*C A L L F O R P A P E R S*

31st IEEE International Conference on
*Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors* (ASAP 2020)
Manchester, United Kingdom, July 6–8, 2020

https://asap2020.cs.manchester.ac.uk/

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 27, 2020

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The 31st IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems,
Architectures and Processors will take place in Manchester, UK. The history of
the ASAP conference traces back to the International Workshop on Systolic Arrays,
organized in 1986 in Oxford, UK. It later developed into the International
Conference on Application-Specific Array Processors. With its current title,
it was organized for the first time in Chicago, USA, in 1996. Since then it has
alternated between Europe and North-America. The conference covers the theory
and practice of application-specific systems, architectures, and processors.
For the 2020 edition of ASAP, manuscripts in the following categories are
especially welcomed:

*Sustainable Computing*

*Neuromorphic Computing*

*Technologies Beyond CMOS*

Further, the conference will build upon traditional strengths in areas such as

o Computer arithmetic
o Cryptography
o Compression
o Network processing
o Signal and image processing
o Reconfigurable computing (FPGAs, CGRAs, etc.)
o Application-specific instruction-set processors
o Hardware and reconfigurable accelerators
o Embedded systems and domain-specific solutions
o Approximate computing
o Heterogeneous computing, ranging from embedded to HPC systems and data centers
o Cloud computing infrastructures and acceleration
o Edge computing, wireless, mobile, and IoT systems
o Hardware and software architectures for CPS
o AI architectures, acceleration of machine learning (custom designs or based on
FPGAs, GPUs, TPUs)
o Autonomous computing systems
o Design methods, tools, and compilers
o Simulation and prototyping (e.g., validation, performance analysis)
o System quality attributes (energy efficiency, fault tolerance, security, etc.)
o Accelerators for computational genomics, finance, big data, and other
complex workloads
o Emerging technologies (e.g., quantum computing, 3D devices and interconnects,
optical computing or communication, memristors for storage and logic,
in-memory computing)


*Important Dates*
Abstract submission deadline: Mar. 27, 2020
Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2020
Notification of acceptance: May 13, 2020
Camera-ready papers: June 5, 2020


*Submission details and publication*
Perspective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asap2020).
All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee,
with a double-blind review process. Manuscripts for full papers should
not exceed 8 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10-point size font on
8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including references, figures, and
tables. Manuscript for short papers should not exceed 4 single-spaced,
double-column pages. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format.
All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors in order to be
included in the proceedings and published in IEEE Xplore.


*Organizing Committee*

General Chair
- Dirk Koch, The University of Manchester, UK

Program Co-Chairs
- Frank Hannig, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
- Javier Navaridas Palma, The University of Manchester, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs
- Suhaib Fahmy, University of Warwick, UK
- Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan