The sessions cover a wide range of topics, ranging from introducing the promises of healthcare electronics, over consolidating the latest developments in design and test methodologies to discussing the benefits of emerging technologies.

A hot topic session "Health-care electronics: the market, the challenges, the progress (session 8.7)" will offer the attendees a complete picture of this emerging field, from business to technology and design aspects. Hereto, market realities, trends and hypes will be pointed out. The practical design challenges will be introduced. Design experiences on a neuro-stimulation device will be shared.

Three sessions will cover recent advanced in design methodologies. In a first embedded tutorial, industry will meet academia, discussing "Programming MPSoC platforms: works ahead (session 12.1)". The session will cover all aspects of parallel software design, from parallelization to debugging. A second tutorial touches base with experts on "High-level modeling and Verification (session 3.4)". They will overview current design practice in industry for building high-level simulations using SystemC TLM standards and IP-XACT, methods to qualify these models and finally, a solver technology to verify equivalence between TLM models and RTL code.  Finally, a panel will determine if "The second wave of high-level synthesis is the one that Industry will surf on? (session 4.4)" Specialists from system houses, EDA and universities will look into the reason why HLS has become hot again and what are the next challenges?

Two sessions will present the audience with the promising technologies that may disrupt system design in next 3 to 8 years. A first hot topic session, "The Impact of Non-volatile Memory on Architecture Design and Tools (session 7.2)", will give an overview of non volatile memory technologies and indicate how these may affect future memory architecture design. A second hot topic session is titled "The nano-electronics Challenge - Chip Designers meet Real Nano-electronics in 2010s (session 5.2)". It has as objective to look beyond CMOS technologies, and see which technology may deliver the highest computational efficiency and initiate the discussion on how to mitigate design/technology risks.

Finally, one embedded tutorial will address "Contactless Testing: Possibility or Pipe-Dream? (session 6.5)" Contactless testing is an interesting road to increase test access in advanced technologies where IO pads are extremely high and/or not accessible. Recent progress in this field will be high-lighted.

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