Call for Papers

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DFT is an annual Symposium providing an open forum for presentations in the field of defect and fault tolerance in VLSI and nanotechnology systems inclusive of emerging technologies, RISC-V architectures and AI-based solutions. One of the unique features of this symposium is to combine new academic research with state-of-the-art industrial data, necessary ingredients for significant advances in this field. All aspects of design, manufacturing, test, reliability, availability, and security that are affected by defects during manufacturing and by faults during system operation are of interest. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

  1. 1. Yield Analysis and Modeling
    Defect/fault analysis and models; statistical yield modeling; diagnosis; critical area and other metrics.
  2. 2. Testing Techniques
    Built-in self-test; delay fault modeling and diagnosis; testing for analog and mixed circuits; online testing; signal and clock integrity.
  3. 3. Design For Testability in IC Design
    FPGA, SoC, NoC, ASIC, low power design and micro-processors, including RISC-V architectures
  4. 4. Error Detection, Correction, and Recovery
    Self-testing and self-checking solutions; error-control coding; fault masking and avoidance; recovery schemes, space/time redundancy; hw/sw techniques; architectural and system-level techniques.
  5. 5. Dependability Analysis and Validation
    Fault injection techniques and frameworks; dependability and characterization, cross-layer reliability analysis, dependability analysis for AI and machine learning.
  6. 6. Repair, Restructuring and Reconfiguration
    Repairable logic; reconfigurable circuit design; DFT for on-line operation; self-healing; reliable FPGA-based systems.
  7. 7. Defect and Fault Tolerance
    Reliable circuit/system synthesis; fault tolerant processes and design; design space exploration for dependable systems, transient/soft faults.
  8. 8. Radiation effects
    SEEs on nanotechnologies; modeling of radiation environments; radiation experiments; radiation hardening techniques.
  9. 9. Aging and Lifetime Reliability
    Aging characterization and modeling; design and run-time reliability, thermal, and variability management and recovery.
  10. 10. Dependable Applications and Case Studies
    Methodologies and case studies: 2.5D/3D ICs, IoT, automotive/railway/avionics/space, autonomous systems, industrial control, fail-safe systems, dependable AI.
  11. 11. Emerging Technologies
    Error management techniques for quantum computing, memristors, spintronics, microfluidics, approximate computing, etc.
  12. 12. Design for Security
    Fault attacks, fault tolerancebased countermeasures, scan-based attacks and countermeasures, hardware trojans, system obfuscation and logic locking, secure AI, security vs. reliability, interaction between VLSI test, trust, and reliability.

Paper Submission: Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions in the areas described above. Authors must first submit a one paragraph abstract, followed by the final paper for review. Submitted papers should be no longer than 6 pages and adhere to the IEEE conference template, 2-columns style (available on conference web site). Papers can be accepted as regular papers (former oral presentations) or short papers (formerly posters). Both types of paper will be included in the IEEE proceedings. The page limit for proceedings is 6 pages for regular papers and 4 pages for short papers. Authors of a 6 page submission accepted as a short paper must reduce it to 4 pages, for publication. Full paper versions of relevant work presented, or under submission, for the RISC-V Summit are welcome. Please refer to the symposium web page for updated information.

Paper Publication: Only original, unpublished work will be accepted, for oral presentation at the symposium. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will appear in the Digital Library

Author Registration: Every accepted paper MUST have at least one full paid registration by the time the camera-ready paper is submitted for inclusion in the proceedings, and one of the authors MUST attend the Symposium and present the paper.

Best Paper Award: The committee will select a best paper award and best student paper awards which will be attributed at the conference.

Journal Special Issue associated with the conference: Authors of accepted papers at DFTS 2024 will be invited to submit an extended version of the work to a special issue of an area journal dedicated to the conference 2024 edition

Call for Special Sessions

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DFT seeks proposals for Special Sessions. These should aim at providing a complementary experience with respect to the regular sessions by focusing on hot and emerging topics of interest to the DFT community, as well as on multi-disciplinary topics, that are expected to have a significant impact on DFT activities in the next future (e.g. neutron radiation testing, security and reliability of the RISC-V architecture, reliability aspects in Machine Learning, Approximate Computing, In-Memory Computing, Quantum Computing, use of COTS electronics for space applications). A special session could consist of a set of individual presentations, embedded tutorial or a panel. Participation of experts from the industry is welcome and encouraged.

Upon acceptance, special session presenters can prepare one paper per speech to be included in the formal proceedings. For this reason, papers (presenting original and unpublished contributions and that may be no longer than 6 pages, although it is possible to purchase 2 extra pages at an additional cost) for special sessions will go through a review process. Accepted papers will appear in the formal proceedings of DFT symposium. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will appear in the IEEE Explorer Digital Library

Paper Submission: Authors are invited to submit Special Session proposals by preparing a manuscript that should include:

  • Special Session title
  • An abstract outlining the scope of the session, main topics and relevance for DFT symposium
  • Name, contact information and short biography of each organizer
  • Format of the session:
    • Panels: proposal must include a list of three to five panelists and their area of expertise
    • Individual presentations: proposal must include the complete list of three/four contributed presentations (including titles, presenter names, contact information of the corresponding presenter, and an abstract of each contribution)
    • Embedded tutorial: proposal must include the list of three/four presenters and their short bio

Proposal submissions should be presented in a single PDF to be sent via e-mail to the Special Session Chair and for information to:

By means of their submission, all presenters agree to register for and participate to DFT , in case their special session proposal is accepted. Prospective authors should adhere to the following deadlines:

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