Description:

The future of embedded computing is shifting to multi-core designs to boost performance due to the unacceptable power consumption and operating temperature increase of fast single-core CPU’s. Hence embedded system designers are increasingly faced with the following new big challenges: the support for a variety of concurrent applications, and the platform heterogeneity. These challenges lead to the following significant issues:

• How can we write applications that can exploit the underlying (parallel) architecture, 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 process should be automated?
• How should we design the underlying architectures?

These and other questions will be central to this workshop, which will bring together researchers actively working on architectures, design tools, and applications for embedded parallel computing platforms.

This workshop will have three main sessions:

• Architectures: presenting and discussing the most relevant problems arising during the design exploration and optimization of many/multi core architectures.
• Design tools: focusing on the state-of-the-art of tool development, showing where we are now and the directions we need to move in.
• Applications: discussing the analysis, development, modification and integration of applications with respect to parallel computing platforms.