Embedded Hardware Design
Affiliated with Euromicro

Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO) is a journal covering all design and architectural aspects related to embedded systems hardware. This includes different embedded system hardware platforms ranging from custom hardware via reconfigurable systems and application specific processors to general purpose embedded processors. Special emphasis is put on novel complex embedded architectures, such as systems on chip (SoC), systems on a programmable/reconfigurable chip (SoPC) and multi-processor systems on a chip (MPSoC), as well as, their memory and communication methods and structures, such as network-on-chip (NoC).

Design automation of such systems including methodologies, techniques, flows and tools for their design, as well as, novel designs of hardware components fall within the scope of this journal. Novel cyber-physical applications that use embedded systems are also central in this journal. While software is not in the main focus of this journal, methods of hardware/software co-design, as well as, application restructuring and mapping to embedded hardware platforms, that consider interplay between software and hardware components with emphasis on hardware, are also in the journal scope.

Special Issue on EuroMicro: 50 years of an amazing microprocessors and microsystems evolution
Submission Date: 2024-12-31

Guest editor:

Prof. Eugenio Villar
Department of Electronics Technology, Systems and Automation Engineering, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain

Special issue information:

EuroMicro, the international scientific, engineering and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences and applications of Information Technology and Microelectronics was founded in 1973, inspired by the emerging microprocessor technology.

This Special Issue of the Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO), the Elsevier/EuroMicro journal covering all design and architectural aspects related to embedded systems hardware, is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Euromicro and Euromicro Conferences and Journals.

The Issue will cover, on the one hand, the amazing progress achieved by microelectronics and, as a consequence, microprocessors and microsystems, during this time. On the other hand, the state-of-the-art in selected hot research topics currently and the main open issues in these fields.

Manuscript submission information:

All manuscripts should be submitted via the Elsevier online system of the journal, available at https://www.editorialmanager.com/MICPRO. When submitting the paper, please select “SI: EuroMicro” as the article type. 

Please read the submission instructions: Guide for Authors.

Schedule

    Submission portal open date: 1 August 2024
    Submission deadline: 31 December 2024
    Acceptance deadline: 31 March 2024

Keywords:

Microprocessor OR Microsystem OR Moore’s La

Special Issue on 27th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design
Submission Date: 2024-12-31

Guest editors:

    Prof. Dr. Frédéric Pétrot, Grenoble Alpes University, France
    Dr. Tomasz Kryjak, AGH University of Krakow, Poland

Special issue information:

Digital System Design is integral to the functioning and advancement of today's technology, especially in the emerging era of widespread artificial intelligence. Digital systems underpin a wide range of devices from embedded to edge to cloud (a.k.a edge to cloud continuum). They can be found in smartphones, wearables, tablets, personal computers, smart home devices, vehicles, all kinds of robots and advanced machines in factories, and finally in the data centres that are the backbone of today's digital economy. This dynamic development would not be possible without research, in particular on the optimisation and implementation of computationally intensive tasks (such as deep neural networks, today especially large language models, LLMs), on the design of heterogeneous and adaptive computing architectures composed of many different resources, and on ensuring reliability, security and privacy for all users. The aim of this special issue is to present selected recent research results from the broad DSD community.

We welcome submissions related to the wide area of Digital System Design, especially covering (but not limited) to the following topics:

    Artificial intelligence from edge to cloud: architectures, methods, tools and applications
    Design and synthesis of systems, hardware and embedded software – specification, modelling, analysis, validation and testing
    Design automation at system, processor, register-transfer, logic and physical levels
    Formal methods in system and hardware design
    IoT, cyber-physical, embedded systems and applications
    Systems-on-a-chip, networks-on-a-chip and systems-in-a-package
    High-performance, energy-efficient multi-core and many-core (heterogeneous) processor architectures.
    Autonomous/adaptable/reconfigurable systems and architectures
    Security, safety, reliability and multi-objective optimization of embedded and cyber-physical systems
    Future trends, new applications and new technologies

Manuscript submission information:

Note: This call is restricted to selected papers from the 27th edition of the Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design (DSD 2024). Please note that the extended paper must contain at least 30% new scientific content compared to the original paper published in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, in addition to the changes resulting from the new content, a significant rewriting of the entire paper and modification of the graphics used is expected. Authors are encouraged to provide a detailed explanation of the new content in the cover letter.

    Review process. The general guidelines of the MICPRO journal will be followed. As this is a closed call and all the papers will be extended version of contributions to DSD, we will in the first place assign reviewers from the TPC of the DSD conference.

    Draft of the call for paper at the end of the document - supplement A

    List of potential contributors - title and abstracts at the end of the document - supplement B. This are the top ranked papers from the DSD 2024 conference.

    Ways of attracting/finding potential contributors. - due to the close call not applicable. We will ask the top 20 authors, and if necessary (e.g. someone will be not interested) we will ask more authors according to the ranking.

    Tentative schedule of call, submissions, reviewing, and publication, including:

    Submission Deadline: 31 December 2024
    First Round Decisions: 31 March 2025
    Revised Papers Submission: 15 May 2025
    Decisions for the Revisions: 30 June 2025
    Camera Ready Deadline: 30 July 2025