6th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-Design

The Codes/CASHE (Computer Aided Software/Hardware Engineering) workshop is the major international forum for the presentation and exchange of ideas in this field. It covers all aspects of the specification, design, construction, and verification of embedded systems that include functionality mapped to both hardware and software components. Presentations and discussions address theoretical aspects, design methods, tools, and case studies.

The meeting is structured so as to promote active discussion between all participants in an informal setting. This is accomplished via short oral presentations of accepted papers combined with poster sessions to provide the opportunity to investigate and discuss the ideas in depth. Group discussions will be selected based on submitted proposals and/or based on the interests of the participants.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Computer-aided techniques for HW/SW co-design: Specification languages and modeling techniques, design representations, simulation and validation, formal verification, emulation and physical prototyping, synthesis approaches, system-level design.
2. Target architectures: Distributed and multiprocessor architectures for embedded systems, HW/SW interfaces and communication methods, heterogeneous system design, flexible architectures, embedded system design, case studies.
3. Software for HW/SW co-design: Software development environments, real-time operating systems, distributed systems, process scheduling and other concurrency management techniques, software synthesis approaches, portability of specifications, system integration, testbenches and testing, retargetable compilation.
4. System development process: Concurrent engineering, design re-use, design space exploration, design process management, partitioning, estimation, device libraries, and component models.

Submissions instructions.

Workshop web sites in the North America and Europe are:

	www.cs.washington.edu/research/codes98/
        polimage.polito.it/codes98/

        codes98@cs.washington.edu