CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON EXPLOITATION OF HARDWARE ACCELERATORS

JOURNAL: Microprocessors and Microsystems -- Embedded Hardware Design

Guest Editors: Ramón Doallo, Margarita Amor, Basilio B. Fraguela
(Universidade da Coruña, Spain)

The Elsevier Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO) Journal seeks original
manuscripts for a Special Issue on Exploitation of Hardware
Accelerators scheduled to appear in the first half of 2011.

The importance of hardware accelerators (GPUs, Cell, FPGAs, ...) is
increasing rapidly, especially in the computationally demanding
disciplines such as realistic 3D computer graphics and high-performance
scientific computing. The use of these accelerators for General-Purpose
computation achieves speedups of orders of magnitude vs. optimized CPU
implementations. They have become powerful, capable, and inexpensive
coprocessors useful for a wide variety of computation.

This Special Issue is focused on issues related to experiences and
knowledge in novel solutions exploiting and defining new trends in
hardware accelerators, including hardware architecture, software tools,
and applications. All authors who presented papers at WEHA 2010 are
encouraged to submit an extended version of their paper to MICPRO for
possible inclusion in this special issue. However, besides submissions
based on WEHA 2010 papers, other high quality submissions within the
scope of the special issue are also welcome. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three reviewers to ensure very high quality of
selected papers for the special issue.

AREAS OF INTEREST

The topics of specific interest for this Special Issue include, but are
not limited to the following:

• Languages and Compilers for Hardware Accelerators
• Libraries and Tools to Simplify the Programming of Hardware Accelerators
• Manual and Automatic Optimization Techniques
• Application Development Experience
• Benchmarking of Hardware Accelerators
• Modeling and Performance Prediction for Hardware Accelerators
• Novel Accelerator Architectures

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original
research which is neither published, nor currently under review by other
journals or conferences. The author guidelines for preparation of
manuscript can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/micpro. A
limit of 20 pages in the submission format will be enforced. All
manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through
the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at the following location
http://ees.elsevier.com/micpro/. The authors must select " Special
Issue: EHA" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission
process.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline ------------------------------------------ September 10, 2010
Acceptance/Rejection Notification ------------------------------- November 15, 2010
Final Version of the Paper -------------------------------------- February 15, 2011