ESWeek 2012 - International Conference on Hardware - Software Codesign and System Synthesis

The CODES+ISSS invites papers on the specification, modeling, design, analysis, and implementation designs from embedded systems to systems of systems. The conference covers range of design problems and applications relevant to important embedded system quality metrics including performance, cost, power consumption, reliability, security, usability, and compactness. Each paper is supposed to tackle new challenges based on new novel and innovative idea and/or emerging technologies. The following area of topics are welcomed but not limited to:
Track 1) Hardware/software co-design - Specification and refinement, design representation, system synthesis, partitioning, hardware-software interaction/interface, design space exploration, reconfigurable design, and model-based design.
Track 2) Domain and application-specific design techniques - Analysis, design, and automation techniques for multimedia, medical, automotive, security, and other specialized application domains.
Track 3) Embedded software - Compilers, memory management, virtual machines, scheduling, operating systems, real-time support, fault-tolerance, and middleware.
Track 4) Embedded systems architecture - Architecture and micro-architecture design, exploration and optimization including application-specific, storage systems, memory and communication.
Track 5) Large-scale system architecture - Multi-core, GPU, heterogeneous systems, system-level communication, and networks-on-chip architectures.
Track 6) Systems of systems - Design and optimization of data centers, cloud computing, heterogeneous embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, etc.
Track 7) Simulation, validation and verification - Hardware/software co-simulation, verification and validation methodologies, formal verification, hardware-accelerated simulation, test methodology, design for testability, specification languages/models, and benchmarks.
Track 8) Power-aware systems - Power- and energy-aware system design and methodologies ranging from low-power embedded systems to energy-efficient large scale systems such as Green IT and Smart Grid.
Track 9) Industrial practices and case studies - Practical impacts on current and/or future industries with applications of the state-of-the-art methodologies and tools in various application areas including wireless, networking, multimedia, automotive, medical systems, sensor networks, etc.