ODES-6: 6th Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems

                            http://www.imec.be/odes

                                 April 6, 2008
                             Boston, Massachusetts

    in conjunction with IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation
                             and Optimization (CGO)

                              http://www.cgo.org/

                             Final call for papers

                               Deadline extended!

   Optimizations are crucial to meet the performance, power and cost
   requirements that DSP and embedded systems have. The aim of the ODES
   workshop is to give the opportunity to researchers and practitioners
   working on this, to share their findings and get feedback. We think
   interacting with the community is crucial to do relevant research, and
   therefore ODES tries to maximize the interaction by i) carefully selecting
   the program committee members that review the submissions and ii) at the
   workshop itself, having both a formal presentation of the work as well as
   a poster session.

  Topics of Interest

   Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     + Algorithmic transformations and code/software optimization
     + Hardware and software optimizations for low-power consumption and/or
       code density
     + Coprocessor and hardware accelerators
     + Compiler techniques and code generation for media processing
     + Optimization techniques for algorihms and systems for video
       compression, pre and post processing
     + Frameworks for profiling and scheduling tasks (multiple/concurrent) on
       various hardware resources (single-core + hardware accelerators,
       dual-core, system-on-a-chip, etc)
     + Hardware/software trade-offs with ASICs, FPGA's, DSPs, general-purpose
       processors, microcontrollers, etc as building blocks
     + Retargetable compilers and reconfigurable architectures

  Important dates and deadlines

     + Submission: January 14, 2008 Extended to January 24, 2008

     + Acceptance: February 18, 2008 New deadline: February 29 2008
     + Final version: March 3, 2008

  Submission guidelines

   To encourage submissions of early work and more mature work, we are
   allowing two submission formats:

     * Either a full paper, not exceeding 10 pages in length, two-column
       formatting preferred.

     * Or a set of slides, along with a brief description (1-2 pages) of the
       main theme of the talk.

   Include the list of authors and their affiliations, addresses, telephone
   and fax numbers, email addresses and the name of the corresponding author.
   Please send the submission/s by the deadline to: Tom Vander Aa and
   Jagadeesh Sankaran via email at vanderaa@imec.be and sankaran@ti.com

  Program co-chairs:

   Jagadeesh Sankaran       sankaran@ti.com          Texas Instruments
   Tom Vander Aa            vanderaa@imec.be         IMEC

  Past chair:

   Deepu Talla                          Texas Instruments

  Program Committee

   Francisco Barat                NXP
   Shuvra Bhattacharrya           University of Maryland
   John Cavazos                   University of Delaware
   Nitin Chandrachoodan           IIT Madras
   Henk Corporaal                 Technical University Eindhoven
   Heiko Falk                     University of Dortmund
   Murali Jayapala                IMEC
   Tor Jeremiassen                Texas Instruments
   Ossi Kalevo                    Nokia
   Hee-Seok Kim                   Samsung
   Yoshinori Takeuchi             Osaka University
   Gary Tyson                     Florida State University

  Past Workshops

   ODES-1: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-1_program.html
   ODES-2: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-2_program.html
   ODES-3: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-3_program.html
   ODES-4: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-4_program.html
   ODES-5: http://www.ece.vill.edu/~deepu/odes/odes-5_program.html