The conference will cover the theory and practice of application-specific systems, architectures and processors. The 2013 conference will build upon traditional strengths in areas such as computer arithmetic, cryptography, compression, signal and image processing, network processing, reconfigurable computing, application-specific instruction-set processors, and hardware accelerators. We especially encourage submissions in the following areas:



Bioinformatics and computational biology – life sciences present a host of interesting problems that can benefit from application-specific solutions


Computational finance – the financial community has significant needs for high performance computing


Big data analytics - extracting and correlating information from large scale unstructured data using application-specific systems


Architecturally diverse systems – systems that use heterogeneous computing resources including FPGAs, GPUs, and CGRAs


Architectural and system level design space exploration and customization techniques for improving the design efficiency


Architectures for emerging platforms, such as smartphones, tablets, and data centers, with emphasis on energy efficiency


The proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore library.



Guidelines for Submission:

ASAP 2013 will accept 8-page (US letter page size) full papers for oral presentation, 4-page short papers for short oral or poster presentation. All submissions should be written in the English language. An online submission link will be available on the ASAP 2013 website starting in early January. Papers should use the IEEE formatting template linked at the submission page.