Program at a Glance
Tutorials: Monday, 14 September 2026 (free for all AICAS participants) | ||||
9:00:00 AM-9:15:00 AM | Opening Session | |||
9:15 AM-6:00 PM | Tutorial #1: AI-Enabled IC Design Automation and Intelligent Hardware Architectures | Tutorial #2: High-Speed Interconnect and Clock Circuits for AI Computing Infrastructures | ||
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | Hardware-Assisted Verification for Next-Generation AI Hardware Accelerators | Introduction to High-Speed SerDes Communications | ||
10:15 AM | Tea Break (15 minutes) | |||
10:30 AM-11:30 AM | AI-Driven Shift-Left for Circuit and System Design | High-Speed Ultra-Low Latency Mixed-Signal SerDes Transceiver Design Techniques for AI Computing Infrastructures | ||
11:45 AM | Lunch | |||
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM | AI for Analog IC Design Automation: Evolution and Open Challenges | Clock Generation Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Transceivers | ||
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Bio-inspired Neuromorphic Olfaction: From Algorithms to Chips | Clock and Data Synchronization Techniques for High-Performance Interconnection | ||
3:15 PM | Tea Break (15 minutes) | |||
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Product-Ready Neuromorphic MCU at the Sensor Edge | Design of Power-Efficient Reference-less PAM4 CDR for Ultra-High-Speed Wireline Communication | ||
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Reconfigurable Accelerator Design for Multi-Precision Floating-Point Computing: From Processing Elements to SME-Oriented Architectures | Optical Receiver Front-Ends for AI Interconnect: Scenarios, Tradeoffs, and Design Guidelines | ||
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | AI-Driven EDA: Reshaping Chip Design in the AI Era | | ||
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 | ||||
Day 1: Wednesday, 16 September 2026 | ||||
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Conference Opening & GC/TPC Reporting | |||
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote #1: From Design Automation to Autonomous Design: AI Super Agents for Chip Development | |||
10:30 AM | Tea Break (15 minutes) | |||
11:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Keynote #2: Learning from Biology - Neuromorphic Techniques for an Intelligent Vision System: Using Obstacle Avoidance as an Example | |||
12:00 PM | Lunch | |||
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Session #1: AI Circuits and Systems for Robotics and Automation (4 papers) | Session #2: AI for Circuits and Systems I (5 papers) | Session #3: Emerging applications: IoT, healthcare, smart factories, environment, robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, AR/VR, metaverse I (4 papers) | Session #4: Circuits and systems for AI I (5 papers) |
2:45 PM | Tea Break (30 minutes) | |||
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Session #5: Computer vision algorithms and architectures I (4 papers) | Session #6 Special Session: AI-Powered Electronic Design Automation for IC Design I (4 papers) | Session #7: AI for Future Wireless Communications (2 papers) | Session #8 Special Session: Emerging Energy-Efficient Hardware and Computing Paradigms for Edge Intelligence I (4 papers) |
4:15 PM | Tea Break (15 minutes) | |||
4:30PM - 6:00 PM | Session #9: Architecture for AI computing I (5 papers) | Session #10: Hardware/Software Co-Design and Design Automation for AI systems I (5 papers) | Session #11: Emerging computing devices and materials for AI (6 papers) | Session #12: In-Memory Computing I (5 papers) |
7:00 PM | Welcome reception | |||
Day 2: Thursday, 17 September 2026 | ||||
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Keynote #3: From FLOPS to Intelligence per Joule: The Case for Adaptive Dataflow | |||
10:00 AM | Tea Break (30 minutes) | |||
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Keynote #4: From Intelligence to Infrastructure: Building the Global Ecosystem for the Next AI Era | |||
11:45 AM | Lunch | |||
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Session #13: Architecture for AI computing II (5 papers) | Session #14: AI for Circuits and Systems II (5 papers) | Session #15 Circuits and systems for AI II (5 papers) | Session #16 Special Session: Specialized Hardware and Systems for Edge Large Language Model Acceleration and Application, Precision-Scalable and Reliability-Aware AI Circuits for Closed-Loop Edge Autonomy, Multimedia Systems and Applications for AI (4 papers) |
2:30 PM | Tea Break (30 minutes) | |||
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Session #17: Computer vision algorithms and architectures II (3 papers) | Session #18 Special Session: AI-Powered Electronic Design Automation for IC Design II (4 papers) | Session #19 Special Session: Emerging Energy-Efficient Hardware and Computing Paradigms for Edge Intelligence II (4 papers) | Grand Challenge SS'25 |
4:00 PM | Tea Break (15 minutes) | |||
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM | Session #20: Emerging applications: IoT, healthcare, smart factories, environment, robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, AR/VR, metaverse II (4 papers) | Session #21: Hardware/Software Co-Design and Design Automation for AI systems II (5 papers) | Session #22 Special Session: Compute-in-Memory Co-Design: From Emerging Devices to AI Application Optimization (5 papers) | Grand Challenge SS'26 |
7:00 PM | Banquet & Award Ceremony | |||
Day 3: Friday, 18 September 2026 | ||||
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Session #23: Neuromorphic and bioinspired circuits, processors, systems, and their applications I (5 papers) | Session #24: In-Memory Computing II (6 papers) | ||
10:30 AM | Tea Break (15 minutes) | |||
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM | Session #25: Neuromorphic and bioinspired circuits, processors, systems, and their applications II (6 papers) | Session #26 Special Session: Compute-in-Memory Co-Design: From Emerging Devices to AI Application Optimization II (4 papers) | ||
12:15 PM | Lunch | |||
1:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Workshop #1: The 2nd IEEE Chiplet Workshop on Circuits and Systems for Next-Generation AI Computing | Industry talk: HiFloat Data Format Principles, Practices and Standards | ||
Workshop #2: Smart Sensor Circuit and Intelligent Systems for Emerging Applications | ||||
5:15 PM | Closing | |||