Circuits and Systems: RF, analog and mixed-signal; Biomedical; Wireline and wireless communication; Digital signal processing (DSP); Memory systems; Reconfigurable and programmable

Low Power Design: "Green" circuits and systems; Low power design methodologies; Power/energy/ thermal aware architecture design; Multi-domain power/energy management

MPSoC Architecture: On-chip interconnect; Network on Chip (NoC) and multicore architectures; Memory architecture for multicore computing; 3D-IC; Heterogeneous computing; Parallel programming and software models

Design Methodologies: HW-SW codesign, reconfiguration and debug; System level design methodology and tools; Design validation and verification; Design for Testability, test synthesis, embedded test for MPSoC

Application Specific Design: SoC for driver assistant systems; Embedded computing and Internet of Things; High-performance mobile SoCs; Security; Real-time, high reliability and safety SoCs; Imaging, vision, and cloud

Emerging and Evolutionary Design: Many-core architectures; General purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing; FPGA accelerated computing; Server on a Chip; Cortical processor and neuromorphic computing; Futuristic development and optimization tools.