CFP: 6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP 2008)

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Call for Papers

6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP 2008)
8-9 June 2008
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim CA USA
http://www.sasp-conference.org

co-located with the
Design Automation Conference (DAC)
http://www.dac.com

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DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: March 1st, 2008
DEADLINE FOR FULL PAPER SUBMISSION: March 5th, 2008
ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: April 21st, 2008
FINAL VERSION DUE: Monday, May 8th, 2008

Submissions will be done online on the SASP web site
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SASP 2008 Areas of Interest
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(more details on the web site)

Dramatic embedded systems volumes and associated market segments force
a reevaluation of the best way to satisfy the possibly conflicting
demands placed on processor designs. Domain-specific embedded processors,
such as network, automotive, cellular and others, present interesting
architectural refinements, albeit at the cost of splintering the embedded
processor market. Reprogrammable and/or reconfigurable embedded processors
provide an alternative approach, capable of delivering single,
fixed-silicon architectures, thus amortizing design and manufacturing
costs across large volumes, yet necessitating an answer to the challenge
of effective customization of embedded processors.

The symposium explores (micro)architectural design approaches and
trade-offs and compiler technologies, for both domain-specific and
customizable embedded processors. The symposium aims at generating a
forum wherein challenges and solutions will be explored, discussed and
compared.

Major topics include, but are not limited to:

- Domain-specific processors (network, multimedia, etc.)
- Application-specific hardware accelerators
- Microarchitectural customization techniques
- (Re)configurable architectures (coarse-grained, FPGA, etc.)
- Application specific processors in System-on-a-chip (SOC)
- Application specific customizations for low-power
- Compiler technology targeting customizable processors
- Architectural exploration and hardware software codesign
- Application specific MPSoC
- Design Automation for NoCs
- OS and Middleware support for application specific processors

SASP 2008 Paper Submission
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The Program Committee invites authors to submit papers up to
6 pages in length (8 pages possible, additional fee required),
describing original, unpublished work.

Clearly describe the nature of the work, explain its significance,
highlight novel features, and describe its current status.
The paper submission will be considered evidence that, upon acceptance,
the author(s) will present their paper at the symposium.

Proceedings will appear in the IEEE Digital Library; a special issue in
a major IEEE journal is also planned for best papers.

SASP 2008 Contacts
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Paolo Ienne, EPFL
Peter Petrov, U Maryland

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Alex Orailoglu, UC San Diego
Laura Pozzi, U Lugano

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano

FINANCE CHAIR
Peter Petrov, U Maryland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Includes:
Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, UC Irvine
Philip Brisk, EPFL
Ching-Te Chiu, National Tsing Hua U
Nikil Dutt, UC Irvine
Joerg Henkel, U Karlsruhe
Ryan Kastner, UC San Diego
Rainer Leupers, RWTH Aachen U
Grant Martin, Tensilica
Tulika Mitra, National U Singapore
Walid Najjar, UC Riverside
Sri Parameswaran, U New S Wales
JoAnn Paul, Virginia Tech
Norbert Wehn, U Kaiserslautern
Sami Yehia, Thales Group