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ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Special Journal Issue on Advances in Physical Design Automation - Call for Papers


The extensions of other conference papers and original works are welcome.

This special issue seeks recent advances and innovations for More Moore and More-than-Moore in a physical design context. In addition to submissions from academia, submissions from industry are also welcome. Research papers with an emphasis on the following topics are of particular interest: placement, routing, and ECO; advances towards analog design automation; physical design for heterogeneous integration; physical design for advanced lithography technology; hardware security-related physical design; physical design with multicore, GPU, FPGA, and AI hardware acceleration; and physical design for emerging technologies (autonomous systems, bio-chips, quantum circuits, superconducting circuits, etc.).

Submissions should be made through the ACM TODAES submission site and formatted according to TODAES author guidelines. Select the paper type "Special Issue on Advances in Physical Design Automation."

English and Chinese versions of the call for papers are available here:

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Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 22nd, 2026
First-round review decisions: September 22nd, 2026
Revision submissions due: October 12th, 2026
Reviews of major revisions completed: November 3rd, 2026
Notification of final acceptance: November 23rd, 2026
Publication materials for final manuscript due:December 24th, 2026

For questions and further information, please contact guest editors at:

* Rickard Ewetz, University of Florida, rewetz@ufl.edu

* Tung-Chieh Chen, Synopsys, donchen@synopsys.com

* Stephan Held, University of Bonn, held@dm.uni-bonn.de

* Gracieli Posser, Cadence Design Systems, gposser@cadence.com