DITAM 2013 - DITAM - Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multi-Core Embedded Computing Platforms

Embedded computing is one of the computing areas where multi/many-core architectures are being used to achieve high-performance and/or energy savings. Tight and demanding requirements, short time-to-market and possible product upgrades, make the development of applications and the design of embedded architectures very challenging. Techniques for hardware/software co-design, for configuring the system according to application needs, for programming the multiple cores, and for generating customized hardware accelerators are currently hot topics of research. Furthermore, customization via reconfigurable hardware, run-time resource management, and run-time adaptability are seen as promising techniques to adapt the embedded computing architecture to the application requirements.

This workshop will serve as a privileged forum to discuss recent research and development advances from academia and industry.

This workshop is mainly organized around the final results of three EU funded FP7 projects, namely 2PARMA (PARallel PAradigms and Run-time MAnagement techniques for Many-core Architectures, http://www.2parma.eu/), ERA (Embedded Reconfigurable Architecture, http://www.era-project.eu/), and REFLECT (Rendering FPGAs to Multi-Core Embedded Computing, http://www.reflect-project.eu/). We plan to have contributions from other ongoing EU funded FP7 projects.

This workshop will present the approaches and research efforts being explored, the results achieved, and the proposed research avenues of those projects.

Furthermore, We intend to have three invited talks, one per main topic, given by prestigious speakers. These invited talks will possibly give other views not necessarily tied to the specific objectives of the projects. Finally, a panel will allow a fruitful discussion between members from academia and from industry.