The ACCAD workshop provides a forum to present and discuss the current trends in computer-aided design in support of domain-specific accelerator chips, especially for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. The workshop will be concerned with the VLSI methodology flow from high-level synthesis to physical verification and performance prediction, particularly in the way it gets impacted with the emerging design paradigms of domain-specific instruction sets, approximate computing, in-memory computing, and stochastic computing. Of particular interest to the workshop are the transformations that VLSI CAD has to undergo to adapt to the post-CMOS technologies when they are considered in the context of accelerator design. The workshop will include, but will not be limited to, the following topics:

• High-level synthesis of machine-learning accelerators.

• Design space exploration of domain-specific accelerators.

• Tools and methodologies for in-memory computing.

• Tools and methodologies for approximate computing.

• CAD for emerging accelerator technologies: ReRAM, MRAM, Photonics, etc.

• Tools and methodologies for the post-CNN era.

• Tools and methodologies for the testing and verification of accelerator chips.

Each year, the workshop will be devoted to four focus areas of accelerator CAD. Renowned speakers are invited to speak on each of the four areas. This edition of the workshop is by invitation only, but future editions will be will be open to the larger community on the basis of a call-for-posters. Short oral presentations will be given by all the accepted poster presenters in advance of the poster session. The four focus areas selected for this year are:

1. CAD for emerging accelerator technologies.

2. High-level synthesis of machine-learning accelerators.

3. Accelerator verification.

4. Hardware/software co-acceleration.

Invited speakers include:

1. Dr. Leon Stok, IBM (confirmed)

2. Mr. Frank Schirrmeister, Cadence (Confirmed)

3. Prof. Deming Chen, Illinois – Urbana Champaign (confirmed)

4. Prof. David Pan, UT Austin (confirmed)

5. Prof. Kevin Cao, Arizona State (confirmed)

6. Prof. Yiran Chen, Duke (confirmed)

7. Dr. Claudionor Coelho, Palo Alto Networks (confirmed)

8. Prof. Song Han, MIT (confirmed)

9. Prof. Priyanka Raina, Stanford University (confirmed)

10. Dr. Jinjun Xiong, IBM Research (Confirmed)

11. Prof. Fadi Kurdahi, UCI

12. Dr. Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Research, Switzerland

13. Dr. Danny Bankman, Apple

14. Prof. Sophia Shao, UC Berkeley

15. Dr. Stelios Diamantidis, Synopsys, USA

16. Dr. Kailash Gopalakrishnan, IBM Research, USA

The workshop will be a virtual event co-located with ICCAD 2020, Nov 2 - 5, 2020.

Contact: Abe Elfadel, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Email: ibrahim.elfadel AT ku.ac.ae