Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications Embedded computing is shifting to multi/many-core designs to boost performance due to unacceptable power consumption and operating temperature increase of fast single-core CPU's. Hence, embedded system designers are increasingly faced with several big challenges, namely: the support for a variety of concurrent applications, and the platform heterogeneity. These challenges lead to the following significant design issues: How can applications that exploit the underlying (parallel) architecture be written without burdening the application designer? What does the application designer really need to know of the underlying architecture? What tools are needed to efficiently map applications and what part of the mapping process should/could be automated? How should we design and optimize the underlying architectures? This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners actively working on architectures, design tools, and applications for embedded parallel computing platforms to address these questions and related issues. March 16, 2012, Dresden, Germany Topic Areas The workshop will have three main topic areas: Architectures: on the most relevant problems arising during the design exploration and optimization of many/multi core architectures. Design tools: on the state-of-the-art of tool development, showing where we are now and the directions we need to move in. Applications: on the analysis, development, modification and integration of applications with respect to parallel computing platforms. Organization General Co-Chairs Cristina Silvano Politecnico di Milano Italy Giovanni Agosta Politecnico di Milano Italy João Cardoso Universidade do Porto Portugal Architectures Posters Session Chair Maurizio Palesi KORE University Italy Design Tools Posters Session Chair Chantal Ykman-Couvreur IMEC Belgium Applications Posters Session Chair Diana Göhringer Fraunhofer IOSB Germany Panel Session Co-Chairs Jürgen Becker Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany Michael Hübner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany Web Chair Sotirios Xydis National Technical University of Athens Greece Posters Submission Chair Dimitris Mpekiaris National Technical University of Athens Greece Publicity Chair Maurizio Palesi KORE University Italy Posters Submission Instructions Submission of posters are invited based on the instructions included in the Call for Posters and covering the topics of the three workshop sessions. In addition to the poster sessions, there will be a short presentation time for introducing the posters during the workshop. Poster submissions should either be a 150-200 word abstract or in the form of the poster itself (in an A4 or US Letter size format) and should clearly identify the relevant session (architectures, design tools, or applications). A workshop digest based upon the one-page abstract and one-page poster will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Note that the posters presented at the DATE workshops are NOT disseminated through the official DATE proceedings or through any other formal channels, such as, for example, the IEEExplore or the ACM Digital Library. Posters will be published online on this web page. Click here for submitting your poster! Posters submission deadline: January 15, 2012 POSTERS DEADLINE EXTENDED to Sunday January 22, 2012 Posters notification of acceptance: February 5, 2012 Call for Posters download Programme Start Time End Time Event 08:30 08:45 Opening Session by General Co-Chairs:Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Giovanni Agosta, Politecnico di Milano, João Cardoso, Universidade do Porto 08:45 09:00 Introduction to Poster Sessions: Jürgen Becker and Michael Hübner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 09:00 10:30 Session on: "Many-Core Architectures and Compilers" - Organizer: Maurizio Palesi, KORE University 09:00 09:45 First Invited Speakers: Eric Flamand, STMicroelectronics, Grenoble, France   "Platform 2012 Many-Core Programmable Accelerator: Status and Perspectives" 09:45 10:30 Second Invited Speaker: Bilha Mendelson, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel   "Compiler optimization techniques to help in automatically parallelize code" 10:30 11:00 Architectures -- Posters Session - COFFEE BREAK (Posters program is now available online) POSTERS    11:00 12:00 Panel on: "Designing and Programming Heterogenous Many-core Platforms: Challenges and Trends" Panel Organizers and Moderators:Jürgen Becker and Michael Hübner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 15:15 Session on: "Design Tools for Many-Core Embedded Computing" - Organizer: Chantal Ykman-Couvreur, IMEC 13:00 13:45 First Invited Speaker: Pedro C. Diniz, INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal   "Rendering FPGAs to Multi-Core Embedded Computing --- Status, Results and Perspectives" 13:45 14:30 Second Invited Speaker: Dimitrios Soudris, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece   "Dynamic Memory Management Techniques for Many-Core Architectures" 14:30 15:00 Design Tools -- Posters Session - COFFEE BREAK (Posters program is now available online) POSTERS    15:00 15:45 Session on: "Applications for Many-Core Embedded Computing" - Organizer: Diana Göhringer, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany 15:00 15:45 Invited Speaker: Volker Hahn, Fraunhofer-Institut, Darmstadt, Germany   "Smart vision based components and applications for embedded computing platforms" 15:45 16:15 Applications -- Posters Session (Posters program is now available online) POSTERS    16:15 16:30 Final Wrap Up Target audience This workshop tries to bring together researchers and practitioners actively working on architectures, design tools, and applications for embedded computing systems. Based on the experience of the last editions of the event, we plan to enforce our publicity efforts to further increase last year‘s attendance (about 50 registered attendees from both industry and academia). The past edition of this Workshop was one of the most successful workshops in terms of attendance among the DATE 2011 Friday's Workshops (as well as in the previous two years). Links to the previous editions of this workshop can be found in Past Editions section. Workshop Proceedings Download DEPCP 2012 Proceedings (Abstract & Poster). Past editions