The IEEE Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems provides a forum for exchanging ideas, discussing research results, and presenting practical applications in the areas of design, test, and diagnosis of microelectronic circuits and systems.

The DDECS Workshop series is organised by Central European countries: Czech Republic (1997, 2002), Poland (1998, 2003), Slovakia (2000, 2004) and Hungary (2001, 2005).

DDECS 2006 is organised by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Faculty of Electrical Enginnering of the Czech Technical University in Prague and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC).