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11th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN
Architectures, Methods and Tools
University of Parma, Parma (Italy), 3-5, September,2008
http://dsd08.iet.unipi.it
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[IMPORTANT DATES]

- Submission of papers: March 3rd, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: May 5th, 2008
- Deadline for final version: June 9th, 2008

[SCOPES]

The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) addresses all
aspects of (embedded) digital and mixed hardware/software system
engineering.
It is a discussion forum for researchers and engineers working on
state-of-the-art investigations, development, and applications.
It focuses on advanced system, design, and design automation concepts,
paradigms, methods and tools, as well as, modern implementation technologies
that enable effective and efficient development of high-quality (embedded)
systems for important and demanding applications in fields such as
(wireless) communication and networking; measurement and instrumentation;
health-care and medicine; military, space, avionic and automotive systems;
security; multi-media and ambient intelligence.

[MAIN TOPICS]

T1: Systems-on-a-chip/in-a-package: generic system platforms and
platform-based design; network on chip; multi-processors; system on
re-configurable chip; system FPGAs and structured ASICs; rapid prototyping;
asynchronous systems; power, energy, timing, predictability and other
quality issues; intellectual property, virtual components and design reuse.

T2: Programmable/re-configurable architectures: processor, communication,
memory and software architectures with focus on application specific and/or
embedded computing, co-processors; processing arrays; programmable fabrics;
embedded software; arithmetic, logic and special-operator units.

T3: System, hardware and embedded software specification, modeling and
verification: design languages; functional, structural and parametric
specification and modeling; simulation, emulation, prototyping, and testing
at the system, register-transfer, logic and physical levels; co-simulation
and co-verification.

T4: System, hardware and embedded software synthesis: system,
hardware/software and embedded software synthesis; behavioral,
register-transfer, logic and physical circuit synthesis; multi-objective
optimization observing power, performance, communication, interconnections,
layout, technology, reliability, robustness, security, testability and other
issues; (dynamic) management of computational resources, power, energy etc.;
design environments for embedded systems and re-configurable computing.

T5: Emerging technologies, system paradigms and design methodologies:
optical, bio, nano and quantum technologies and computing; self-organizing
and self-adapting (wireless) systems; wireless sensor networks; ambient
intelligence and augmented reality; ubiquitous, wearable and implanted
systems; deep sub-micron design issues.

T6: Applications of (embedded) digital systems with emphasis on demanding
and new applications in fields such as: (wireless) communication and
networking; measurement and instrumentation; health-care and medicine;
military, space, avionic and automotive systems; security; multi-media,
instrumentation and ambient intelligence; health-care and medicine;
military, space, avionic and automotive systems; security; multi-media and
ambient intelligence.

[SPECIAL SESSIONS]

SS1: Fault Tolerance in Digital System Design: It addresses all aspects
related to concepts, theory, implementations and applications of fault
tolerance principles in digital systems design.
Special Session Organizer: Z. Kotásek, Brno U. of Technology (CZ)

SS2: Prospective aspects of Networks-on-Chip: It addresses all aspects
related to concepts, implementations and applications of networks-on-chip as
well as related EDA tools. Nonetheless, its focus is on prospective issues
and interdisciplinary topics like reliability, system control, design flow,
application studies and the outlook on future developments in NOC design.
Special Session Organizer: C. Cornelius, Univ. of Rostock (DE)

SS3: Dependability and Testing of Digital Systems: It addresses emerging
issues, hot problems, new solution methods and their hardware and software
implementations in all fields of digital and mixed-signal system
dependability and testing. It it especially focused on the dependability and
testing related to the SoC technology and modern embedded applications.
Special Session Organizer: H. Kubátová, CTU in Prague (CZ)

SS4: Planning and Optimization of Sensor Network Systems: It aims at
contributions regarding both the architectural optimization of wireless
sensor networks and the off-line planning of the overall sensing
infrastructure.
Special Session Organizer: W. Fornaciari, Politecnico Milano (I)

SS5: System-Level Energy Optimization of Embedded Software: It aims at
gathering within the same forum contributions regarding the optimization of
the energy at different abstraction levels: from the design of code up to
the library and task/resource management carried out at the operating system
level.
Special Session Organizer: E. Villar, Universidad de Cantabria (ES)

More information: http://dsd08.iet.unipi.it/specialsessions.htm

[PROCEEDINGS]

The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press and they are widely available through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.