SMACD 2016 topics of interest include, but are not limited, to:

• Performance modeling
• Power and thermal modeling
• Reliability modeling
• Variability modeling
• Compact device and circuit modeling
• Multi-domain modeling (optoelectronics, MEMs, biological, biochemical, etc.)
• Modeling languages and applications
• Linear and non-linear model reduction
• Circuit and system theory and applications
• Behavioral modeling and simulation
• Numerical and symbolic simulation methods
• Distributed and parallel circuit simulation
• Analysis and simulation techniques for emerging nanoscale devices
• Analysis of reliability effects: aging, electro-migration, BTI, etc.
• Simulation and estimation methods of variability and yield
• Post-CMOS technologies
• Fault modeling and simulation
• System-level specification and simulation
• Novel system-level design flows
• Innovative design methodologies enabled by behavioral, performance, and/or symbolic modeling techniques
• Synthesis methods in multi-domain (MEMs, electro-optical, etc.) systems
• Physical synthesis
• High-frequency modeling, simulation and design
• Low-power design techniques
• Parasitic-aware synthesis
• Variability-aware and reliability-aware design methodologies
• Test and design-for-test methods
• Language-based synthesis techniques
• Optimization methods applied to circuit and system design: high-level synthesis, structural synthesis, sizing, etc.
• Emerging electronics