14th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES)

June 27-28, 2011

Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar, Germany

This year (again), SCOPES 2011 will be held in the beautiful Rheinfels castle in the mid-Rhine valley, back-to-back with the workshop

on mapping applications to MPSoCs.

Please consider presenting your work at SCOPES 2011!

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About SCOPES

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The influence of embedded systems is constantly growing. Increasingly powerful and versatile devices are developed and put on the market at a fast pace. The number of features is increasing, and so are the constraints on the systems concerning size, performance, energy dissipation and timing predictability. Since most systems today use a processor to execute an application program rather than using dedicated hardware, the requirements cannot be fulfilled by hardware architects alone: Hardware and software have to work together to meet the tight constraints put on modern devices.

One of the key characteristics of embedded software is that it heavily depends on the underlying hardware. The reason of the dependency is that embedded software needs to be designed in an application specific way. To reduce the system design cost, e.g. code size, energy consumption etc., embedded software needs to be optimized exploiting the characteristics of the underlying hardware.

SCOPES focuses on the software generation process for modern embedded systems. Topics of interest include all aspects of the compilation process, starting with suitable modeling and specification techniques and programming languages for embedded systems. The emphasis of the workshop lies on code generation techniques for embedded processors. The exploitation of specialized instruction set characteristics is as important as the development of new optimizations for embedded application domains. Cost criteria for the entire code generation and optimization process include runtime, timing predictability, energy dissipation, code size and others. Since today's embedded devices increasingly consist of a multi-processor system-on-chip, the scope of this workshop particularly covers compilation techniques for MPSoC architectures.

In addition, this workshop intends to put a spotlight on the interactions between compilers and other components in the embedded system design process. This includes compiler support for e.g. architecture exploration during HW/SW codesign or interactions between operating systems and compilation techniques. Finally, techniques for compiler aided profiling, measurement, debugging and validation of embedded software are also covered by this workshop, because stability of embedded software is mandatory.

SCOPES 2011 is the 14th workshop in a series of workshops initially called "International Workshop on Code Generation for Embedded Processors". The name SCOPES has been used since the 4th workshop. The scope of the workshop remains software for embedded systems with emphasis on code generation (compilers) for embedded processors. SCOPES will be held in cooperation with ACM SIGBED and EDAA and is sponsored by ArtistDesign European NoE. SCOPES 2011 is co-located with the Map2MPSoC workshop.

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Web Site

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http://www.scopesconf.org/scopes-11/

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Important Dates

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Full paper submission:        February 18, 2011

Notification of acceptance:   March 31, 2011

Final paper submission:         April 23, 2011

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Paper Submission Instructions

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Papers should present original research results not published or submitted for publication in other forums. Papers should not exceed

10 pages in ACM format (single-spaced, 2 columns, 9pt font; for formatting instructions and templates visit the ACM website:

http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the SCOPES paper

submission website. To permit blind review, submissions should not include the author names. Accepted papers will be published

via the ACM digital library.

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General Chair

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Henk Corporaal, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

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Program Chair

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Sander Stuijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

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Publicity Chair

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Peter Marwedel , Dortmund University of Technology, DE

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Program Committee

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Iuliana Bacivarov, ETH Zurich, CH

Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, USA

Marco Bekooij, NXP Semiconductors, NL

Koen de Bosschere, University of Gent, BE

Heiko Falk, Dortmund University of Technology, DE

Jörg Henkel, University of Karlsruhe, DE

Timothy Jones, University of Cambridge, UK

Daniel Kästner, AbsInt GmbH, DE

Andreas Krall, TU Vienna, AT

Akash Kumar, National University of Singapore, SG

Christian Lengauer, University of Passau, DE

Annie Liu , Stony Brook University, USA

Bilha Mendelson, IBM Research Lab, IL

Yunheung Paek, Seoul National University, KR

Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, NL

Todor Stefanov, Leiden University, NL

Jürgen Teich, University of Erlangen, DE

Hugo Venturini, MLstate, FR

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Sponsors

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ACM SIGBED

ArtistDesign European NoE

European Design and Automation Association, EDAA