SSH-SoC @ ICCAD 2026

3rd edition of Safety and Security in Heterogeneous Open SoC Platforms (SSH-SoC)
co-located with ICCAD 2026
November 8-12, 2026
San Jose, California, USA

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.

Topics of interest

• Security verification for hardware designs and system architectures
• Architectural aspects of secure system integration
• Secure system integration of third-party hardware components
• Automated firmware generation supporting secure system execution
• Security aspects of reconfigurable designs
• Time-predictable system execution in open-hardware designs
• Performance, timing, and worst-case analysis supporting time-predictable execution/communications in open-hardware designs
• Fault tolerance and execution in harsh conditions leveraging open-hardware designs
• AI-driven security verification and anomaly detection in hardware and system architectures
• Machine learning methods for predictive fault analysis and threat detection in integrated systems
• AI-assisted detection of vulnerabilities in third-party or reconfigurable components
• 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), General Chair
• Brandon Regan (NYU), TPC Chair
• Luca Benini (ETH Zürich)
• Davide Rossi (University of Bologna)
• Francesco Restuccia (UCSD)