PPP 2014 - Workshop on Performance, Power and Predictability of Many-Core Embedded Systems

The scope of the workshop is to address challenges of embedded portable software development on multi-core structures related to various performance aspects, power efficiency, correctness and reliability including aging.
Rationale: Information and communication technology-based service and product innovation is limited by the growing vertical chain of dependencies on poorly interoperable proprietary technologies. This issue was identified to have high impact on innovation and productivity of embedded systems. Real-time applications for heterogeneous, networked, embedded many-core systems suffer from the lack of trusted pathways to system realization and application deployment. Service and product development efforts are high with many uncertainties and technical as well as economical risks discouraging such ventures.
There are attempts to put in place holistically designed ecosystems from application to silicon. The ecosystems need to be realized as tightly integrated multi-vendor solutions and tool chains complementing existing standards and enable application performance predictability and portability. It is expected that these efforts will enable significant reductions of the total cost of ownership, shorter time-to-market, and decrease the number of development assets. Also, embedded systems have to reach a given performance level while using a minimum amount of resources, while general computing applications ? and development tools ? aim to maximize performance given fixed hardware resources. Using general-purpose development tools for many-core embedded systems usually results in resource over-provisioning.
Focus: The workshop will present current state of these efforts, achieved results so far and will devise future ways of potential further enhancements. It will address key challenges in the provision of integrated solutions, among which secure, reliable, and timely operation, back-annotation based forward system governance, tool-tool, tool-middleware, and middleware-hardware exchange interfaces, and energy management with minimal run-time overhead.
Besides conceptual solutions, it will give an overview of practical in-field experiments on real industry projects provided for "seamless connectivity and middleware" by realizing a common middleware layer that is designed to support new wireless communication standards while being portable across different platforms. It will also demonstrate some of the developed tools and preliminary results achieved in three European projects: CRAFTERS (www.crafters-project.org), PaPP (www.papp-project.eu) and RELY (www.rely-project.eu). We will discuss the experiences from working with the tools on industrial applications.
Call for Papers Technical Areas:
The event will focus on the following areas (but is not limited to them, presentations will also be sought from areas outside of the list below):
Real-time applications for heterogeneous, networked, embedded many-core systems
Software portability with preservation/predictability of performance
Secure, reliable, and timely operation of embedded many-core systems
Reliability of MPSoC under aging, soft errors and PVT variation
Performance and power modeling and predictability for parallel platforms
Back-annotation based forward system governance
Tool-tool, tool-middleware, and middleware-hardware exchange interfaces
Energy management with minimal run-time overhead for eSW development
Adaptation of parallel SW to different many-core platforms, including an adaptive runtime system