Codes/CASHE '96, Pittsburgh 18-20 March 96

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                            WORKSHOP PROGRAM & REGISTRATION INFORMATION


              4th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-design
                                                    Codes/CASHE '96


                                      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Sheraton at Station Square
                                                    March 18-20, 1996


Joint sponsorship ACM SIGDA, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE CS, IEEE CAS, IFIP 10.5
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The increasing complexity of electronic systems requires a closer link
between hardware and software development. In recent years, computer
aided HW/SW co-design has developed into a new research focus in academia
and industry. The Codes/CASHE (Computer Aided SW/HW Engineering)
workshop is the major international forum for the presentation and
exchange of ideas and advanced work, and for the identification of new
rewsearch topics in this field. It addresses theoretical aspects,
methods, and tools for computer aided HW/SW co-design. The workshop will
consist of short oral presentations combined with poster sessions, and of
group discussions on selected topics.


This e-mail includes the advance program and registration information.
This information may also be found on the Worldwide Web at:


http://www.ece.cmu.edu/afs/ece/usr/thomas/codes.html




Overview




The workshop puts emphasis on discussions and open sessions rather than
on conference-style presentations. The 18 selected papers are presented
in 5 paper sessions which start with a 10 minute oral introduction of
each paper followed by a poster discussion of all papers of a session.


The proposed topics of the parallel group discussions are announced on
the workshop web page together with a short introduction by the
moderators. This gives everybody the opportunity to prepare for the
discussions. We can still add topics. Just send an email to the program
chair together with a short statement on the motivation and an outline on
what should be discussed. The proposers will be asked to moderate the
sessions. The results of the group discussions will be summarized in the
workshop web page.




Two complementary session forms allow every workshop participant to
present recent work or ideas. All participants can bring a poster to the
open poster session. After the workshop, we will list the titles of the
posters in the workshop web page and set a pointer to the authors. The
"rump" session at the end of the workshop is a plenary session divided in
5 minute slots which are assigned to anybody who wants to make a short
statement on any co-design related topic which people should take home to
think about, possibly some problems or new aspects which came up during
the workshop or just reflections on workshop contents. If there is enough
material we could include a summary of the session in the web page.




Schedule


Sunday, March 17:


18:00 - 19:00 Registration


19:00 - 21:00 Reception




  Monday, March 18:


8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast




9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Opening




9:15 - 10:30 Paper Session 1: Transformation Based Co-Design
                                and Communication Synthesis


"Embedded Architecture Co-Synthesis and System Integration"
Steven Vercauteren, Bill Lin, Hugo De Man, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium


"A Multi-Level Transformation Approach to HW/SW Codesign: A Case Study"
Tommy King-Yin Cheung, Graham R. Hellestrand, Prasert Kanthamanon,
VLSI and Systems Technology Laboratory, School of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia


"Fully Parallel Hardware/Software Codesign for Multi-Dimensional DSP
Applications"
Michael Sheliga, Nelson Luiz Passos, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame




10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break




10:45 - 12:15 Paper Session 2: Estimation Techniques




"A Co-Design Methodology Based on the Specification Language LOTOS"
C. Carreras, J.C. Lspez, M.L. Lspez, C. Delgado-Kloos, N. Martmnez, L.
Sanchez Universidad Politicnica de Madrid, Spain




"Speed-Up Estimation for HW/SW-Systems"
Wolfram Hardt, University of Paderborn, Germany;
Wolfgang Rosenstiel, University of Tubingen, Germany


"A Framework for Interactive Timing Constraint Analysis of Embedded
Systems"
Rajesh K. Gupta, Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


"The Interplay of Run-Time Estimation and Granularity in HW/SW
Partitioning"
Jorg Henkel, Rolf Ernst, Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany


12:15 - 13:30 Lunch




13:30 - 15:30 Panel on the RASSP-Program


                                Organizer: Anthony J. Gadient,


                                Advanced Technology Group, SCRA, Charleston


15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break




15:45 - 17:30 Invited Talk:
Establishing and Maintaining Performance Baselines for HW/SW Systems
Professor Jay Strosnider,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Carnegie Mellon University




  Dinner on your own.




  Tuesday, March 19


8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast




9:00 - 10:30 Paper session 3: Partitioning and Clustering




"Partitioning and Exploration Stategies in the TOSCA Co-Design Flow"
A. Balboni, ITLTEL_SIT, Castelletto di Settimo, Italy
W. Fornaciari, CEFRIEL and Politecnico di Milano, Italy
D. Sciuto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


"Process Partitioning for Distributed Embedded Systems"
Junwei Hou, Wayne H. Wolf
  Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University


"Two-level Partitioning of Image Processing Algorithms for the Parallel
Map-oriented Machine" Reiner W. Hartenstein, Jorgen Becker, Rainer Kress
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany


"PACE: A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Hardware/Software
Partitioning"
Peter Voigt Knudsen, Jan Madsen
Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby


10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break




10:45 - 12:00 Paper session 4: Case studies




"A Model for the Coanalysis of Hardware and Software Architectures"
Fred Rose, Todd Carpenter, John Shackleton, Todd Steeves,
Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis


"A Case Study in Codesign of Communication Controllers - A User Driven
Approach" R. Gerndt,
Institute for Applied Micoelectronics, Braunschweig, Germany


"Formal Verification of Embedded Systems Based on CFSM Networks"
Felice Balarin, Cadence Berkeley Laboratories, USA;
Luciano Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino, Italy;
Harry Hsieh, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of
California at Berkeley;
Attila Jurecska, Magneti Marelli, Italy


12:00 - 13:15 Lunch




13:15 - 15:15 Group Discussions




Topic 1: Representation Issues in Co-Design


Moderator: Giovanni DeMicheli, Stanford University


Topic 2: The Role of Flexibility in Co-Design


Moderator: Rolf Ernst, University of Braunschweig, Germany


15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break




15:30 - 17:45 Open Poster Session




18:00 - 20:00 Workshop Dinner




20:00 Open discussion about workshop organization,
                publication issues, benchmarks, etc.


  Wednesday, March 20


8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast




9:00 - 10:30 Paper session 5: Modeling and Simulation


"Towards a Model for Hardware and Software Functional Partitioning"
Frank Vahid, Thuy dm Le
Department of Computer Science, University of California at Riverside


"Implications of Codesign as a Natural Constituent of a Systems
Engineering
Discipline for Computer Based Systems"
Markus Voss, Oliver Hammerschmidt, Universitdt Karlsruhe, Institut fur
Mikrorechner und Automation, Germany


"Uninterpreted Co-Simulation for Performance Evaluation of Hw/Sw
Systems"
J.P. Calvez, D. Heller, O. Pasquier
IRESTE, Nantes, France


"Fast and Accurate Hardware-Software Co-Simulation Using Software Timing
Estimates",
Claudio Passerone, Luciano Lavagno, Wilsin Gosti, Alberto
Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Dept. of EE & CS, University of California at Berkeley




10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break




10:45 - 12:00 "Rump" session: 5 min. statements




12:00 End of workshop




Conference Registration Form
CODES/CASHE '96 Registration
4th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-Design


Sheraton at Station Square
Pittsburgh, PA USA


March 18-20, 1996


Workshop Registration Form


Registration and Fees


To register, please print out and fill in the attached registration form,
attach check and return the registration form and check in US dollars
drawn on a US bank (Payable to "Codes/CASHE-96 Workshop" ) to:


Attn: Professor Donald Thomas
CODES/CASHE 96' Workshop Registration
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213


If you want to pay Late/On-Site, we ask that you still fill out the
registration form and send it either by email chraska@ece.cmu.edu,
fax (412) 268-6662 Attention: Jacqueline Chraska, or regular mail.
This will allow us to get an accurate count for planning purposes.


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The registration fees includes the Sunday reception, Tuesday's dinner,
continental breakfasts, two lunches and break refreshments. It also
includes a Proceedings to which some of the speakers have contributed
papers.


Advance Registration Fees Must be received on or before February 26,
1996):


Members (ACM or IEEE) $ 320.00 ______________


Non-members $400.00______________


Students $200.00______________


  Late/On-Site Registration Fees (after February 26, 1996):


Members (ACM or IEEE) $385.00 ______________


Non-members $480.00______________


Students $240.00______________


No refund will be made unless a written request for cancellation is made
before February 26, 1996.






Accomodations for the CODES/CASHE '96


The Sheraton at Station Square
7 Station Square Drive
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
Tel: 412-261-2000
Toll-Free Reservations: 1-800-255-7488
Fax: 412-261-2932


A limited number of rooms have been blocked for the Codes/CASHE 96'
Workshop. Be sure to make your room reservations early to take
advantage of the special rate. Reservations request must be made by
February 25, 1996 by 5:00 PM. Eastern Time. After this date,
reservations will be based on room and rate availablilty. Rooms will
be held until 6:00 PM unless guaranteed with an accepted credit card.
The Hotel's check-in time is after 3:00 PM. Hotel check-out time is
12:00 noon. Cancellation policy is 48 hours prior to arrival.




Hotel Rates:


Single - $111.00
Double - $121.00


Tax not included.


When making your Hotel reservation please state that you will be attending
the Codes/CASHE 96' Workshop.


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