IWLS 2025 Call for Papers
The 34th International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS 2025)
June 12–13, 2025, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Workshop website: www.iwls.org
The International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis is the premier forum for research in synthesis, optimization, and verification of integrated circuits and systems. Research on logic synthesis for emerging technologies and for novel computing platforms, such as nanoscale systems and biological systems, is also strongly encouraged. The workshop encourages the early dissemination of ideas and results. The workshop accepts complete papers highlighting important new problems in the early stages of development, without providing complete solutions. The emphasis is on novelty and intellectual rigor.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: hardware synthesis and optimization; software synthesis; hardware/software co-synthesis; power and timing analysis; testing, validation, and verification; synthesis for reconfigurable architectures; hardware compilation for domain-specific languages; and design experiences. Submissions on modeling, analysis, and synthesis for emerging technologies and platforms are particularly encouraged.
The workshop format includes paper presentations, invited talks, social lunch and dinner gatherings, and recreational activities.
Important Dates
Paper abstract submission deadline: March 21, 2025 (AoE)
Full paper submission deadline: March 28, 2025 (AoE)
Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2025
Final version due: May 30, 2025
Submission Instructions
Only complete papers with original and previously unpublished material are permitted. Submissions must be no longer than 8 pages (reference excluded), double column, 10-point font (we recommend using the ACM template or the IEEE template, but not necessarily). Accepted papers are distributed only to IWLS participants.
Double-blind policy: IWLS uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations; those that do will not be considered.
Submission site: EasyChair
IWLS 2025 Programming Contest
The competition this year is a continuation of the IWLS competitions held in the last three years. The decision to continue the competition is based on the observation that the quality of the results has not saturated. Indeed, the competition started in 2022, and the results produced by the participants in 2023 were on average 15% better than those in 2022. Similarly, the results in 2024 were on average 8% better than those in 2023. It will be interesting to see how much progress will be achieved this year.
For details, please check out the call for submissions for the programming contest below.
IWLS 2025 Programming Contest Call for Submissions
and the IWLS webpage: www.iwls.org
Submission deadline: June 5, 2025 (AoE)
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Valentina Ciriani, University of Milan
Program Committee Chairs
Walter Lau Neto, Synopsys
Weikang Qian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Programming Contest Chairs
Alan Mishchenko, UC Berkeley
Alessandro Tempia Calvino, Synopsys
Special Session Chair
Tiziano Villa, University of Verona
Finance Chair
Lana Josipović, ETH Zurich
Proceedings Chair
Anna Bernasconi, University of Pisa
Publicity Chairs
Petr Fišer, CTU in Prague
Jiahui Xu, ETH Zurich
Local Arrangements Chairs
Tiziano Villa, University of Verona
Davide Quaglia, University of Verona
Asma Taheri Monfared, University of Bergamo
Technical Program Committee
Luca Amarù, Synopsys
Anna Bernasconi, University of Pisa
Lei Chen, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
Zhufei Chu, Ningbo University
Valentina Ciriani, University of Milan
Fabrizio Ferrandi, Politecnico di Milano
Petr Fišer, CTU in Prague
Aman Gayasen, AMD
Winston Haaswijk, Cadence Design Systems
Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, National Taiwan University
Attila Jurecska, Siemens EDA
Victor Kravets, IBM
Chang Meng, EPFL
Giulia Meuli, Synopsys
Shin-ichi Minato, Kyoto University
Alan Mishchenko, UC Berkeley
Walter Lau Neto, Synopsys
Augusto Neutzling, Real Intent
Stefan Nikolić, University of Novi Sad
Weikang Qian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Stefano Quer, Politecnico di Torino
Andre Reis, UFRGS
Tsutomu Sasao, Meiji University
Herman Schmit, Google
Eleonora Testa, Synopsys
Gabriella Trucco, University of Milan
Tiziano Villa, University of Verona
Robert Wille, TU Munich & SCCH GmbH
Cunxi Yu, University of Maryland
Mingfei Yu, EPFL