For almost 30 years, PATMOS has been one of the first conferences with a focus on low power. Starting in 2018, PATMOS will be collocated with two other conferences in closely related topics. Together, the well-established IOLTS and PATMOS as well as the upcoming IVSW, are forming the FEDfRo, the federative event on Design for Robustness. Registering to PATMOS will also allow visiting events from the other conference tracks. Thus, PATMOS will develop into a larger, better, full-grown three days event with more attractive shared keynotes and a larger common social program, connecting a larger community. PATMOS will not change at all, except for the conference time scheme.

Topics of Interest Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics: Timing and Performance

Methodologies and tools for the analysis, design and verification of timing and performance properties of integrated circuits and systems at all levels of abstraction
Design for yield, design for manufacturability
Simulation tools
Designs and architectures for asynchronous circuits and systems
Coupling effects: analysis, modelling, simulation & experimentation

Low Power and Thermal-aware Design

Power/Thermal-aware architectures
Power and performance optimization of multi-core systems
Design techniques for thermal-aware and low power circuits and systems
Methods for power and thermal estimation and optimization
Power/thermal-aware synthesis and floorplanning
Energy-harvesting
Low Power Systems: wireless sensor networks, mobile computing, IoT

Compilers, operating systems and runtime systems

Power efficiency through parallelizing compilers or parallel programming
Methods for programming novel multi-core architectures
Real-time system compilers, operating systems and run-time systems

FPGAs and GPU-based accelerators

Novel architectures for FPGAs and GPU-based accelarators
High-Level abstractions and CAD tools
Neuro-Inspired accelerators
Customized processor instruction sets
Optimization techniques for dynamically reconfigurable systems
Case studies and challenges

High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Centers

Supercomputing: compilers, operating systems, run time systems
Hardware-software interaction for low power and high-performance
Modeling and analysis of energy costs for HPC systems and infrastructures
Power analysis for data centers, supercomputers, communication networks
Power-efficient I/O interfaces and NoC design
Case studies: test cases, or design study challenges on data stations or supercomputers

Application-specific power efficiency by algorithmic and analytic efforts

Application of Computational Intelligence to implement high-performance systems (Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Self-Organizing Maps, Neuromorphic systems)
Banking, financial modelling and financial database acceleration
Social networks, games, entertainment, ambient intelligence, ubiquitous and wearable computing
Bioinformatics, bio-inspired, medical, and genetics systems and life sciences
Physics and astronomy, weather prediction, oil and gas exploration.
Security systems, cryptography, object recognition and tracking, global navigation satellite systems
Audio/video, imaging, smart cameras, PDAs, smart image sensors, Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC), etc. Aerospace, avionics, automotive and railway, and many other application areas

Design for aging

Aging effects and their impact on circuits
Aging-aware models
Aging-aware timing and power analysis
Circuit aging prediction
Aging-aware design