SMACD 2027: International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design. Seville, Spain, 14–17 June 2027.
International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design
New in 2027
A $1,000 award for an open-source design
The Open-Source Design Challenge is open to everyone: design a circuit with open-source tools on an open PDK, publish it, and let us reproduce it.
Take the challenge
EDA Competition
Your design tool could win $1,000
M.Sc. and Ph.D. students: bring your new method, flow or tool to Seville, demo it live and join the SMACD Hall of Fame. Papers due 19 February 2027.
Enter the EDA Competition
Hall of Fame
53 awards, 14 countries, one Hall of Fame
Every Best Paper, EDA Competition and IC Design Contest winner since 2012, with their papers in IEEE Xplore. Who joins them in Seville?
Meet the winners
SMACD 2027 themes
Why “Where Silicon meets Intelligence”?
AI in EDA, designing with words, the human in the loop and open-source EDA: get to know the themes of SMACD 2027, and why there is room for your work too.
Discover the themes
Call for papers
Papers due 19 February 2027
From CAD and EDA for analog and mixed-signal systems to AI and LLMs for EDA, emerging technologies and applications: four pages, published in IEEE Xplore.
Read the call for papers
Sponsorship
Put your company where silicon meets intelligence
Meet the researchers, designers and EDA developers shaping analog, RF and mixed-signal design, and the students you will want to hire next.
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Discover Seville
Come for SMACD, stay for Seville
A Cathedral, a royal palace and an archive on the UNESCO World Heritage list, tapas bars on every corner, flamenco, and long June evenings by the Guadalquivir.
Plan your stayAbout SMACD
International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design
14–17 June 2027 · Seville, Spain
SMACD is a forum devoted to modeling, simulation and synthesis for analog, mixed-signal and RF (AMS/RF) and multi-domain (nanoelectronics, biological, MEMS, optoelectronics, etc.) integrated circuits and systems, as well as emerging technologies and applications.
Open-source tools and methods for IC design, and experiences with modeling, simulation and synthesis techniques, including system/technology co-optimization, in diverse application areas are also welcome.
Objective technologies include CMOS, beyond CMOS, and More-than-Moore such as MEMS, power devices, sensors and passives.
Published in IEEE Xplore
Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore®, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.
Read the call for papersThe SMACD 2027 theme
Where Silicon meets Intelligence
Where Silicon Meets Intelligence captures the transformative convergence of semiconductor design and artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting a new era in which intelligent algorithms, human creativity, and electronic systems evolve together.
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AI in EDA
This vision encompasses the role of AI in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), where machine learning and intelligent automation can enhance design productivity, accelerate exploration, and support better engineering decisions.
Taking it further…
2Designing with words
It also explores the emerging paradigm of designing with words, in which Large Language Models (LLMs) enable designers to interact with tools, express design intent in natural language, and bridge the gap between human ideas and hardware implementations.
Keeping the balance…
3Human in the loop
Yet, intelligence in design is not solely about automation. AI amplifies engineering ingenuity rather than replacing it. The human remains an essential part of the loop, providing creativity, expertise, critical judgment, and responsibility to guide AI-driven processes and ensure meaningful, reliable results.
Laying the foundation…
4Open-source EDA
At the same time, open-source EDA offers a foundation for transparency, accessibility, and collaborative innovation, empowering a broader community to experiment, contribute, and shape the future of electronic design.
At SMACD, Where Silicon Meets Intelligence is an invitation to explore this evolving landscape, bringing together researchers, engineers, and innovators to rethink how hardware is designed and how intelligent technologies can expand the boundaries of what is possible. It is where silicon meets algorithms, human insight, and open innovation to shape the next generation of electronic systems.
Intelligence, though, has never been only artificial.
It lives in an accurate model, a fast simulator, a robust sizing method, a smarter test, an ingenious circuit. With or without AI, with open-source tools or commercial ones, if your work advances how circuits and systems are modeled, simulated, synthesized or designed, from analog and RF to emerging technologies, SMACD is where it belongs.
Topics
CAD and EDA methods and tools for AMS systems
Synthesis, sizing and optimization; modeling; simulation, verification and test.
Emerging technologies and applications (ETA)
CAD for emerging technologies, AI/ML and LLMs for CAD/EDA, hardware security.
Emerging devices and paradigms
Bio-inspired and neuromorphic computing, design with emerging devices.
AMS ICs and multi-domain design applications
From the Internet of Everything to automotive, biomedical, aerospace and energy.
Competitions
EDA Competition
Looking for a better designer: a new tool, method or flow that improves how circuits are designed.
Open-Source Design Challenge
Looking for a better design: a real circuit made entirely with open-source tools and an open PDK, published so that anyone can reproduce it.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline
Author notification
Camera-ready submission
Early registration deadline
Conference opens in Seville
Explore SMACD 2027
- AuthorsEverything you need to submit your work to SMACD 2027.
- ProgramCalls for proposals now, and the full program once it is set.
- CommitteesThe people organizing SMACD 2027.
- Venue & TravelWhere SMACD 2027 takes place, and how to get there.
- SponsorshipThe institutions and companies that make SMACD possible.
- HistoryPast editions of SMACD and the people recognised along the way.