2003 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures
and Synthesis of Embedded Systems (CASES/03)

DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose, CA
Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2003

Final Program

DAY 1 – Thursday Oct. 30

8:00 – 8:30                  Continental breakfast

8:30 – 8:45                  Introduction

8:45 – 10:00                Keynote presentation, Josh Fisher, HP Labs,(pdf)

10:00 - 10:30              Coffee break

10:30 - 12:30              Session 1: Compilation (Chair: Jack Davidson)

• Vectorizing for a SIMdD DSP Architecture(ppt)
  Dorit Naishlos, Marina Biberstein, Shay Ben-David, Ayal Zaks, IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa, Israel
• Simple Offset Assignment in Presence of  Subword Data(ppt)
  Bengu Li, Rajiv Gupta, Department of Computer Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
• Efficient Spill Code for SDRAM (pdf)
  V Krishna Nandivada, Jens Palsberg, Purdue University, USA
• Cluster Assignment of Global Values for Clustered VLIW Processors
  Andrei Terechko, Erwan Le Thénaff, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
  Henk Corporaal, Technical University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

12:30 - 2:00                Lunch (provided)

2:00 - 4:00                  Session2: Task Scheduling and Real-Time (Chair: Frank Mueller)

• Extending STI for Demanding Hard-Real-Time Systems(pdf)
  Benjamin Welch,  Shobhit Kanaujia,  Adarsh Seetharam, Deepaksrivats Thirumalai, Alexander G. Dean, North Carolina State University , Raleigh, USA
• Clustered Calculation of Worst-Case Execution Times
  Andreas Ermedahl, Mälardalen Real-Time Research Center, Västerås, Sweden; Friedhelm Stappert, C-LAB, Paderbon, Germany; Jakob Engblom, Virtutech, Stockholm, Sweden
• Task-level Timing Models for Guaranteed Performance in Multiprocessor Networks-on-Chip (ppt)
  P. Poplavko, T. Basten, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology; M. Bekooij, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven; J. van Meerbergen, B. Mesman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• System-Level Power-Performance  Trade-Offs in Task Scheduling for Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures (pdf)
  Juanjo Noguera, Hewlett-Packard InkJet Commercial Division, Barcelona, Spain;
  Rosa M. Badia, Computer Architecture Department, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

4:00 - 4:30                  Coffee break

4:30 – 6:00                  Session 3: Code Compression (Chair: Wei Zhao)

• Reducing Code Size With Echo Instructions
  Jeremy Lau, Stefan Schoenmackers, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego; Timothy Sherwood, Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara; Brad Calder, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA
• Compiler Optimization and Ordering Effects on VLIW Code Compression
  Montserrat Ros, Peter Sutton, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Reducing Code Size for Heterogeneous-Connectivity-Based VLIW DSPs through Synthesis of Instruction Set Extensions (ppt)
  Partha Biswas, Nikil Dutt,  Center for Embedded Computer Systems, University of California, Irvine, USA

6:00 – 7:00                  Invited speaker, Prof. Krishna Palem
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
”Energy Aware Algorithm Design via Probabilistic Computing: From Algorithms and Models to Moore’s Law and Novel (Semiconductor) Devices”

7:00 – 8:00                  Reception (sponsored by Fujitsu)

 

DAY 2 – Friday Oct. 31

8:00 – 8:30                  Continental breakfast

8:30 - 10:30                Session 4: Microprocessor Architecture (Chair: Walid Najjar)

·          Frequent Loop Detection Using Efficient Non-Intrusive On-Chip Hardware (ppt)

Ann Gordon-Ross and Frank Vahid, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California Riverside, USA

• Increasing the Number of Effective Registers in a LowPower Processor Using a Windowed Register File(ppt)
  Rajiv Ravindran, Robert M. Senger, Eric D. Marsman, Ganesh S. Dasika, Matthew R. Guthaus, Scott A. Mahlke, Richard B. Brown, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
• Automatic Generation of Application Specific Processors(pdf)
  David Goodwin, Darin Petkov, Tensilica, USA
• A Scalable Wide-Issue Clustered VLIW with a Reconfigurable Interconnect (pdf)
  Osvaldo Colavin, Davide Rizzo, STMicroelectronics, Inc., San Diego, USA

10:30 – 11:00              Coffee break

11:-00 – 12:30            Session 5: Emerging Areas (Chair: Boon Ang)

·          A New Look at Exploiting Data Parallelism in Embedded Systems (ppt)
Hillery Hunter, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;  
J.H. Moreno, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA

·          Fault Tolerant Platforms for Automotive Safety Critical Applications
Massimo Baleani, A. Ferrari, L. Mangeruca, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, PARADES EEIG, Rome, Italy;
Maurizio Peri, Saverio Pezzini, ST Microelectronics, Agrate Brianza, Italy

• Programming Challenges in Network Processor Deployment,(pdf)
  Chidamber Kulkarni, Matthias Gries, Christian Sauer, Kurt Keutzer, Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA

12:30 – 2:00                Lunch (provided)

2:00 – 4:00                  Session 6: Embedded Applications (Chair: Kees Vissers)

• Encryption Overhead in Embedded Systems and Sensor Network Nodes: Modeling and Analysis (ppt)
  R. Venugopalan, P. Ganesan, P. Peddabachagari, A. Dean, F. Mueller, M. Sichitiu, Center for Embedded Systems Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
• AES and The Cryptonite Crypto Processor
  Dino Oliva, Rainer Buchty, Nevin Heintze, Agere Systems, Holmdel, USA
• A Low­Power Accelerator for the SPHINX 3 Speech Recognition Systema(ppt)
  Binu Mathew, Al Davis, Zhen Fang, School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
• Architectural Optimizations for Low-Power, Real-Time Speech Recognition
  Rajeev Krishna, Scott Mahlke, and Todd Austin, Advanced Computer Architecture Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

4:00 – 4:30                  Coffee break

4:30 - 6:30                  Session 7: Power and Energy (Chair: Trevor Mudge)

• Graphical User Interface Energy Characterization for Handheld Computers(ppt)
  Lin Zhong, Niraj K. Jha, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
• A Hierarchical Approach for Energy Efficient Application Design Using Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
  Sumit Mohanty, Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• A Control-Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Voltage Scheduling
  Ankush Varma, Brinda Ganesh, Mainak Sen, Suchismita Roy Choudhury, Lakshmi Srinivasan, and Bruce Jacob, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
• Power Efficient Encoding Techniques for Off-chip Data Buses
  Dinesh C Suresh, Banit Agrawal, Jun Yang, Walid Najjar,  Laxmi Bhuyan, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, USA

 

DAY 3 – Saturday Nov. 1

8:00 – 8:30                  Continental breakfast

8:30 - 11:00                Session 8: Memory Hierarchy (Chair: Scott Mahlke)

·          Compiler Decided Dynamic Memory Allocation for Scratch-Pad Based Embedded Systems(ppt)
Sumesh Udayakumaran, Rajeev Barua, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

·          Exploiting Bank Locality in Multi-Bank Memories
U. Sezer, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA;  
G. Chen, M. Kandemir, H. Saputra, M. J. Irwin, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

·          Lattice-Based Memory Allocation(ppt)
Alain Darte, CNRS LIP ENS-Lyon, Lyon, France; Rob Schreiber, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, USA; Gilles Villard, CNRS LIP ENS-Lyon, Lyon, France

·          Performance, Energy, and Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicating Hot Cache Lines
W. Zhang, M. Kandemir, A. Sivasubramanian, M.J. Irwin, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

• Polynomial Time Algorithm for On-Chip Scratchpad Memory Partitioning(ppt)
  Federico Angiolini, Luca Benini, Alberto Caprara, University of Bologna, DEIS, Bologna, Italy

11:00 - 11:30              Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00              Wrap-up / business meeting