The International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART) is a forum to present and discuss new research on computing systems utilizing acceleration technology. The main theme of HEART is achieving high efficiency through accelerators, tailored hardware architectures and new methods for computing systems, which are of utmost importance across a wide spectrum of systems. This includes high-performance computing and data centers, as well as the mobile and IoT space.

HEART 2026 Topics

Architectures for Efficient Acceleration

• Novel systems/platforms based on FPGA, CGRA, GPU, TPU, Neuromorphic, Quantum, and other devices
• Heterogeneous processor architectures and systems for high-performance and/or low-power
• Domain-specific architectures

Design Methods and Tools for Efficient Acceleration

• Programming paradigms, languages, and frameworks
• High-level synthesis and compilers
• Runtime methodologies for heterogeneous systems
• Design space exploration
• Performance and power modeling; evaluation and analysis
• Benchmarking of heterogeneous and high-performance systems
• New open-source tools and frameworks for efficient acceleration

Applications and Systems

• Applications benefiting from efficient acceleration (training/inference, DSP, graph, databases, networking, scientific/HPC, real-time/edge, etc.)
• Complete systems demonstrating increased energy efficiency and/or performance
• Comparisons between accelerator technologies, including trade-offs in programmability, efficiency, and scalability

Organizing committee

• Dirk Koch (Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Shinya Takamaeda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Mirjana Stojilović (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Riadh Ben Abdelhamid (Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Ray Cheung (City University of Hong Kong)
• Frank Hannig (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Submission Guidelines

Please follow https://heart2026.github.io/