The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Application specific Systems, Architectures and Processors will go virtual in 2021. 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.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline:     March 29, 2021 
• Paper submission deadline:     April 5, 2021 
• Notification of acceptance:     May 21, 2021 
• Camera-ready papers:         June 11, 2021 
• Video presentations:         June 21, 2021

List of Topics

For the 2021 edition of ASAP, manuscripts in the following categories are especially welcome: 

• Green AI for Ubiquitous Computing 
• Diversity and Inclusion in VLSI
• Heterogeneous Integration

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

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

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts on the above topics. 

• Submissions must be done through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asap2021).
• 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.

Publication

All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings and published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a Special Issue in Springer’s Journal of Signal Processing Systems.

Committees

Organizing Committee

    General Chair 

• Deming Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 

    Program Co-Chairs 

• Mondira Pant, Intel, USA 
• Yingyan (Celine) Lin, Rice University, USA 

    Finance Chair 

• Bo Yuan, Rutgers University, USA 

    Publicity Co-Chairs 

• Siddharth Garg, New York University, USA
• Theocharis Theocharides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Web & Registration Chair

• Caiwen Ding, University of Connecticut, USA

    Proceedings Chair

• Fan Chen, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

    Special Session Chair

• Zhenman Fang, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Technical Program Committee

• Kubilay Atasu, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland 
• Jason Bakos, University of South Carolina, USA 
• Lars Bauer, KIT, Germany 
• Holger Blume, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany 
• Christophe Bobda, University of Florida, USA 
• Anupam Chattopadhyay, NTU, Singapore 
• Sudipta Chattopadhyay, SUTD, Singapore 
• Thomas Chau, Samsung AI Centre, UK 
• Xiang Chen, George Mason University, USA 
• Zhe Chen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 
• Ray Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
• Adrian Cristal, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
• Pallab Dasgupta, IIT Kharagpur, India 
• Steven Derrien, University of Rennes, France 
• Somdip Dey, University of Essex, UK 
• Ken Eguro, Microsoft, USA 
• Zhenman Fang, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
• Diana Göhringer, TU Dresden, Germany 
• Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA 
• Xinfei Guo, Mellanox Technologies, USA 
• Frank Hannig, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Cong Hao, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Yuko Hara-Azumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
• Martin Herbordt, Boston University, USA 
• H. Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin, USA 
• Ruirui (Raymond) Huang, Alibaba Cloud, USA 
• Weiwen Jiang, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Sang-Woo Jun, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Tanay Karnik, Intel, USA
• Ryan Kastner, University of California, San Diego, USA 
• Dirk Koch, The University of Manchester, UK
• Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA
• Byeong Kil Lee, University of Colorado, USA 
• Jingwen Leng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Bing Li, Capital Normal University, China 
• Yun (Eric) Liang, Peking University, China
• Siyu Liao, Amazon Research, USA 
• Xue (Shelley) Lin, NorthEastern University, USA 
• Weifeng Liu, China University of Petroleum , China
• Iakovos Mavroidis, FORTH, Greece 
• Nele Mentens, KU Leuven, Belgium 
• Simon Moore, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Roger Moussalli, Two Sigma, USA 
• Jean-Michel Muller, CNRS, Laboratoire LIP, France 
• Walid A. Najjar, University of California, Riverside, USA 
• Javier Navaridas, The University of Manchester, UK
• Chen Pan, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
• Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany 
• Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA 
• Ao Ren, Chongqing University, China
• Tanguy Risset, INSA Lyon, France 
• Tajana Rosing, University of California, San Diego, USA 
• Julio Sahuquillo, Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain 
• Kentaro Sano, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan 
• Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Benjamin Carrion Schaefer, University of Texas at Dallas, USA  
• Hayden Kwok-Hay So, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
• Linghao Song, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Jürgen Teich, FAU, Germany 
• Theocharis Theocharides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 
• Piero Vicini, INFN Sezione di Roma, Italy 
• Rujia Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Wujie Wen, Lehigh University, USA 
• Mimi Xie, UTSA, USA
• Xiaolin Xu, Northeastern University, USA
• Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia 
• Fan Yang, Fudan University, China 
• Jieming Yin, AMD Research, USA 
• Bo Yuan, Rutgers University, USA 
• Marina Zapater, EPFL, Switzerland 
• Wei Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong
• Jeff (Jun) Zhang, Harvard University, USA