Editorial: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronics Systems and Beyond

For more than fifty years, research in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has evolved from physical design and logic synthesis to the entire system design framework, including system-on-chip architectures, hardware/software codesign, verification, testing, power/thermal management, design for manufacturability, analog design, security, and even embedded systems/software design/design methodologies. Since the beginning, advancement in semiconductor scaling has been heavily dependent on EDA. Without EDA, semiconductor scaling would not be possible despite dramatic growth in physics, material sciences, and device technologies. Recently, EDA research has been rapidly expanding its application areas to a wide-range of vertical integrations such as biomedical applications, energy systems, data centers, electromobility, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, hardware security, mobile applications, etc. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) has been publishing recent significant results of research and development efforts in the area of design automation of electronic systems. The TODAES editorial board invites submission of technical articles describing these results. The journal intends to provide a comprehensive coverage of innovative work concerning the specification, design, analysis, simulation, testing, and evaluation of very large scale integrated electronic systems, emphasizing a computer science/engineering orientation. Meanwhile, EDA must fulfill the expectations of designers through more efficient cross-layer tighter integration from devices to software. The EDA community has the responsibility to take on these challenges because EDA has been in the forefront of developing optimal (or near-optimal) systematic, scalable solution methods compared with other domains. In the coming years, EDA will no longer be electronics design automation but smart planet design automation. This is an exciting time for ACM TODAES and beyond. ACM TODAES should reach out for these new opportunities during the next decade. ACM TODAES now gives strong emphasis on Design Automation of Things, including new/emerging device technologies and CAD applications and design automation of bio, energy, and cyber-physical systems, design methodologies and design automation technologies for security of hardware and embedded systems. However, simply publishing new domain research articles must not be the sole goal of ACM TODAES. Rather, ACM TODAES should lead the direction of EDA so that larger and more complex new domain problems are formulated and systematically solved by EDA-context design methodologies and design automation. The ACM TODAES Editorial Board knows that steadfast administration is the key to successfully building and maintaining the highest standard and reputation for the journal. ACM TODAES will strive to make the time-to-first-decision for submitted