WASP 2003: Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP'03)

held in conjunction with The 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36)

San Diego, CA, December 2, 2003

WASP'03 Home Page:

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IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Abstract Submission: September 26, 2003 Paper Submission: October 3, 2003 Author Notification: October 26, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers: November 10, 2003

WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

The dramatic embedded processor volumes and the associated market segments force a reevaluation of the best way to satisfy the possibly conflicting demands placed on processor designs. Domain-specific embedded processors, such as network, automotive, cellular and others, present interesting architectural refinements, albeit at the cost of splintering the embedded processor market. Reprogrammable and/or reconfigurable embedded processors provide an alternative approach, capable of delivering single, fixed- silicon architectures, thus amortizing design and manufacturing costs across large volumes, yet necessitating an answer to the challenge of effective customization of embedded processors.

The workshop papers explore (micro)architectural design approaches and trade-offs and compiler technologies, for both domain-specific and customizable embedded processors. The workshop aims at generating a forum wherein the various approaches to address the twin challenges of cost amortization over large volumes while delivering optimal cost, performance, and power characteristics for a wide segment of embedded processor market niches will be explored and compared. WASP explores emerging trends and novel concepts in application-specific processors. Major topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Domain-specific processors (Network, multimedia, etc.) * Application-specific hardware accelerators * Microarchitectural customization techniques * (Re)configurable processor architectures * Dynamically reconfigurable processors (Microarchitectural, Coarse-grained, FPGA, etc.) * Application-specific processors in System-on-a-chip (SOC) * Application-specific customizations for low-power * Compiler techniques for processor customizations * OS and Middleware support for application-specific processors

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

The Program Committee invites authors to submit papers up to 8 pages in length, describing original, unpublished recent work. Clearly describe the nature of the work, explain its significance, highlight novel features, and describe its current status. On the title page, please indicate: title, name, affiliations of all authors, and the topic category. Also identify a contact author and provide complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, and an e-mail address. It is expected that selected papers will be published in a special issue of IEEE MICRO Magazine. Please indicate in the cover page if you would not like your paper to be considered for possible publication in MICRO.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

PROGRAM CHAIR: Alex Orailoglu University of California, San Diego

SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR: Faraydon Karim ST Micro

SPECIAL ISSUE CHAIR: Alex Veidenbaum University of California, Irvine

E-MEDIA CHAIR: Ismet Bayraktaroglu Sun Microsystems

PUBLICATION CHAIR: Peter Petrov University of California, San Diego

PUBLICITY CHAIR: Suleyman Sair North Carolina State University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Siamak Arya Telairity Inc. Kiyoung Choi Seoul National University Apostolos Dollas Technical University of Crete Nikil Dutt University of California, Irvine Kemal Ebcioglu IBM Carl Ebeling University of Washington Paolo Ienne EPFL Fadi Kurdahi University of California, Irvine Reiner Leupers Aachen University Scott Mahlke University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Walid Najjar University of California, Riverside Yale Patt University of Texas, Austin C. Polychronopoulos University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Haldun Hadimioglu Polytechnic University Mateo Valero Technical University of Catalonia Stamatis Vassiliadis Delft University of Technology Hiroto Yasuura Kyushu University Amr Zaky Qualcomm

WASP'03 will be held in conjunction with the MICRO-36 conference held in San Diego, CA from December 3-5, 2003. MICRO is the premier forum for discussing microarchitecture and software techniques. The goals of this symposium are to bring together researchers in the fields related to processor architecture, compilers, and systems for technical interaction on traditional MICRO topics, with a special emphasis on optimizations to take advantage of application-specific opportunities. In addition, this year's MICRO will be looking for contributions that will benefit both the microarchitecture and embedded architecture communities. This year's conference will be held in sunny San Diego.

Information related to MICRO-36 is available at the official MICRO-36 web site:

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MICRO-36 is generously sponsored by ACM SIGMICRO and IEEE, as well as many corporate sponsors.

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