WISH 2012

WISH - 4^th Workshop on Infrastructures for Software/Hardware co-design

About WISH

The development of co-designed hardware and software systems is hindered by the lack of available fast, accurate, and reliable infrastructures for performance evaluation and analysis. Simultaneously varying both software and hardware system component introduces complexities that render traditional evaluation methodologies inappropriate: they assume that either the hardware or the software components of a system are fixed. For example, an accepted methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of a compiler optimization is to compare the execution of two differently compiled binaries on the same hardware. Likewise, an accepted methodology for evaluating microarchitectural hardware changes has been to measure relatively short, but representative, samples of the same program's execution with multiple configurations of a detailed timing simulator.

Nonetheless, both industry and academia pursue projects to co-design hardware and software systems. Researchers have been forced to build their own custom infrastructures and to invent methodologies to demonstrate the viability of their ideas. This workshop brings together experienced practitioners to share their expertise and knowledge with a wider audience in hopes of broadening community understanding and participation. We seek to identify readily available building blocks and tools, along with opportunities for further improvements.

Submission Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Trace-based and simulation-based infrastructures
Performance analysis tools and profiling techiques
Algorithms and representations for co-design
Design and optimization of novel architectures
System design
Language support for dynamic optimization
Software to hardware mapping
FPGA-based prototyping
Novel methodologies for evaluating co-designed:

Mobile environments
Virtual execution environments
Dynamic optimization techniques
Static compilation techniques
Graphics systems
Memory systems, including transactional and consistency models
Parallelization detection/exploitation techniques

Important Dates

~~February 10^th~~February 24^th: Extended abstracts due
March 9^th: Notification of acceptance
April 1^st : Workshop date

Submission Guidelines

Please, submit a 3 page double spaced extended abstract at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wish12.

Workshop Organizers