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DATE'12 Friday Workshop
Fourth Friday Workshop on
Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms:
Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications
http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/depcp/
March 16, 2012, Dresden, Germany
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Embedded computing is shifting to multi/many-core designs to boost
performance due to unacceptable power consumption and operating
temperature increase of fast single-core CPU's. Hence, embedded system
designers are increasingly faced with several big challenges, namely:
the support for a variety of concurrent applications, and the platform
heterogeneity. These challenges lead to the following significant
design issues:

* How can applications that exploit the underlying (parallel)
architecture be written without burdening the application designer?

* What does the application designer really need to know of the
underlying architecture?

* What tools are needed to efficiently map applications and what part
of the mapping process should/could be automated?

* How should we design and optimize the underlying architectures?

This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners actively
working on architectures, design tools, and applications for embedded
parallel computing platforms to address these questions and related
issues.


Topic Areas
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* Architectures: on the most relevant problems arising during the
design exploration and optimization of many/multi core architectures.

* Design tools: on the state-of-the-art of tool development, showing
where we are now and the directions we need to move in.

* Applications: on the analysis, development, modification and
integration of applications with respect to parallel computing
platforms.


Organization
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* General Co-Chairs: Cristina Silvano and Giovanni Agosta, Politecnico
di Milano, Italy, Joao Cardoso, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

* Architectures Posters Session Chair: Maurizio Palesi, Kore
University, Italy

* Design Tools Posters Session Chair: Chantal Ykman-Couvreur, IMEC,
Belgium

* Applications Posters Session Chair: Diana Gohringer, Fraunhofer
IOSB, Germany

* Panel Session Co-Chairs: Jurgen Becker and Michael Hubner, Karlsruhe
Inst. of Technology, Germany

* Web Chair and Posters Submission Chair: Sotirios Xydis and Dimitris
Mpekiaris, NTUA, Greece

* Publicity Chair: Maurizio Palesi, Kore University, Italy


Posters Submission Instructions
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We invite posters for each of the three workshop sessions. In addition
to the poster sessions, there will be a short presentation time for
introducing the posters during the workshop. Poster submissions should
either be a 150-200 word abstract or in the form of the poster itself
(in an A4 or US Letter size format) and should clearly identify the
relevant session (architectures, design tools, or applications). A
workshop digest based upon the one-page abstract and one-page poster
will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Note that the
posters presented at the DATE workshops are NOT disseminated through
the official DATE proceedings or through any other formal channels,
such as, for example, the IEEExplore or the ACM Digital
Library. Posters will be published online at the Workshop web site.


Important Dates
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Posters submission deadline: January 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 5, 2012

Posters submission web site will be opened from January 1st, 2012 and
linked from the Workshop web site
(http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/depcp/).