Third Workshop on Safety and Security in Heterogeneous Open System-on-Chip Platforms (SSH-SoC) 2026
Co-located with ICCAD 2026 in San Jose, California, USA
https://ssh-soc-workshop.github.io/2026/

SSH-SoC 2026 marks the third edition of a workshop dedicated to trustworthy integration of next-generation heterogeneous systems-on-chip (SoCs) built on open hardware and software platforms.

The slowdown in technology scaling 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.

Scope: Topics of interest of the SSH-SoC workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • 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:

Organizers:

  • Biruk Seyoum (Columbia University), General Chair
  • Brandon Regan (NYU), TPC Chair
  • Luca Benini (ETH Zürich)
  • Davide Rossi (University of Bologna)
  • Francesco Restuccia (UCSD)
SSH-SoC @ ICCAD 2026