The International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) is the premier forum for researchers to present their latest findings in the area of asynchronous design. This year ASYNC is co-located with the 6th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS 2012). The two symposia will be hosted by DTU Informatics at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen.

Authors are invited to submit full papers on any aspect of asynchronous design, ranging from the core topics of design, synthesis, and test, to asynchronous applications in system-level integration and emerging computing technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Mixed-timed circuits, GALS systems, Network-on-Chip, and multi-chip interconnects
- Elastic and latency-tolerant synchronous design
- Synchronization, arbitration, and metastability
- Asynchronous pipelines, architectures, CPUs, and memories
- Asynchronous ultra-low power systems, energy harvesting, and mixed-signal/analogue
- Asynchrony in emerging technologies, including bio, neural, nano and quantum computing
- CAD tools for asynchronous design, synthesis, analysis, and optimization
- Formal methods for verification and performance/power analysis
- Test, security, and fault tolerance
- Asynchronous variability-tolerant design and design for manufacturing
- Circuit designs, case studies, comparisons, and applications

SPECIAL TRACKS: This year we are also soliciting papers for two special tracks. Papers submitted for consideration to the special tracks will receive the same standard of peer review as regular papers. When evaluating a paper submitted to one of these tracks, the Program Committee will give extra consideration to the contribution of the paper to the life sciences, biology-inspired computing, or the process and experience of incorporating asynchronous techniques in commercial designs. The special tracks are:

- Asynchrony in biology-inspired computing
- Industrial applications of asynchronous design


PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION: Papers must not exceed EIGHT (8) pages in IEEE double-column conference format (single-spaced, 10pt or larger font size).
Papers must be submitted anonymously according to the instructions provided on the submission website. Papers will be evaluated by the program committee in a blind review process on the basis of scientific merit, innovation, relevance, and presentation. New idea and new topic papers are strongly encouraged. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library and in the symposium proceedings

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:

General Chair: Jens Sparsø, DTU, Denmark Program Co-Chairs:
Montek Singh, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Pascal Vivet, CEA-LETI, France