The conference is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.

SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

o Embedded system architecture:
Multiprocessors, reconfigurable platforms, memory management support,
communication, protocols, network-on-chip, real-time systems,
embedded microcontrollers, ...
o 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, ...
o Real-time systems:
Software, distributed real-time systems, real-time kernels,
real-time OS, task scheduling, multitasking design, ...
o 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, ...
o 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, ...
o Testing techniques:
Design-for-test, test synthesis, built-in self-test, embedded test,
for embedded and system-on-a-chip systems.
o 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, ...
o 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, ...
o Embedded computing education:
Curriculum issues, teaching tools and methods.
o 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, ...
o Mobile cyber-physical systems:
Mobile robotics and electronics transported by humans or animals,
cyber-physical systems and smartphones, mobile sensor
technologies, ...
o Cyber-physical system security infrastructure:
Cyber security, resilience and privacy issues, intrusion detection,
prevention of malicious attacks, ...
o 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), ...