Scope

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Embedded system architecture:
  Multiprocessors, reconfigurable platforms, memory management support, communication, protocols, network-on-chip, real-time systems, embedded microcontrollers, ...
• Embedded hardware support:
  System-on-a-chip, DSPs, FPGAs, hardware specification, synthesis, modeling, simulation and analysis, power-aware systems, testable, reliable, verifiable systems, performance modeling, safety critical systems, VLIW architectures, System on Chip design, ...
• Real-time systems:
  Software, distributed real-time systems, real-time kernels, real-time OS, task scheduling, multitasking design, ...
• Embedded software:
  Compilers, assemblers and cross assemblers, programming, memory management, object-oriented aspects, virtual machines, scheduling, concurrent software for SoCs, distributed/resource aware OS, middleware support, and software utilities, ...
• Hardware/software co-design:
  Methodologies, test and debug strategies, specification and modeling, design representation, synthesis, partitioning, estimation, design space exploration beyond traditional hardware/ software boundary, and algorithms, ...
• Testing techniques:
  Design-for-test, test synthesis, built-in self-test, embedded test, for embedded and system-on-a-chip systems.
• Application-specific processors and devices:
  Network processors, real-time processors, media and signal processors, application specific hardware accelerators, reconfigurable processors, low power embedded processors, bio/fluidic processors, hand-held devices, flash memory chips, ...
• Industrial practices and benchmark suites:
  System design, processor design, software, tools, case studies, trends, emerging technologies, benchmark suites, representation, interchange format, tools, copyrights, maintenance, metrics, ...
• Embedded computing education:
  Curriculum issues, teaching tools and methods.
• Cyber-physical system design:
  Smart connection methods, data-to-information methods, cyber level approaches, cognition and collaborative diagnostics and decision making, integrated simulation and synthesis, configuration methods, communicaion models, real-time systems, ...
• Mobile cyber-physical systems:
  Mobile robotics and electronics transported by humans or animals, cyber-physical systems and smartphones, mobile sensor technologies, ...
• Cyber-physical system security infrastructure:
  Cyber security, resilience and privacy issues, intrusion detection, prevention of malicious attacks, ...
• Emerging new topics:
  New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems and Cyber-physical systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., pervasive or ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools, embedded Engineering), ...