Dear colleagues,
The 2025 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS) will be held in
Riga, Latvia on October 28-29, 2025. NorCAS is financially co-sponsored by IEEE CAS Society.
In addition to the regular tracks of analog, digital and SoC circuits and systems,
we will have the following special sessions in IEEE NorCAS 2025:
Efficient ways to develop Rust firmware
Organizers:
Wolfgang Ecker, Infineon Technologies/TUM, Germany
Henri Lunnikivi, TAU, Finland
Per Lindgren, LTU, Sweden
Rust is gaining significance in the industry due to its memory safety, performance, and concurrency capabilities, making it a strong contender for traditional embedded development languages like C and C++. As memory safety requires a special way of writing software, Rust is sometimes framed as being inefficient to use. This session addresses aspects of using Rust efficiently in firmware programming without restricting the methods and approaches to how this can be achieved.
Chips Act initiatives in the move
Organizer:
Jari Nurmi, TAU, Finland
There are a number of initiatives in Europe both on national and EU levels to ramp up the European competences in microelectronics design and manufacturing. This session welcomes both bird’s view papers on how the initiatives are addressing competence and capacity gaps identified, and bottom-up papers showcasing results from research groups and companies taking action on recreating competences in design and implementation of microelectronic chips.
AI in Circuits and Systems
Organizers:
Hannu Tenhunen, University of Turku, Finland
Jouni Isoaho, University of Turku, Finland
Jari Nurmi, TAU, Finland
This special session addresses the use of Artificial Intelligence from two sides: How AI is used for facilitating the design of microelectronics circuits and systems, and on the other hand, how AI is incorporated in resource-constrained systems such as Internet-of-Things, wearables or Edge computing devices.
Wireless communications circuits
Organizers:
Dmitrijs Pikulins, RTU, Latvia
Peeter Ellervee, Taltech, Estonia
Jari Nurmi, TAU, Finland
The variety in wireless communication circuits and systems keeps extending. At one end there are backscattering devices and ultra low power IoT communication circuits, at the other end sophisticated 5G and 6G technologies with new waveforms and modulations used in massive-MIMO-enabled communication networks with high capacity, throughput, low latency or ultra reliability requirements. New frequency bands for terrestrial and satellite communications are explored, and at the same time lower frequencies are finding new applications when abandoned from traditional broadcast use. This special session welcomes submissions throughout the spectrum of communication circuit design, both in analog and digital domains.
All the special session papers will be reviewed similarly to the regular track papers and will be sent to IEEE Xplore for inclusion in their database. For further information on the conference, see
https://events.tuni.fi/norcas/.
Looking forward to seeing you in Riga in October!
Regards,
Jari Nurmi, Tampere University, Finland Dmitrijs Pikulins, Riga Technical University, Latvia
IEEE NorCAS General Chair IEEE NorCAS 2025 General Co-Chair
July 2nd, 2025 
Daniela Lopez de Luise 