7:50am Welcoming Message

8:00am – 9:05am Session 1 – Application Specific Architectures and Instruction Extensions
Session Chair: Michael Schulte, U Wisconsin-Madison

When Instruction Set Extensions Change Algorithm Design: A Study in Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Johann Groszschaedl (Graz University of Technology), Paolo Ienne, Laura Pozzi (EPFL), Stefan Tillich (Graz University of Technology), and Ajay K. Verma (EPFL)

A Processing Element and Programming Methodology for Click Elements

Andrew Mihal and Kurt Keutzer (UC Berkeley)

AltiVec Compatible Customized SIMD Unit Synthesis for System on Programmable Chip (s)

O. Cheema and O. Hammami (ENSTA)

9:10am – 10:15am Session 2 – Case Studies in Application Specific Processors and Systems
Session Chair: Fadi Kurdahi, UC Irvine

The Molen Media Processor: Design and Evaluation

Georgi Kuzmanov, Georgi Gaydadjiev, and Stamatis Vassiliadis (Delft University of Technology)

High Speed Processor Architecture for Galois/Counter Mode of Operation (GCM)

Bo Yang, Sambit Mishra, Ramesh Karri (Polytechnic University)

A system architecture case study for efficient calibration of memory organizations under process variability (s)

A. Papanikolaou (IMEC), F. Lobmaier, F. Starzer (FH Hagenberg), M. Miranda (IMEC), M. Huemer (U of Erlangen-Nuremberg), F. Catthoor (IMEC)

10:15am – 10:30am Break

10:30am – 11:50p Session 3 – System-level and Multiprocessor Customizations
Session Chair: Joerg Henkel, U Karlsruhe

Accelerating Coupled Embedded Applications through Register-Level Communication between Processing Elements

Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu (UC San Diego)

Energy-Aware Interconnect-Exploration of Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Processors

Andy Lambrechts, Praveen Raghavan, Murali Jayapala, Diederik Verkest, Francky Catthoor (IMEC)

Selective Physically/Virtually-tagged Caches for Energy-Efficient Embedded Processors (s)

Xiangrong Zhou, Peter Petrov (U Maryland, College Park)

n-pipe: Application Specific Heterogeneous Multi-Pipeline Processor Design (s)

Swarnalatha Radhakrishnan, Hui Guo, Sri Parameswaran (U of New South Wales)

11:50pm – 1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm – 2:15pm Keynote Speech:

IBM PERCS Project: Hardware-software co-design of a future supercomputer for high programmer productivity Presentation Slides .
Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM

2:15pm – 2:20pm Break

2:20pm Session 4 – Low-Cost and Energy-Efficient Application Specific Processors
Session Chair: Peter Marwedel, U Dortmund

An Architecture-Oriented Approach to Code Compression for Embedded Processors

Cheng-Hong Li and Steven M. Nowick (Columbia University)

Compiler-directed Synthesis of Multifunction Loop Accelerators

Kevin Fan, Manjunath Kudlur, Hyunchul Park, Scott Mahlke (U Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Low Power Branch Predictor for Application Specific Processors (s)

Raid Ayoub, Alex Orailoglu (UC San Diego)

3:25pm – 3:45pm Break

3:45pm – 5:00pm Panel
Application Specific Customizations: Processor or System Level?

Moderator: Daniel Gajski, UC Irvine

Panelists:
Krisztian Flautner, ARM
Faraydon Karim, ST
Dror Maydan, Tensilica
JoAnn Paul, Virginia Tech
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano