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

http://www.imec.be/odes

April 6, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts

Program

08:15 - Welcome

08:30 - Session 1:  Architectures

• Cost-aware Strength Reduction for Constant Multiplication in VLIW Processors
  Andy Lambrechts , Praveen Raghavan , Murali Jayapala, Francky Catthoor and Diederik Verkest (IMEC)
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• FPGA Resource Estimation for Loop Controllers
  Tom Degryse, Harald Devos and Dirk Stroobandt (Ghent University)
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• Application-Specific Hardware Design for Wireless Sensor Network Energy and Delay Reduction
  Michael Lyons and David Brooks (Harvard University)
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• Compiler-based vs. Hardware-based Power Gating Techniques for Functional Units
  Yen-Hsiang Fang and Yuan-Shin Hwang (National Taiwan Ocean University), Yi-Ping You and Jenq-Kuen Lee (National Tsing Hua University)
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10:30 - Break

11:00 - Session 2:  Keynote

• Liquid Metal: blurring the software/hardware boundary in the multicore era
  Rodric Rabbah (IBM Research)
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12:00 - Lunch (provided)

13:30 - Session 3:  Compilers

• Parameterized Stream-Based Functions Dataflow Model of Computation
  Hristo Nikolov Nikolov and Ed Deprettere (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science)
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• Polynomial Approximations in the Polytope Model: Bringing the Power of Quasi-Polynomials to the Masses
  Benoıt Meister (Reservoir Labs, Inc.) and Sven Verdoolaege (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science)
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• A Static Binary Translator for Efficient Migration of ARM based Applications
  Jiunn-Yeu Chen, Wuu Yang (National Chiao Tung University), Jack Hung (Princeton University), Charlie Su (Andes Technology) and Wei Chung Hsu (University of Minnesota)
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• Invited Paper - Writing Retargetable Compiler Transformations using CG-feedback
  Martien de Jong (ACE Associated Compiler Experts)
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15:30 - Break

16:00 - Session 4: Runtime methods and one case study

• Increasing Energy Savings of Banked Memory Using Object Migration and Replication in Embedded Java Environments
  Patrick Rondon (Univerity of California San Diego), Guangyu Chen (Microsoft Corporation), Mahmut Kandemir and Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan (The Pennsylvania State University)
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• Code Lifetime-Based Memory Reduction for Virtual Execution Environments
  Apala Guha, Kim Hazelwood and Mary Lou Soffa (University of Virginia)
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• Resource-Conscious Optimization of Cryptographic Algorithms on an Embedded Architecture
  Wassim Bassalee  (Analog Devices Inc.) and David Kaeli (Northeastern University)
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17:30 - Closing