Below is the proposed list of topics for the workshop.  Topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:

Sensors, Actuators, Gateway & Controllers Architectures

• Architectures for wearable and IOT devices

• Heterogeneity in Cores, Frequency, Cache, Memory

• Power, Performance, Energy optimizations

• SoCs, CPU/GPU, CPU/GPGPU architectures

• Ultra-Low Power Core Micro-architectures

• Fabrics / Network-on-chip, Cache/Memory Hierarchies

• HW Support for Heterogeneity, Programmability, Modularity

• Simulation / Emulation Methodologies

• Protocols and abstraction layers (MQTT, CoAP, REST, …)

Cloud Architecture

• Data Center Architectures for IoT; customization and specialization

• Edge/Fog computing Dynamic Cloud-gateway-device offloads

• Workload/Algorithm  Partitioning between Heterogeneous Cores and Accelerators

• BigData Frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, Flink, …)

• Heterogeneous Datacenters (FPGA, GPU, Accelerators, …)

• Machine Learning Algorithms & Applications, Graph processing, Deep Neural Networks

• Batch, streaming and distributed Analytics

• Design Patterns and Application Programming frameworks

Emerging Workloads and Use cases

• Wearable and IOT use cases and workloads

• Speech/Image recognition and understanding, Cognitive computing

• Personal Assistants, Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics, Robotics

• Workload Analysis for power/performance/energy optimization and acceleration

• Performance Monitoring and Simulation, Architecture analysis

Novel Accelerator Designs

• Specialized Accelerator Architectures and Designs

• Machine Learning, Neural Network and Graph Processing accelerators

• Domain-Specific Programmable/Configurable Accelerators

• Accelerator Interfaces for Programmability

• Development Environments for Accelerator Design