2015 25th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation

PATMOS has a history of 25 years and it is one of the first conferences world-wide to focus on low power. The scope of the PATMOS conference series has mainly been about and around the design of circuits and architectures optimized for highest performance at lowest power consumption. Power-efficiency has become extremely important for many more areas spreading far beyond this traditional R&D niche. Energy-efficient ICT infrastructures are a key issue of local and global economies. Energy prices will grow substantially. The strong increase of wireless communication and the growth of cloud computing will further contribute to this trend. A future peta- or exa-flop supercomputer would need its own power plant if the gap between computation and power consumption could not be resolved: It is the intention of PATMOS 2015 to think beyond current solutions such that the very wide gap between computation and the massive energy consumption for ICT infrastructures can be closed.