About the Journal

Aims and Scope. Journal of Hardware-Software Co-Design provides a focused venue for research on partitioning, hardware acceleration, co-simulation, embedded co-design, interface synthesis. The journal prioritizes technically substantive, internationally relevant work in which the principal novelty lies inside the stated computing scope rather than only in the application domain.

Core topics in scope include:

• partitioning
• hardware acceleration
• co-simulation
• embedded co-design
• interface synthesis
• performance-energy tradeoffs
• hardware-software co-design
• embedded architecture
• system integration
• co-optimization

Evidence and methodological expectations. Systems papers should use transparent workloads, credible baselines, controlled experiments or validated simulation, and report performance, energy, reliability, cost, or resource trade-offs as relevant. Prototype details must be sufficient for replication or independent verification.

Normally outside scope. Unvalidated architecture diagrams, vendor-product descriptions, isolated benchmark screenshots, and system prototypes without comparative evaluation, workload characterization, or measurable architectural contribution are normally outside scope.

Research integrity and reproducibility. Authors should disclose datasets, software, model or system configurations, experimental protocols, statistical procedures, ethical approvals where applicable, competing interests, funding, and any material use of generative AI. Data and code should be shared when legally and ethically possible, or the restriction must be explained.