The 19th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems conference will be held at the Southern Methodist University at Dallas from April 10 to 12, 2026. This conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, the IEEE Electron Devices Society, UT Dallas and SMU will feature a comprehensive program of technical papers, poster sessions, keynote speakers and workshops. The IEEE DCAS 2026 conference contributions will focus on the following eight tracks.
- VLSI Design and Hardware Security
- IoT, Sensors, Embedded Systems and Embedded AI
- Emerging Device and Circuit Technologies
- Edge Devices, Machine Learning and Edge Computing
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- Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits
- RF Circuits and Systems
- Power Systems, Power Electronics and Power Management ICs
- Biomedical Circuits and Systems
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In addition to these tracks, the conference will also encourage submissions in areas including but not limited to the following.
- VLSI design and methodologies
- Analog and RF mixed signal design and ICs
- Synthesis, DFT and Verification Methodologies
- Design for Manufacturability and Yield
- Hardware-Software Co-Design
- Device-Circuit Co-Design
- Power Systems and Power Electronics
- Computer Aided Design
- Low-Power Design
- Temperature-Aware Design
- Devices and Modeling
- Communications
- Nanoscale Computing and Nano-Electronics
- High Performance Computing
- Quantum Computing and Spintronics
- Multi-core and Parallel Architectures
- Networks-on-chip
- Embedded Systems
- Sensors and Sensor Arrays
- Signals and Systems
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- Reconfigurable Systems
- Education in Circuits and Systems
- Internet of Things
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Architectures
- Hardware Security
- Emerging Technologies
- Big Data Processing
- Compressive Sensing
- Cognitive Computing and Deep Learning
- Smart Systems for Automotive
- Personalized Healthcare Systems
- Sustainable Computing and Systems
- Innovative Neurotechnologies
- Energy-Aware Systems and Services
- Power Management, Energy Harvesting, and Wireless Power
- 5G and Multi-Gigabit Optoelectronics Comm
- Audio and Video Processing
- Packaging
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🏆 AWARDS 🏆
🏆 IEEE DECAS 2026 Best Paper Awards
Paper Title: Early Detection of Hardware Trojans Using Neural Controlled Differential Equations and Analysis of Power Traces
Authors: Hasala Senevirathne, Rahul Vishwakarma and Amin Rezaei
Paper Title: A 6.5-24 GHZ CMOS LNA for FR3 Bands Using Wideband Matching Technique with Sub-3 dB NF in 45nm PD-SOI
Authors: Md. Zahidul Islam, Jeff Dix and H. Alan Mantooth
Paper Title: Memory-Aware ROI-Based Power-Efficient 360-degree Video Processing
Authors: Md Humaun Kabir, Ricardo Mulino, Jack Weinheimer, Md Sajjad Hossain, Kyle Mooney, Na Gong, Ali Haidous, James Stine and Hritom Das
🏆 IEEE AQ-QCAS 2026 Best Paper Awards
Paper Title: Latency Characterization of Quantum-Classical Workflows on an Embedded System-on-Chip
Authors: Piyush Anil Sonawane, Naveed Mahmud and Andrew Kelly
Paper Title: Quantum-Enhanced Vision Transformer for Flood Detection using Remote Sensing Imagery
Authors: Soumyajit Maity and Behzad Ghanbarian
Paper Title: NV-Center Optical Readout of Superconducting Bolometer Pixels for Ultra-Low Threshold
Authors: Jacob Bogenschuetz, Brad Brown, Varghese Chirayath, Jonathan Asaadi and Ben Jones
Paper Title: Progress on the Multidimensional Distribution of Spatially-Entangled Photons over Multicore
Authors: Michael Vasilyev, Amin Azaridoodaran and Mohammad Awwad
🏆 IEEE DCAS 2026 Poster Competition
🥇 1st Place
Poster Title: Real-Time Hyperdimensional Computing for Lightweight Language Model Classifiers
Authors: Alaaddin Goktug Ayar, Sercan Aygun, M. Hassan Najafi and Martin Margala
🥈 2nd Place
Poster Title: Hardware-Accelerated NGAC Authorization for Real-Time Multi-Robot Systems
Authors: Hassan Karim, Sai Sitharaman and Deepti Gupta
🥉 3rd Place
Poster Title: Design and Control Architecture of a Detachable Hybrid Drone- Rover Platform
Authors: V. Vignesh Babu, Preetha Roselyn, Prabha Sundaravadivel, Varun Valluvan, Nithyashree Pillai and Kudzaishe S. Chitsenga
These papers were selected based on technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance by the Technical Program Committee.
We congratulate the winners and thank all authors for their valuable contributions to DCAS 2026!
This conference is sponsored by Dallas section CAS chapter.
