CASES99 Call-for-Participation

REMINDER: the deadline for CASES'99 submissions is right around
the corner (July 15th).


Bruce Jacob
CASES'99 Publicity Chair


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                                                Call for Participation


                                  The Second International Workshop on
                Compiler and Architecture Support for Embedded Systems
                                                            (CASES'99)


                                                    October 1-2, 1999
                                                  Wyndham City Centre
                                                      Washington, D.C.


    CASES'99 provides a forum for researchers to discuss ideas
at the crossroads of domain-specific embedded system design,
compiler and architecture research for high-performance computing,
high-level synthesis, and emerging application domains enabled by
these technologies. Growing demand for high performance in embedded
systems creates new opportunities to leverage instruction-level
parallelism (ILP) and explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC)
in emerging application domains.


This year, the workshop will focus on these emerging application
domains, enabled by high performance embedded processors, and the
challenges and requirements for compilers and architectures needed to
support these domains. Constraints on power consumption, code size,
weight, and cost place stringent requirements on embedded processors
and the software they execute. Real-time image and video processing,
graphics, and speech recognition and multi-media are among the many
compute-intensive applications being enabled in the embedded space
by advances in application-specific designs based on COTS
technologies.


Technical as well as position papers espousing significant novel
ideas and achievements are solicited. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:


      * Novel requirements and constraints such as power consumption,
          from emerging application domains in compilers and architectures


      * Challenges and solutions in microarchitecture design for
          embedded systems using ILP


      * Techniques for the design and synthesis of domain-specific
          embedded processors based on high-level synthesis


      * Exploiting interactions between hardware and software layers,
          spurred by innovation in reconfigurable or adaptive computing
          systems


      * Methods or directions for adapting EPIC/VLIW technology for
          use in domain-specific computing


      * Technologies supporting temporal predictability and performance
          such as compiler controlled memory hierarchies


Presentation of ongoing work is encouraged. The workshop has no
formal proceedings. Results presented at the workshop can be
subsequently published in archival journals. We plan to invite
high-quality papers from the workshop to be submitted for a special
monograph that reflects the workshop's theme.


In addition to presentations, the workshop will feature


      * Two keynote lectures by experts:


            - Lecture 1: "Improving embedded system performance through
                                            application-specific instruction extension"


                By Albert Wang, Tensilica, Inc.


            - Lecture 2: "Military Applications Requiring High Performance
                                            Embedded Signal Processors"


                By David Martinez, MIT


      * Two expert panels from industry, government and academia to
          discuss the following topics:


            - Panel 1: "Where are the Challenges for Emerging Embedded
                                          Applications?"


                Coordinator: Tom Conte, North Carolina State University


            - Panel 2: "Where are the Answers to the Challenges of
                                          Emerging Embedded Applications?"


                Coordinator: Mary Hall, USC-ISI




TO PARTICIPATE, please submit an extended abstract not exceeding FIVE
pages. Electronic submissions of postscript or PDF should be sent via
email to the address below, or send FIVE printed copies to the program
chair at the following address:


                      Krishna V. Palem
                      Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
                      251 Mercer Street
                      New York, NY 10012
                      USA


          Submission deadline: July 15


          Notification of Acceptance: August 31


          E-mail submissions to: CASES99@capsl.udel.edu


          For hotels or other information:


                      http://www.capsl.udel.edu/conferences/cases99




ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


          Program Co-chairs:


                      Guang R. Gao (University of Delaware)
                      Krishna V. Palem (Courant Institute, NYU)


          Local Arrangements Chair:


                      B. Narahari (The George Washington University)


          Publicity Chair:


                      Bruce Jacob (University of Maryland, College Park)


          Panel Chair:


                      Bill Mangione-Smith (UCLA)


          Workshop Committee:


                      Paul Chow (University of Toronto)
                      Kemal Ebcioglu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
                      Eric Flamand (CNET, France Telecom)
                      Mary Hall (USC-ISI)
                      Lee Hwang (MCORE, Motorola Inc.)
                      Richard Johnson (Transmeta Corporation)
                      Edward Lee (UC Berkeley)
                      Wayne Luk (Imperial College)
                      Soo-Mook Moon (Seoul National University)
                      Martin Rinard (MIT)
                      Rob Schreiber (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)
                      Reid Tatge (Texas Instruments)

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