Third Workshop on Safety and Security in Heterogeneous Open System-on-Chip Platforms (SSH-SoC) 2026
Co-located with ICCAD 2026 in San Jose, California, USA
https://ssh-soc-workshop.github.io/2026/

SSH-SoC 2026 marks the third edition of a workshop dedicated to trustworthy integration of next-generation heterogeneous systems-on-chip (SoCs) built on open hardware and software platforms.

Technology scaling's slowdown has pushed computer architecture toward heterogeneous, domain-specific SoCs, accelerated by open hardware and software ecosystems enabling design reuse and rapid prototyping. But as SoC complexity grows, system integration — spanning in-house RTL, HLS-generated blocks, and third-party IP, has become the key bottleneck, introducing security, safety, and performance risks in mission-critical deployments. SSH-SoC provides a venue for methods, tools, and early-stage ideas on trustworthy SoC integration, with a strong emphasis this year on AI-enabled approaches: design-space exploration, verification, and security analysis.
Scope: Topics of interest of the SSH-SoC workshop include, but are not limited to:

1. Security verification for hardware designs and system architectures
2. Architectural aspects of secure system integration
3. Secure system integration of third-party hardware components
4. Automated firmware generation supporting secure system execution
5. Security aspects of reconfigurable designs
6. Time-predictable system execution in open-hardware designs
7. Performance, timing, and worst-case analysis supporting time-predictable execution/ communications in open-hardware designs
8. Fault tolerance and execution in harsh conditions leveraging open-hardware designs
9. AI-driven security verification and anomaly detection in hardware and system architectures
10. Machine learning methods for predictive fault analysis and threat detection in integrated systems
11. AI-assisted detection of vulnerabilities in third-party or reconfigurable components
12. AI-assisted timing and performance verification for secure, predictable execution in heterogeneous architectures

Workshop Format: SSH-SoC will feature a mix of invited talks (30–45 minute slots from academic and industry experts) and paper presentations selected from submissions to this call. Submissions are 4-page workshop papers (IEEE Conference format); shorter submissions are also welcome. Accepted papers will be presented in 10/15-minute slots, including Q&A. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop's Technical Program Committee.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: September 7, 2026
Author notification: October 5, 2026
Workshop date: November 12, 2026
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sshsoc26

Organizers:

Biruk Seyoum (Columbia University)
Brandon Reagan (NYU)
Luca Benini (ETH Zürich)
Davide Rossi (University of Bologna)
Francesco Restuccia (UCSD)