As Dennard’s law is coming to an end, on-chip power consumption reduction and throughput improvement due to technology scaling pose serious challenges; workloads of today’s applications (such as AI, Big Data, and IoT) have also reached extremely high levels of complex computation. Power dissipation has become the fundamental barrier to scale computing performance across all technology platforms. Computation at nanosclaes requires innovative approaches. Moreover, many emerging computing paradigms have been widely studied (e.g., approximate, stochastic, neuromorphic, in-memory), mostly at system level to alleviate the encountered hurdles; however, their successful evolution necessitates implementations that require efficient circuits in a multitude of modules (such as memory, arithmetic, and control). Substantial challenges still remain also at architectural and system levels. Although bridging of technology with circuit design has attracted significant attention from academic and industrial communities in the past decade, it still requires considerable efforts to accomplish implementations that are energy-efficient and high-performance for systems in diverse computing applications.


Authors are invited to submit Regular papers following the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) guidelines within the scope of this Special Issue. Topics in scope for “Circuits and systems for emerging computing paradigms” include (but are not limited to):

- Computing using circuit-level emerging technologies
- Architectural and system-level support for emerging computing paradigms
- Emerging paradigms using novel computational approaches
- Circuits for emerging error-tolerant and dependable designs
- Design methodologies and automation tools for emerging computing paradigms
- Hardware accelerators and architectures
- Hybrid circuits for high throughput computation.
- Applications and experimental case studies


Submission Guidelines: All submitted manuscripts must

(i) conform to TCAS-I’s formatting requirements and page count;
(ii) incorporate no less than 50% of new (unpublished) technical material;
(iii) be submitted online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcas1. Please select “Special Issue on Emerging Computing Paradigms” when submitting a manuscript to this Special Issue.


Deadlines

Paper Submission: Sep. 15, 2021
Completion of First Review: Dec. 15, 2021
Completion of Final Review: Feb. 15, 2022
Target Publication: Apr. 15, 2022


Guest Editors

Dr. Shanshan Liu
Northeastern University, USA
E-mail: ssliu@coe.neu.edu

Dr. Bi Wu
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
E-mail: wubi_sl@nuaa.edu.cn

Dr. Ke Chen
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
E-mail: chen.ke@nuaa.edu.cn

Prof. Weiqiang Liu
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
E-mail: liuweiqiang@nuaa.edu.cn

Prof. Maire O’Neill
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
E-mail: m.oneill@ecit.qub.ac.uk

Prof. Fabrizio Lombardi
Northeastern University, USA
E-mail: lombardi@ece.neu.edu