The 2009 International Workshop on Reconfigurable and Multicore Embedded Systems (WoRMES' 2009) - Vancouver, Canada

With the progress and popularization of embedded systems in the past few years, efficiency, instead of functionalities, has become an important factor in measuring the value of embedded systems. How to efficiently use the limited resources in an embedded system to obtain optimal performance has also become a very important issue. Reconfigurable and multi-core architectures are promising solutions to this issue. Compared to conventional hardware with fixed functionalities, reconfigurable hardware has better flexibility in using the limited resources in an embedded system. For the same amount of computing resources, conventional hardware can provide a single set of functionalities only. However, reconfigurable hardware can reuse the same resources to provide multiple sets of functionalities at different time points. Developers of embedded systems can also use the reconfigurable technology to satisfy system requirements such as small area, high performance, and low power consumption. The reconfiguration technology is especially suitable for implementing run-time systems such as wireless sensor applications. In the conventional single-core architecture, all loads of computation burdened the only core and the performance is limited to a critical point. This limitation is solved by the multi-core architecture. In the multi-core architecture, all of the cores can share the loads to achieve load balancing and improve the performance substantially by exploring the parallelism of computations. Since adopting both reconfigurability and multi-core architectures can achieve high performance, how to integrate these two technologies to achieve much higher performance is an attractive research issue. The contribution of this workshop is to encourage researchers to publish their experiences in reconfigurable computing technologies, multi-core embedded systems, and the integration of the two research areas.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the state-of-the-art in reconfigurable computing technologies and multi-core embedded systems. The researchers can share their research results in a comfortable and relaxed environment, and then get some feedback to improve their research and advance the development of reconfigurable computing technologies and multi-core embedded systems.

WoRMES' 2009 will focus on the topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

Reconfigurable Embedded Systems Track

Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures

Runtime Resource Management of Reconfigurable Hardware

Operating Systems for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

Application Design for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Techniques

Programming Models for Reconfigurable Systems

Multi-core Embedded Systems Track

Multi-core Operating Systems and Scheduling

Hardware Designs for Multi-core Architectures

Multi-core Application Design

Programming Models for Embedded Multi-core Architectures

Reconfigurable Multi-core Architecture Design

Reconfigurable Multi-core SoC Implementation