 Secure Systems
A6 Reliable and Reconfigurable Systems
A7 Industrial Experiences Brief Papers
Track T: Test and Robustness, covering all test, design-for-test, reliability and design-for-robustness issues, at system-, chip-, circuit-, and device-level for both analog and digital electronics. Including also diagnosis, failure mode analysis, debug and post-silicon validation challenges.
This track is organised in the following topics:
T1 Defects, Faults, Variability and Reliability Analysis and Modeling
T2 Test Generation, Simulation and Diagnosis
T3 Design-for-Test, Test Compression and Access
T4 On-Line Test, Fault Tolerance and Robust Systems
DT5 Design and Test for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems
Track E: Embedded Systems Software, is devoted to modelling, analysis, design and deployment of embedded software. Areas of interest include methods, tools, methodologies and development environments. Emphasis will also be on modelbased design and verification, embedded software platforms, software compilation and integration, real-time systems, cyber-physical systems, networked and dependable systems.
This track is organised in the following topics:
E1 Real-time, Networked, and Dependable Systems
E2 Compilers and Software Synthesis for Embedded Systems
E3 Model-based Design and Verification for Embedded Systems
E4 Embedded Software Architectures
E5 Cyber-Physical Systems