International Conference on Computer Design

International Conference on Computer Design
Name	International Conference on Computer Design
Abbreviation	ICCD
Discipline	Computer architecture, Computer engineering
First	1983
Frequency	Annual
Country	International

International Conference on Computer Design The International Conference on Computer Design is an annual technical conference focusing on microprocessor design, computer architecture, hardware description languages, system-on-chip integration and related topics. Established in the early 1980s, the conference has served researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and industrial laboratories such as Intel, IBM, ARM Holdings and NVIDIA. Proceedings and keynote talks have been cited alongside work presented at International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Design Automation Conference, Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture and International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.

History

The conference began amid developments at Bell Labs, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories, Hitachi, and Siemens and was shaped by practitioners from DEC, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Motorola, and National Semiconductor. Early meetings featured contributors from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Princeton University, Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin and ETH Zurich and reflected advances made in projects such as RISC architecture, VLIW, MIPS architecture, SPARC, and x86. Over decades the ICCD paralleled events at ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society symposia, IEEE International Solid‑State Circuits Conference, and International Conference on Embedded Software as research priorities shifted toward multicore processors, hardware accelerators, reconfigurable computing, and system-on-chip design.

Scope and Topics

ICCD covers topics intersecting work from ARM Cortex, Intel Core, NVIDIA Tesla, Apple M1, and Google TPU design teams as well as academic groups at Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, Technische Universität München, Tsinghua University and Peking University. Typical subject areas include microarchitecture innovations, cache coherency protocols, pipeline optimization, floorplanning, thermal management, power gating, hardware security and reliability engineering. Related discussions reference standards and projects from IEEE 754, VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, OpenCL and POSIX and developments reported at Hot Chips, ISCA, DAC and ASPLOS.

Conference Organization and Format

The conference is organized by technical program committees drawing members from IEEE Computer Society, ACM, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGBED and research groups at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Microsoft Research, Google Research, and Facebook AI Research. Formats include peer-reviewed paper sessions, plenary keynotes by speakers from Intel Labs, IBM Research, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA Research, and Apple Research, poster sessions, workshops affiliated with Embedded Systems Week, tutorials led by faculty from University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and panel discussions featuring representatives from ARM, Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics. Proceedings have been archived in venues associated with IEEE Xplore and indexed alongside collections from Springer and ACM Digital Library.

Notable Papers and Contributions

ICCD has hosted influential contributions that intersect with landmark work like Tomasulo algorithm, Out-of-order execution, Speculative execution, Simultaneous multithreading, and chip multiprocessor research, with authors affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Berkeley RISC Project, Paul H. Levy-style groups, and research teams at HP Labs. Papers presented at ICCD have influenced commercial products such as Intel Pentium, ARM Cortex-A, IBM POWER series, Sun UltraSPARC and AMD Ryzen and informed subsequent publications at ISCA, HPCA, MICRO and Eurosys. Landmark topics introduced at ICCD include advances in scratchpad memory management, hardware transactional memory, approximate computing, near-threshold voltage design, 3D-stacked memory, and heterogeneous computing.

Awards and Recognition

The conference presents best paper awards and recognitions that have been received by authors from University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Washington, Georgia Institute of Technology, Seoul National University, KAIST and industrial teams from Qualcomm, Broadcom, Texas Instruments and Xilinx. ICCD awardees often appear on program committees for ISCA, ASPLOS, HPCA and are later honored with distinctions such as membership in National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow. Notable keynote speakers who have received honors include researchers associated with Nobel Prize-adjacent institutions, Turing Award laureates, and recipients of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal.

Attendance and Community Impact

Attendees typically include graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and engineers from IBM Watson Research Center, Google Brain, Amazon Web Services, Intel Labs, NVIDIA Research, ARM Research and startup companies spun out of UC Berkeley and Stanford University. ICCD has fostered collaborations leading to technology transfer with companies like Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, SiFive, Cerebras Systems and contributed to curriculum development at institutions including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Southern California. Community activities have included student mentoring programs, affiliated tutorials at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters venues and cooperative workshops with Design Automation Conference and Hot Chips.

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