Abbrevation
SASP
City
Anaheim
Country
United States
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Abstract

<P>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&#046; Domain&#8211;specific embedded processors, such as network, automotive, cellular and others, present interesting architectural refinements, albeit at the cost of splintering the embedded processor market&#046; Reprogrammable and/or reconfigurable embedded processors provide an alternative approach, capable of delivering single, fixed&#8211;silicon architectures, thus amortizing design and manufacturing costs across large volumes, yet necessitating an answer to the challenge of effective customization of embedded processors&#046; The symposium explores (micro)architectural design approaches and trade&#8211;offs and compiler technologies, for both domain&#8211;specific and customizable embedded processors&#046; </P><B>Keywords:</B> <LI>Domain&#8211;specific processors (Network, multimedia, etc&#046;) <LI>Application&#8211;specific hardware accelerators <LI>Microarchitectural customization techniques <LI>(Re)configurable processor architectures <LI>Dynamically reconfigurable processors (Microarchitectural, Coarse&#8211;grained, FPGA, etc&#046;) <LI>Application&#8211;specific processors in System&#8211;on&#8211;a&#8211;chip (SOC) <LI>Application&#8211;specific customizations for low&#8211;power <LI>Compiler technology targeting customizable processors <LI>Architectural exploration and hardware software codesign <LI>Application specific MPSoC <LI>Design Automation for NoCs <LI>OS and Middleware support for application specific processors </LI>