The scope of the meeting includes, but is not limited to:

Design Methods and Tools

• Design verification and fault tolerance

• Embedded system security and security validation

• System-level design and hardware/software co-design

• Communication synthesis, architectural and logic synthesis

• Embedded real-time systems and real-time operating systems

• Rapid system prototyping, performance analysis and estimation

• Formal models, transformations, algorithm transformations and metrics

Development Platforms, Architectures and Technologies

• Embedded platforms for multimedia and telecom

• Many-core and multi-processor systems, SoCs, and NoCs

• Reconfigurable ASIPs, FPGAs, and dynamically reconfigurable systems

• Asynchronous (self-timed) circuits and analog and mixed-signal circuits

• Digital bio-signal processing, biologically based and/or inspired systems

Use-Cases and Applications

• Ambient intelligence, ubiquitous and wearable computing

• Global navigation satellite systems, smart cameras, and PDAs

• Security systems, cryptography, object recognition and tracking

• Embedded systems for automotive, aerospace, and health applications

• High-level synthesis and design methodologies for heterogeneous, reconfigurable and/orcustom processors/systems

Smart Sensing Systems

• Sensor networks, environmental and system monitoring

• Vision, audio, fingerprint, health monitoring, and biosensors

• Structurally-embedded, distributed, and multiplexed sensors

• Sensing for active control systems, adaptive and evolutionary sensors