Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
2009-10-11

On behalf of the CODES+ISSS 2009 Program Committee, we would like to welcome you to the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software-Co-Design and System Synthesis. CODES+ISSS is the premier conference for system-level design, with a focus on the design of embedded systems hardware, software, and tools. This year we continue the tradition of maintaining a high-quality forum for active discussion on current and innovative topics on embedded systems that bring together the latest in academic and industrial research and development. We selected the best submitted papers through a rigorous review process, and have assembled an exciting program with a mix of keynotes, tutorials, special sessions, panels, and regular papers. This year we received a new record of 157 full paper submissions and selected 51 papers for publication, with an acceptance rate of 32%. The Program Committee carefully reviewed all papers, with an average of 4 reviews per paper. The Committee then met face to face for detailed discussions on the papers. Final paper selections were based on overall quality and novelty. Active interaction between presenters and audience has been traditionally extremely important in this conference. To encourage this we have organized poster sessions for all papers right after their 30 minute oral presentations. This will give you the opportunity to discuss with all presenters independently of which of the two parallel tracks you attended. We trust you will find this year's program to be exciting and stimulating. It truly contains important advances in theory and practice of system-level design and related areas. We also continue the tradition of complementing the CODES+ISSS program with tutorials and workshops. This year's tutorials cover timely and emerging topics such as Smart Cameras and Visual Sensor Networks, Future Embedded Systems, Multimedia Power Management. Several workshops on Thursday and Friday promise a full week of hot topics. Please also note that on Wednesday for the first time we have a full industry track (industrial day) with a final panel discussion at the end of the day. CODES+ISSS is part of the growing Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) event that is becoming the premier international event in embedded systems research and development. CODES+ISSS is complemented by two other flagship sister conferences: EMSOFT (focused on embedded software), and CASES (focused on architecture and compilers). Registrants to ESWEEK are affiliated with a primary conference, but may attend sessions in any of the three conferences. Moreover, the technical programs of the three conferences, including keynotes, special sessions, panels, tutorials and workshops, have been carefully planned to avoid major overlaps and complement each other. The high technical quality of the CODES+ISSS program is a direct result of the dedicated efforts of the Steering Committee, Organizing Committee, Technical Program Committee and numerous reviewers who contributed their time and expertise, as well as the authors who submitted their work to the conference. We are grateful to all of them for their efforts and thank them whole heartedly. We would also like to thank our sponsoring societies: ACM SIGBED, SIGDA, SIGMICRO, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS), Computer Society (CS) and the Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). This year the conference takes place in Grenoble, France. We hope you enjoy the conference and the location and we look forward to your participation in CODES+ISSS 2009!