SMACD 2026 Full Conference Programme

Day 1 — Monday, June 29 (Plenary Room)
Time Title Presenter(s) Main Topic
08:30 - 10:00 European Chiplet Innovation – APECS Pilot Line P. Höhmann et al. (FMD) Packaging / Systems
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Analog IC Layout (AICL) Co-Pilot M. Bio (FH Kärnten / JKU) EDA / Automation
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Multi-Stacked More-than-Moore Emerging Devices S. Dasgupta, N. Bagga (IIT) Devices / Technology
14:30 - 16:00 Reliable Framework for Accurate Timing Sign-Off A. Bulusu (IIT Roorkee) Digital / EDA
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 Optimal Equalizer Design for High-Speed Interfaces J. Kim (SNU) Mixed-Signal Systems
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception
Day 2 — Tuesday, June 30
Time Large Room Session Room
08:30 - 09:00 Opening
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk #1:
10:00 - 10:40 Coffee break/ POSTER SESSION
3233 Félix David Suárez Bonilla, Gustavo Liñán-Cembrano and Jose M. de la Rosa. Hardware-Efficient Neural Architecture Search for Wireless Signal Classification on Edge Devices
5773 Muhammad Waleed Hasan, Uwe Hatnik and Benjamin Prautsch. Performance of Ensemble Learning Algorithms for HCI Degradation Modeling of Planar MOSFETS
4786 Matthias Thiele and Jens Lienig. Paving the Path to Spatially Multiplexed Coherent Ising Machines
6558 Mohanlal Naik, Vaishali Choudhary and Pydi Ganga Bahubalindruni. A Linear Active Resistance Based Low-Voltage Low-pass Filter Using Oxide TFT Technology
5812 Neha Gupta, Akash Shekhar, Lomash Chandra Acharya, Ajoy Mandal, Sudeb Dasgupta and Anand Bulusu. Prediction of Read Access Time for 6T SRAM for Bitcell Characterization and Sizing
459 Miguel Martín-González, F. Eugenio Potestad-Ordóñez, Antonio J. Acosta and Erica Tena-Sánchez. A Composable Hybrid Boolean Masked and Internal Fault Injection-Detecting AND Gate Gadget Proposal
10:40 Physics-Based Reliability and Failure Analysis in Advanced Semiconductor Devices and Space-Grade Systems Emerging Hardware Architectures for Quantum Readout, Synchronization, and Photonic Processing
10:40 3368 Susann Rothe, Jens Lienig and Sachin Sapatnekar. Fast Hotspot Analysis Applying Physics-based Electromigration Models 3629 Gabriel López-Pinar, Concepción Aldea, Santiago Celma and Carlos Sánchez-Azqueta. A Fully Integrated CMOS Parametric Amplifier for Cryogenic Qubit Readout
11:00 8189 Javier Diaz-Fortuny, Francisco V. Fernandez, Javier Martin-Martinez, Montserrat Nafria, Elisenda Roca and Rafael Castro-Lopez. Characterizing Fast RTN Events with Parameter-Limited Instrumentation 7566 Ashwin Raj Ravichandran, Bhuvnesh Narayanan, Christoph Posenau, Lorenz Reuschel and Michael Faulwaßer. Electro-Optic Modulator Control of Multi-Mode Photonic Processing Units for Optical Quantum Computing
11:20 9951 Nour El I Boukortt and Dirk Stroobandt. Design and Electrothermal Insights for 3D CFETs 1927 Roque Fernandez-Maldonado, Uxua Esteban-Eraso, Concepcion Aldea, Santiago Celma and Carlos Sanchez-Azqueta. A Fractional-N PLL Frequency Synthesizer for Qubit Readout and Control Architectures
11:40 6824 Seyedmohammadhossein Sajjadikaboudi, Giorgio Cora, Corrado De Sio, Sarah Azimi and Luca Sterpone. Reliability Analysis of Optical Fiber Communication for FPGA Clusters in Space 4853 Salwa Yasmeen Neyaz, Arun Ashok, Michael Schiek, Christian Grewing, Andre Zambanini, Sabitha Kusuma and Stefan van Waasen. A 28 nm PLL-Based Oscillator Network for Synchronization and Oscillator-based Optimization
12:00 - 13:20 Lunch
13:30 Hardware Security Frontiers: IC Reuse Detection, TRNG Innovation, and Side-Channel Defense Power Management and Energy Conversion
13:30 6960. Pablo Quintero-Viejo, Javier Diaz-Fortuny, Elisenda Roca, Francisco V. Fernandez and Rafael Castro-Lopez. Detecting IC Reuse via Reflow-Exposure Fingerprints in Pre-Stressed Ring Oscillators 9305 Oran Hayes, Maria Pantazi, Athanasios Tziouvaras, George Stamoulis, Anuj Pathania, Shreejith Shanker and George Floros. Workload-Aware Early-Stage Power Delivery Network Optimization via Architectural Power Traces
13:50 3225 Larissa Andrade, Raphael Viera, Jean-Baptiste Rigaud, Laurent Le Brizoual, Laurent Pichon, Murilo Muller and Gevorg Ishkhanyan. On-Chip Frequency-to-Voltage Conversion for Hardware Security Characterization 6067 Giulia Di Capua and Nicola Femia. Duty-Cycle Saturation Effects in Power Converters for Wireless Battery Charging Systems
14:10 4687 Bruno Fernández Sánchez-Hermosilla, Rafael Castro López, Elisenda Roca Moreno and Francisco V. Fernández. An Improved RTN-Based True Random Number Generation Technique Employing XOR Whitening 2177 Eashan Wadhwa, Georgios Floros and Shreejith Shanker. Context-aware Simopt-Power: Using structural data with simulation metadata to optimise FPGA designs
14:30 953 Prashee Arora and Mitra Mirhassani Pre-Silicon Side-Channel Leakage Detection and Localization in ECC-Based ECDH Hardware 618 Duarte Marques, Margarida Lourenço, Ricardo Martins and Fábio Passos. A Methodology-Driven Fully Integrated EMLC DC-DC Converter with Optimized Passives, Regulation and Reliability
14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 EDA Competition I Innovations in Time-Measurement Circuits, Analog Signal Conditioning, and High-Frequency Design
15:20 EDA Competition Presentation 9841 Anıl Karaca and Mustafa Berke Yelten. Comparative Analysis of GaAs pHEMT VCO Types
15:30 - 16:00 6520 Veeti Lahtinen, Altti Heikkinen, Verneri Hirvonen, Aleksi Tamminen and Marko Kosunen. On Re-Usability and Process-Portability of Programmatic Mixed-Mode Integrated Circuit Design
15:40 5768 Burak Kaya, Wolfgang Gläser, Thomas Thönes, Johan Berthier Tsayem and Heinrich Milosiu. Low-Power RF Circuit Design and Optimization with Fitted ACM2 MOSFET Models
16:00 1391 Muhammet Enes Yanık, Abdullah Bayram, Ihsan Cicek and Engin Afacan. MARGO:Multi-Agent RTL-to-GDSII Orchestration 6195 Jan-Philipp Gaa and Eckhard Hennig. An Interleaving Concept for Resolution Enhancement of Multi-Hit Time-to-Digital Converters for Time-of-Flight Sensor Applications
16:20 - 16:40 9003 Alex Bary, Arthur Perodou, Anton Korniienko, Pierre Courouve, Dominique Morche and Gérard Scorletti. Sizing of a weakly nonlinear Gm-C Filter based on sEKV model using Geometric Programming
16:30 - 17:00 7548 Vaisakh Naduvodi Viswambharan and Ayush Dileep. SaxoFlow: An Agentic AI Platform for Hardware Design Research and Education
19:00 - 21:00 Gala Dinner
Day 3 — Wednesday, July 1
Time Large Room Session Room
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk #2:
10:00 Coffee break/ POSTER SESSION
3233 Félix David Suárez Bonilla, Gustavo Liñán-Cembrano and Jose M. de la Rosa. Hardware-Efficient Neural Architecture Search for Wireless Signal Classification on Edge Devices
5773 Muhammad Waleed Hasan, Uwe Hatnik and Benjamin Prautsch. Performance of Ensemble Learning Algorithms for HCI Degradation Modeling of Planar MOSFETS
4786 Matthias Thiele and Jens Lienig. Paving the Path to Spatially Multiplexed Coherent Ising Machines
6558 Mohanlal Naik, Vaishali Choudhary and Pydi Ganga Bahubalindruni. A Linear Active Resistance Based Low-Voltage Low-pass Filter Using Oxide TFT Technology
5812 Neha Gupta, Akash Shekhar, Lomash Chandra Acharya, Ajoy Mandal, Sudeb Dasgupta and Anand Bulusu. Prediction of Read Access Time for 6T SRAM for Bitcell Characterization and Sizing
459 Miguel Martín-González, F. Eugenio Potestad-Ordóñez, Antonio J. Acosta and Erica Tena-Sánchez. A Composable Hybrid Boolean Masked and Internal Fault Injection-Detecting AND Gate Gadget Proposal
10:40 Layout Aware IC Design Automation and Post-Layout Performance Modeling Advanced Data Converter and Sampling Circuit Design for High-Speed, High-Resolution, and Precision Sensing Applications
10:40 9906 Carlos Almeida, Filipe Azevedo, Marco Oliveira and Ricardo Martins -. Combining Layer-Aware Images and Pre-Layout Fusion for Accurate Analog IC Post-Layout Performance Prediction 9478 Hakan Cetinkaya, Tufan Coşkun Karalar and Alper Girgin. A 3-b 1.6 GS/s Fully Differential Back-end Flash ADC in IHP SiGe 0.13 µm
11:00 3937 Hoang Nguyen, Trung Duong, Ricardo Martins and Lihong Zhang. RF Post-Layout Performance Prediction with Deep Learning and Image Processing 7916 Kerem Yurtseven, Uygar Yildiz, Kemal Ozanoglu and Günhan Dündar. A Direct-Digitization Sigma-Delta ADC for Ionization Chamber Readout with fA-Level Sensitivity
11:20 4890 Behdad Jamadi, Farzad Ordubadi, Asif Wahid and Armin Tajalli. Automation Design flow of Analog Circuits 8608 Ko-Chi Kuo and Juin Hung Ye. Adaptable 8-Bit Resolution SAR ADC for Analog CIM Applications
11:40 8520 Uwe Eichler, Torsten Reich, Uwe Hatnik and Benjamin Prautsch. Interactive Design of Optimized Capacitance Arrays using Intelligent IP Layout Generators 4829 Mohammad Bayazi, Jiayi He and Renato Negra. A bootstrapped switch with enhanced rising speed and low distortion sampling structure
12:00 - 13:20 Lunch
13:30 Circuit Verification and Model Order Reduction AI-Driven and High-Frequency Circuit Design for Next-Generation Wireless Systems
13:30 8164 Jeonghoon Min, Ashwin Bhat, Adou Sangbone Assoa, Seoyeong Jo, Jaeha Kim and Sigang Ryu. XEDGE-SIM: Fast NPU-Level Simulator Unifying RRAM-Based CIM and Firmware-Aware Digital Subsystems for Mixed-Signal Verification 1219 Islam Guven, Mehmet Parlak and Dimitri Lederer Hybrid Evolutionary–Reinforcement Learning Synthesis of Wideband D-Band Three-Port Circuits
13:50 1687 Christos Giamouzis, Dimitrios Garyfallou and Nestor Evmorfopoulos. Second-Order Balanced Truncation of RLCk Models via Frequency-Aware Rational Krylov Approximation 8703 Francisco Aznar, Uxua Esteban Eraso, Guillermo Diez-Senorans, Danilo Tardioli and Santiago Celma PVT Analysis of Quadruple CMOS RX Front-End for Linear Phased Arrays
14:10 418 Caroline Draudt, Yasmine Abu-Haeyeh and Lars Hedrich. Modeling of Nonlinear Analog Circuits Using Automated Reachset Conformance Checking 8976 Muhammed Taha Karaaslan, Alperen Tunç, Revna Acar Vural and Mustafa Berke Yelten Comparative Analysis of Resource-Constrained MPLS and Neural Network DPD in Deep Saturation
14:30 7402 Chrysostomos Chatzigeorgiou, Pavlos Stoikos, Dimitrios Chatzigeorgiou, Evangelos Nonas, Dimitrios Garyfallou, Nestor Evmorfopoulos and George Stamoulis. Optimal Reduction of Large-Scale Circuit Models by Tangential Interpolation 5699 Manimohan Thiriloganathan, Shenal Ranasinghe, Avishka Herath, Rajinthan Rameshkumar, Hansa Marasinghe, Anjana Viduranga, Gayangana Leelarathne and Kithmin Wickremasinghe. A 2.4 GHz LC-VCO Fractional-N Phase Locked Loop Open-Source Design in 130-nm BiCMOS
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 EDA Competition II Electromagnetic Modeling and Integrated Passive Systems
15:20 7389 Utku Arda Akinci, Faik Baskaya and Gunhan Dundar. Continuous-Time Bandpass Filter Design, Modeling & Analysis Tool on MATLAB 501 Giulia Di Capua, Nicola Femia, Gennaro Di Mambro and Antonio Maffucci. Data-Driven Behavioral Modeling of Mutual and Self-Inductance in Wireless Power Transfer Coils
15:40 7763 Marlene Schneider, Fikret Eren, David Brunner, Marcel Baunach, Bernd Deutschmann and Norbert Druml. Parametric Analysis and Optimization of the Start-up Process for 2D MEMS Mirrors
15:50 629 Adrian Pitterling, Manuel Jirsak, Eric Schäfer and Georg Gläser. To Clock or Not to Clock: Clock Gating Using Netlist Carpentry
16:00 2752 Sabina Pache-Viles, Gabriel Lopez-Pinar, Concepcion Aldea, Santiago Celma and Carlos Sanchez-Azqueta. On-Chip Stacked Transformer in a Low-Noise Amplifier for Cryogenic Environments
16:20 - 16:40 3162 Erol Tunahan Gedik, Macit Uluda, Ali Emir Oktem, Gunhan Dundar and Arda Deniz Yalcinkaya. Monolithic Co-Integration of an Optically Powered 64 MHz Receiver with On-Chip Charge Pump
16:20 - 16:50 5503 Matthew Bio, Santiago Sondon, Johannes Sturm and Harald Pretl. AICL Co-pilot: A Hybrid Framework for Hierarchical Analog IC Layout Automation
Day 4 — Thursday, July 2
Time Large Room Session Room
09:00 Plenary talk/ tutorial #3:
10:00 Coffee break
10:40 Generative and Reinforcement Learning Methods for Scalable Analog Integrated Circuit Design and Optimization Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Systems
10:40 4108 Filipe Azevedo, Duarte Marques, Carlos Almeida, Fábio Passos and Ricardo Martins. Generative Analog Integrated Circuit Placement via Denoising Diffusion Models 2360 Mina Nazarian Samani, Sima A. Alidokht, Heloise Therien-Aubin and Lihong Zhang. A Bio-Inspired Starfish TENG Architecture for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting: Modeling, Design, and Experimental Validation
11:00 2510 Hakan Taskiran and Engin Afacan. Generative Design of Analog Circuits Under Limited Data via cVAE Manifold Modeling 6141 Ali Namdari and Daniele D. Caviglia. A 79% Efficient Piezoelectric Harvester with Hybrid Hysteretic Control for Self-Powered Biomedical Sensor Nodes
11:20 1328 Douglas Mateus Machado, Nathan Chanez, Severin Trochut, Paul Chollet, Roberto Guizzetti, Pascal Urard and Van-Tam Nguyen. Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Industrial Analog Circuit Sizing: A Curriculum Learning Approach 9487 Abel Mwepu Tshimbu, Ting Zou and Lihong Zhang. Internal Impedance Prediction for Triboelectric Nanogenerators Using Artificial Neural Networks
11:40 5095 Han Liu, Filipe Azevedo, Carlos Almeida, Hakan Taşkiran, Engin Afacan, Li Jiao and Ricardo Martins. Using Variational Autoencoders to Address the Inverse Sizing Design Problem of Analog Ics 1820 Ali Namdari and Daniele D. Caviglia. A Sub-2-nW, 69-dB Gain Inverter-Based OTA for Energy-Harvesting Biomedical Sensor Nodes
12:00 - 13:20 Lunch
13:30 AI-Assisted Methods for Sample-Efficient RF and Analog Circuit Design Automation Memristive Devices and Energy-Aware Learning for Emerging Computing Systems
13:30 2901 Islam Guven, Mehmet Parlak and Dimitri Lederer. World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Sample-Efficient Wideband Pixelated Passive RF Circuit Synthesis 3560 Khang Phuoc Nguyen, Richard Schroedter, Vasileios Ntinas, Emilio Perez-Bosch Quesada, Eduardo Perez, Christian Wenger and Ronald Tetzlaff. A Variability-Aware Compact Memristor Model for HfO2-based 1T1R ReRAM Devices
13:50 3743 Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Dries Peumans and Gerd Vandersteen. Local Reranking for Retrieval-based Heterogeneous Analog/RF Design 5267 Neethu Kuriakose, Arun Ashok, Sabitha Kusuma, Kay Winterberg, Christian Roth, Christian Grewing, Andre Zambanini and Stefan van Waasen. Memristor Conductance Control System-on-Chip Using Current Controlled Techniques in 28 nm CMOS Technology
14:10 3619 Enes Sağlıcan, Kemal Ozanoglu, Günhan Dündar and Engin Afacan. LLMs on the Path Toward Analog IC Automation: ChatGPT as an ADC Design Expert 1631 Hiba Al Youssef, Mohamad Raad, Maurizio Valle and Ali Ibrahim. EVA-NAS: Energy Variance Aware Neural Architecture Search for Resource Constrained Embedded Systems
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Next-Generation Design Automation for Complex Systems: AI, Physics-based, and Design Frameworks Physics-Informed and Data-Driven Compact Modeling of Advanced Semiconductor Devices
15:00 9012 Shangyu Wang, Shaoping Wang, Yaohui Lu and Jose de la Rosa. PRED: Probabilistic Routing Expert Diffusion for High-Level Design of Sigma-Delta Modulators 129 Siddharth Mohan, Mike Engelhardt, Tim McCune and Jeff Strang. Datasheet‑Driven Automated Device Modeling
15:20 7464 Thinh Do, Lihong Zhang, Trang Hoang and Trung Duong. Quantum Physics-Informed Neural Network: A Surrogate Model for High-Order ∆-Σ Modulators 8374 Chia-Wei Liao, Han-Hsuan Lai, Meng-Xun Cai, Wen-Kai Kao, Cheng-Shiun Shen, Yu-Chia Pai, Hou-Xian Ding, Yu-Min Hsu, Richard Kuo, Cheng-Kuo Lin, Wen-Jay Lee, Nan-Yow Chen, Yeong-Her Wang, Yu-Chi Chang and Darsen D. Lu. Deep Learning Assisted Compact Modeling of DC and High Frequency Scattering Parameters for High-Electron Mobility Transistors
15:40 8115 Yaohui Lu, Shaoping Wang, Shangyu Wang and Jose M. de la Rosa. Physics-Informed Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Explainable High-Level Design of Sigma-Delta Modulators 3694 Takahiro Yanagi. Exact Fringe Capacitance Modeling via Schwarz-Christoffel Mapping: A Kirchhoff Benchmark for Parallel Plates
16:00 5382 Santeri Porrasmaa, Veeti Lahtinen, Verneri Hirvonen, Tomi Valkonen, Aleksi Korsman, Altti Heikkinen, Otto Simola, Aleksi Tamminen and Marko Kosunen. Chippenwolf: Fully Programmatic and Open-source Mixed-mode System-on-Chip Implementation Framework 3987 Danial Bavi and Sourabh Khandelwal. Computationally Efficient Surface-Potential Calculation in GaN HEMTs with Neural Networks
16:20 - 16:50 AWARDS AND CLOSING CEREMONY