The DATE conference is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in hardware and software design, test, and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. DATE places a strong emphasis on both technology and systems, covering ICs/SoCs, reconfigurable hardware, and embedded systems, as well as embedded software.

The three-day event consists of a conference with regular papers, extended abstracts, and late breaking results, complemented by timely keynotes, special days, focus sessions, embedded tutorials, half-day workshops, and multi-partner project sessions. The event will also host the Young People Programme fostering networking and exchanges of information on relevant issues, recent research outcomes, and career opportunities for junior researchers. Poster-supported live interactions and pre-recorded videos are available to complement all research paper presentations before, during, and after the conference.

DATE 2026 is the 29^th edition of an event that has always been the place for researchers, young professionals, and industrial partners to meet, present their research, and discuss current developments and upcoming trends, with high emphasis on social interaction.

Conference Scope

The conference addresses all aspects of research into technologies for electronic and (embedded) systems engineering. It covers the design process, test, and tools for design automation of electronic products, ranging from integrated circuits to distributed large-scale systems. This domain includes both hardware and embedded software design issues. The conference scope also includes the specification of design requirements and new architectures for challenging application fields such as sustainable computing, smart societies and digital wellness, secure systems, autonomous systems and smart industry, and state-of-the-art applications of artificial intelligence. Engineers, scientists, and researchers involved in innovative industrial designs are particularly encouraged to submit papers to foster feedback ranging from design to research aspects.

Conference Sponsors

The event is sponsored by the European Design and Automation Association, the Electronic System Design Alliance, the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation and the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Community (TTTC), IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) and IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS).

Conference Committees

The conference leverages the support of multiple committees to support its organization. The DATE Sponsors Committee supervises the overall structure and operations of the conference; the Executive Committees designs and implement the yearly programme of the conference, and the Technical Programme Committee is dedicated to develop reviews and select the research manuscripts to be published at the conference.

• DATE Sponsors Committee
• DATE Executive Committee
• Technical Programme Committee

Contacts

Conference Organisation | Conference Manager
Anja Zeun, K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden, DE
date@kitdresden.de

General Chair
Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan, US
valeria@umich.edu

Programme Chair
Alberto Bosio, École Centrale de Lyon, FR
papers@date-conference.com

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• Download the DATE 2026 Call for Papers (web version) here
• Download the DATE 2026 Call for Papers (printversion) here

Photos are available in the DATE 2025 Gallery.

EDAA Achievement Award 2025

Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University, US

in recognition of outstanding contributions to EDA and its community.

https://date25.date-conference.com/edaa-achievement-award-2025-goes-sub…

IEEE Fellow

Wenjian Yu, Tsinghua University, CN

for contributions to parasitic extraction, circuit simulation and related numerical methods

IEEE CEDA Service Award

Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, NL

for outstanding contributions to DATE as General Chair of DATE 2024

IEEE CS TTTC Outstanding Contribution Award

Aida Todri-Sanial, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

for outstanding contributions to DATE as General Chair of DATE 2025

EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Awards

Topic 1 New directions in systems design methods and tools, simulation and validation, embedded software design and optimization for embedded, cyber physical, secure and learning systems

Deterministic Reactive Programming for Cyberphysical Systems

Christian Menard, TU Dresden, DE

Advisor: Jerónimo Castrillón Mazo, TU Dresden, DE

Topic 2 New directions in SoC platforms co design, novel architectures for future computing in design flows, and power management

Computation In Memory based Edge AI for Healthcare A Cross Layer Approach

Sumit Diware, TU Delft, NL

Advisor: Rajendra Bishnoi, TU Delft, NL

Topic 3 New directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed signal, nano scale and emerging technologies

Design Automation Tools and Software for Quantum Computing

Lukas Burgholzer, JK U Linz, AT

Advisor: Robert Wille, TUM, DE

Topic 4 New directions in safety, reliability and security aware hardware design, validation and test

Preventing IP Theft in Heterogeneous 2.5D/3D Integrated Circuits

Jonti Talukdar, Duke University, US

Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University, US

DATE Fellow Award

Yervant Zorian, Synopsys, US

for many years of outstanding contributions for DATE and its test community

Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, NL

for outstanding service contribution for DATE as General Chair of DATE 2024

Best Paper Awards

D Track

Timing Driven Global Placement by Efficient Critical Path Extraction

Yunqi Shi 1, Siyuan Xu 2, Shixiong Kai 2, Xi Lin 1, Ke Xue 1, Mingxuan Yuan 3 and Chao Qian 1

1 Nanjing University, CN; 2 Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, CN; 3 Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, HK
(Session BPA01)

A Track

A Lightweight CNN for Real Time Pre Impact Fall Detection

Cristian Turetta 1, Muhammed Toqeer Ali 1, Florenc Demrozi 2 and Graziano Pravadelli 1

1 Università di Verona, IT; 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Stavanger, NO

(Session BPA04)

T Track

A Soft Error Tolerant Flip Flop for eFPGA Configuration Hardening in 22nm FinFET Process

Prashanth Mohan 1, Siddharth Das 1, Oguz Aatli 1, Josh Joffrion 2 and Ken Mai 1

1 Carnegie Mellon University, US; 2 Sandia National Laboratories, US

(Session BPA03)

E Track

Cocktail: Chunk Adaptive Mixed Precision Quantization for Long Context LLM Inference

Wei Tao 1, Bin Zhang 1, Xiaoyang Qu 2, Jiguang Wan 1 and Jianzong Wang 2

1 Huazhong University of Science & Technology, CN; 2 Ping An Technology ( shenzhen ) Co ., Ltd, CN

(Session BPA04)

Outstanding Reviewer Awards

D Track

Chang Meng, EPFL, Lausanne, CH

Bonan Yan, Peking University, CN

Yangdi Lyu, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, CN

Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, CA

A Track

Mirjana Stojilovic, EPFL, Lausanne, CH

Geoff Merrett, University of Southhampton, UK

T Track

Soundes Marzougui, ST Microelectronics, Diegem, BE

Sarah Azimi, Politecnico di Torino, IT

E Track

Frank Hannig, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, DE

Anup Kumar Das, Drexel University, US

University Fair Award

ARBoard, the future of PCB debug

Giorgio Insinga, Pietro Bella and Paolo Bernardi, Politecnico di Torino, IT

Young People Programme Hack@DATE Competition Award

HASS Lab Team

Hao Lyu, Zhiqing Rui, Chengjie Wang, Zhiyuan Li, Xiang Ling and Jingzheng Wu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN

In recognition of outstanding performance in hardware security threat detection

ASD Outstanding Paper Award

Modeling the SL LET paradigm in AUTOSAR Adaptive

Davide Bellassai, Evidence S.r.l., Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Gerlando Sciangula, Huawei and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Claudio Scordino, Huawei
Daniel Casini, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Alessandro Biondi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna