[HiPEAC-announce] CFP - DATE'09 Application Design Track

[Luca Fanucci]

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                            Application Design Track at DATE 2009
                                 Nice, France - April 20-24, 2009
                                  http://www.date-conference.com
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[IMPORTANT DATES]

- Submission of papers: September 7, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: November 17, 2008
- Deadline for final version: December  12, 2008

[SCOPES]

The Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference and exhibition is the
main European event bringing together designers and design automation users,
researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software
design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems.
The Application Design Track is devoted to the presentation and discussion
of  design experiences with a high degree of industrial relevance, as well
as innovative design methodologies and use of specific design technologies
in different application domains.

[MAIN TOPICS]

A1 Signal processing for the media domain
Chairs:    John Dielissen (NXP Semiconductors, NL)
              Gibong Jeong (Samsung Electronics, JP)

Intellectual Property, System on Chip and embedded system design experiences
for the Audio, Video, and Vision domain. Examples of IP are JPEG, MPEG, FFT
decoders, data compression, and Application Specific Processors (ASP)
/Digital Signal Processors (DSP) for these domains.

A2 Wireless Communication and Networking
Chairs: Cyprian Grassmann (Infineon Technologies, DE)
            Guido Masera (Politecnico Torino, IT)

Practical design experiences for digital and mixed-signal integrated
circuits, RF architectures, Software Defined Radio components,
Analog/mixed-signal, Intellectual Properties for wireless communication,
baseband processing, forward error correction and networking.

A3 Automotive
Chairs: Luca Fanucci (University of Pisa, IT)
           Christian Sebeke (Robert Bosch, DE)

Practical design experiences for automotive applications: analogue and
mixed-signal integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems,
integrated sensors and transducers, RF architectures, real-time reliable
embedded systems, interconnected systems, design for reliability and design
of safety-critical systems. Practical application of design methods to
automotive systems.

A4 Secure embedded implementations
Chairs: Ingrid Verbauwhede (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)
           Jerome Quevremont (Thales, FR)

Technologies and experiences in designing secure system-on-chips and
embedded systems. Topics of interest include novel techniques for embedded
cryptography, side-channel attacks and fault attacks modeling,
characterization, simulation and associated countermeasures, random numbers
generation, embedded secure processors, trusted computing, off-chip memories
and network on chip enciphering and integrity checking, trust establishment
and attestation.

A5 Military, space and avionics
Chairs: Bernard Candaele (Thales, FR)
            Philippe Manet (Université Catholique de Louvain, BE)

Practical design experiences and innovative solutions for military, space
and avionic systems. Topics of interest address applications like Software
Radio, Galileo systems, on-board computing for Avionics, and development
items like reconfigurable hardware, DSP and image processing, safety
critical design, new electronic devices, covering also the specificities of
the domain in terms of high performance and life cycle.

A6 Application of Reconfigurable and Adaptive Systems
Chairs: Christoph Heer (Infineon Technologies, DE), Michael Huebner
(Universitat Karlsruhe, DE)

Reconfigurable and adaptive systems in real application cases featuring
structured ASIC, FPGA and coarse-grained architectures and platforms.

A7 Technologies and applications for healthcare
Chairs: Marco Bianchessi (STMicroelectronics, IT)
           Danilo De Rossi (University of Pisa, Italy)

Technologies and experiences in designing bio-medical systems. Topics of
interests include: bioelectronics/biomedical instrumentations, implantable
and wearable electronics, biomedical aids to the disables, integration of
fluidics and electronics (biosystem-on-chip), technology and application for
healthcare, bio-medical signal acquisition and processing.

A8 Multi-core Platforms
Chairs: Marcello Coppola (STMicroelectronics, FR)
            Frédéric Pétrot (TIMA, FR)

Practical design experiences and funded project application demonstrators
based on innovative energy/performance efficient multi-core architectures.
Topics of interest but are not limited to: multi-processor, configurable
cores, memory controllers, efficient memory hierarchy, on chip communication
(bus, NoC) architecture and support for multicore, programming models, power
and energy issues in multi-core architectures, floor plan aware architecture
optimization.

A9 MEMS and analogue/mixed signal system implementations
Chairs: Paolo D'Abramo (Austriamicrosystems, IT)
           Jörg Eichholz (Fraunhofer Institut fur Siliziumtechnologie, DE)

Practical design experiences of MEMS and analogue/mixed signal systems.
Topics of interests include design, implementation and testing of data
converter, analog and mixed signal processing, sensor conditioning, smart
interfaces, controlling techniques and system in a package technology for a
wide range of practical cases including biomedical, environmental
applications, consumer, automotive.

[SUBMISSION GUIDELINES]

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically following the instructions
on the conference Web page: www.date-conference.com
Papers can be submitted for either standard oral presentation or for
interactive presentation.
Submissions should not exceed 6 pages in length for oral-presentation and 4
pages in length for interactive-presentation papers.

[DATE Application Design Track Chair]

Luca Fanucci
Dept. of Information Engineering
University of Pisa
Via G. Caruso, 16, I-56122 Pisa, Italy
e-mail: l.fanucci at iet.unipi.it