Call for Papers

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline: Feb 11, 2025 (Monday)
  • Acceptance notification: Feb 24, 2025 (Monday)
  • Final paper submission: Mar 1, 2025 (Saturday)

It has become clear that timing analysis is NO longer a solved problem. So, what are new challenges as the industry embraces 5/3/2nm and below, rides the wave of ultra-low-power mobile, wearable devices and jumps on the IoT bandwagon? Are there new issues with older nodes, 14/28nm and up, in new design use cases? How do we model timing/power interactions? How do reliability requirements coming from ADAS/IoT and related impact timing? How to we apply AI/ML/Data Science techniques to the timing domain? How do we meet the insatiable demands for accuracy, performance and functionality? What new fundamental challenges are coming from process physics, 3D, variability, voltage sensitivity, analog effects, Quantum circuit modeling, Ising Models, Mixed signal modeling and validation?

The TAU series of workshops provide an informal forum for practitioners and researchers working on these and other temporal aspects of analog and digital systems to disseminate early work and engage in a free discussion of ideas. On the thirty-first anniversary of the Tau series, the Tau 2025 workshop invites submissions and proposals from the traditional as well as emerging areas related to the timing properties of digital electronic systems, including but not limited to the topics listed below.

Timing (including incremental timing)

  • System-level timing
  • Circuit/gate-level timing
  • Transistor-level timing
  • Timing of mixed signal circuits
  • New types of latches, dual-edge devices, etc.

Variability

  • Timing analysis under variation and uncertainty
  • Ultra-low voltage induced variation effects
  • Statistical timing analysis and optimization
  • Sensitivity/criticality analysis
  • Yield analysis and optimization

Characterization

  • Efficient cell (library) characterization
  • Variation effects and corner reductions
  • Latch characterization
  • Simulation and characterization of SRAM circuits

Emerging technologies

  • Full custom design analysis
  • Special circuit families
  • Timing issues for 3D ICs and TSVs
  • New modeling techniques and machine learning
  • Timing implications of emerging technologies

Modeling and simulation

  • Transistor level modeling
  • Analog circuit modeling
  • Circuit level simulation
  • Qubit logic modeling
  • Delay models and metrics
  • Reliability modeling and simulation

Power, trade-offs and optimization

  • Timing issues in low-power design
  • Power-delay tradeoffs
  • Identifying timing criticality in presence of voltage drop/supply noise/variability
  • Optimizing design in presence of non-constant supply (drop/noise/variability)

Clocking

  • Complex clock trees and networks
  • Clocking, synchronization, and skew
  • Clock domains, static/dynamic logic
  • Novel clocking schemes

Others

  • Integrated functional-temporal analysis
  • Formal theories and methods
  • Asynchronous systems
  • Smart sensor placement
  • FPGA Design and Analysis

ACM requirements

  1. By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

  2. Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Submission of papers

Submissions are to be in double column proceedings format. In order to allow for a blind review of non-invited papers, submitted pdf version of the papers must not contain the authors name or any direct reference to the authors.

All papers (including invited papers and camera-ready versions) must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair We encourage authors to provide their pre-prints to arXiv.org.

In order to allow for a blind review, the submitted pdf version of the papers should not contain the authors’ names or any direct reference to the authors. TAU is a workshop aimed at fostering a high level of professional interaction, not a conference. Copies of papers will be provided to the attendees, but the proceedings will not be published by the ACM or the IEEE. Therefore, accepted papers can still be submitted to other conferences and journals.

Should you have any difficulties with the submission process, please contact tau.timing.workshop @ gmail.com or one of the organizers.