Abbrevation
HARSH
City
Orlando
Country
United States
Deadline Paper
Start Date
End Date
Abstract

To guarantee reliability across these drastically diverse environments, the design and operation of embedded processors should not be solely confined to the chip but traverse different layers in the computing system, involving firmware, operating system, applications, as well as power management units and communication interfaces&#046; The goal of HARSH&#8211;2014 is to facilitate the exchange of the latest ideas, insights, and knowledge related to all critical aspects of new&#8211;generation harsh environment&#8211;capable embedded processors, including micro&#8211;architectural approaches, cross&#8211;stack hardware/software techniques, and emerging challenges and opportunities&#046; We hope to attract a group of interdisciplinary researchers from academia, industry, and government research labs&#046;<br>In addition to the presentation of selected paper submissions, keynote speakers will be invited to kick&#8211;off the workshop sessions and a “Best Paper” award will be presented at the conclusion of the workshop&#046; To encourage discussion between participants, HARSH&#8211;2014 will organize dedicated programs for discussion between presenters and the audience&#046;<br>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br>Architecture design and implementation for highly&#8211;reliable power&#8211;efficient embedded processors:<br>Architectural approaches for reliability assurance under very&#8211;low power budgets&#046;<br>Availability, soft&#8211;error tolerance and recovery issues&#046;<br>Highly&#8211;reliable cache/memory hierarchies&#046;<br>Massive heterogeneous processing capabilities&#046;<br>Power management techniques&#046;<br>Very&#8211;low power, reliable real&#8211;time processing&#046;<br>Specialized accelerator architectures and unique designs&#046;<br>Reusable and/or reconfigurable embedded designs&#046;<br>Packaging and cooling&#046;<br>Cross&#8211;stack hardware/software techniques:<br>Cross&#8211;stack approaches for reliability assurance under very&#8211;low power budgets&#046;<br>Reliability&#8211; and power&#8211;aware operating systems, compilers, workload managers, firmware and other software&#046;<br>Workload analysis and optimization for reliable low&#8211;power embedded systems&#046;<br>Applications:<br>Aerospace: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), planetary rovers and space probes, satellites, avionic systems, etc&#046;<br>Medical support: lifesaving monitors, portable medical devices, high&#8211;end imaging systems, etc&#046;<br>Oil and gas exploration and extraction: unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), measurement while drilling (MWD), logging while drilling (LWD), etc&#046;<br>Aerial surveillance&#046;<br>Disaster search, rescue, and relief&#046;<br>Novel applications for highly&#8211;reliable low&#8211;power embedded chips&#046;<br>