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CALL FOR PAPERS
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FDL 2009
Forum on specification & Design Languages
September 22-24, 2009
Sofia Antipolis, France
www.ecsi.org/fdl
General Chair: Prof. Dominique Borrione, TIMA Laboratory
Technical co-sponsorship:
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE France Section
FDL2009 will be co-located with:
- SAME 2009 conference www.same-conference.org
- DASIP 2009 conference: www.ecsi.org/dasip
- new event on System and SoC Debug
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions: March 31
Special session & embedded tutorial proposals: April 30
Notification of acceptance: May 15
Presenter's delivery of final version
of accepted papers and registration: July 10
Proposal for on-site meetings September 01
FDL 2009 September 22-24
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SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
FDL is the international forum to exchange experiences and learn new
trends in the application of languages and their associated design
methods and tools for the design of electronic systems. The Forum is
organized around Thematic Areas (TA) (described below) and includes
working sessions, poster sessions, embedded tutorials, panels and
technical discussions. Industrial Workshops and Fringe Meetings such
as user group or standardization meetings are also held in conjunction
with the Forum.
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ABD TA: Assertion Based Design, Verification & Debug
Chair: Hans Eveking Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany
[email protected]
The assertion of formal properties provides
a uniform expression of expected system behavior, or constraints that
are assumed on the environment, for a variety of design tasks:
verification of functional correctness, generation of test stimuli,
synthesis of observation monitors and on-line tests, model checking on
the reachable state space, direct synthesis from assertions, etc.
Standardized formalisms such as PSL and SystemVerilog assertions were
initially intended for synthesizable RTL; their application is now
considered at transaction levels and for mixed system designs. The ABD
Thematic Area welcomes research contributions, tool demonstrations,
reports on standardization activities and effective applications in
all aspects of innovative property expression and processing, with an
emphasis on frontier design levels, verification, automatic synthesis
and mechanized debug aids.
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CSD TA: C/C++-Based System Design
Chair: Frank Oppenheimer OFFIS, Germany
[email protected]
The CSD TA addresses language-based modeling and design techniques for
simulation, debugging, transformation, and analysis of
hardware/software embedded systems. C/C++ based design methodologies
are entering productive industrial design flows especially after the
IEEE standardization of SystemC. Hence, the lion's share of
contributions uses SystemC and its extensions to illustrate the
scientific approach. However, articles using languages like UML,
functional languages, System Verilog are very welcome, especially if
they address interoperability between modeling languages and
heterogeneous models of computations. Topics of interest also include
embedded software modeling techniques and technology or domain
specific approaches, e.g. for signal processing applications or
reconfigurable computing platforms. New mechanisms for abstraction
like transaction level modeling (TLM) or IP-XACT and their
implications on IP-based system design or system synthesis are in the
scope of this workshop as well as innovative industrial case studies.
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EAMS TA: Embedded Analog and Mixed-Signal System Design
Chair: Sorin A. Huss Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany,
[email protected]
Modern information processing systems frequently combine analog, RF,
power electronic, or even non-electrical components with complex
digital hardware and an increasing share of software into an embedded
system. The aggregation and tight interaction of such components
within one data processing system is a challenge: specification,
modeling,simulation, (symbolic) analysis, verification, design,
(virtual) prototyping, or even synthesis of analog, mixed-signal, and
heterogeneous systems, i.e., embedded systems processing both discrete
and continuous signals, are highly complex issues. Furthermore,
physical effects are of an increasing impact and have to be considered
even at system level.
Languages, models, representations, and tools such as VHDL-AMS,
Verilog-AMS, SystemC-AMS, Modelica, Matlab/Simulink, Hybrid Automata
or even SysML are emerging to support such issues starting from
transistor level analog circuit up to system level design. The EAMS
Thematic Area aims at presenting latest research activities, design
experiences, and standardization issues related to these topics.
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UMES TA: UML and MDE for Embedded System Specification & Design
Chair: Pierre Boulet LIFL, Lille, France
[email protected]
Model driven methods, mostly based on the Unified Modeling Language,
increasingly support semi-formal methods for system level design of
complex embedded systems including highly programmable platforms and
heterogeneous Systems-on-Chip. Current design methods do not close the
gap from specification to (automatic) synthesis yet. UMES related
research topics in this field are Executable UML, model driven
development, model transformations, UML semantics, meta-modeling
(e.g. for SystemC and other System Description Languages or HDLs),
UML profiles (SysML, MARTE, UML for SoC, ...), formalization of UML
towards domain specific languages for simulation and synthesis. Other
welcomed topics are standardization work, modeling languages for real-
time and embedded systems, model driven techniques for performance
analysis, validation and verification, SDL, AADL, OCL, XMI and
practical design experiences with UML or model driven engineering
(MDE) approaches.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
Regular papers: provide comprehensive details on innovative and
complete research or applicative work with evidence of experimental
results. Regular papers may also include proposals for
standardization. Accepted regular papers will be presented with
slides. Presenters of regular papers will also be encouraged to
bring posters. Some regular paper submissions may be accepted as
short papers with poster presentation.
Short papers: authors are encouraged to outline work in progress,
industrial case studies, or user experiences with short papers.
Accepted short papers will be presented as posters in dedicated
sessions, allowing to present advances achieved since submission.
Format of paper: All papers should be formatted to fit the final
format of A4 double column, min. 2 cm left and right margins,
single-spaced, Times New Roman font of min. 10pt. Short papers
should not exceed 2 pages, and regular papers should not exceed
6 pages. All papers must include a short abstract, all required
figures, tables, and references.
Blind review: The submitted paper must not mention names and
affiliations of the authors.
Originality: Submitted papers are required to describe under
consideration for publication elsewhere.
Submission: www.ecsi.org/fdl
REQUIREMENTS FOR PRESENTATION
Authors of accepted papers will have to deliver the final version of
the papers including recommended changes from reviewers, a copyright
release form (which will be provided) and at least as many author
registrations at the Forum as there are presented papers.
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PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library, thereby
being indexed and available via IEEExplore. Accepted papers will be
also published in electronic version (USB) to be made available to
registered Forum participants. After the conference papers and
presentations will be published at the ECSI web page together with the
keynote presentations (if no confidentiality issues are pending) and
tutorial documents. In addition, the authors of the best regular
papers will be invited to prepare an extended manuscript for
publication in an edited book from Springer Science
+ Business Media publisher after the event.
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EMBEDDED TUTORIALS
Proposals for half-day (4 hours) embedded tutorials on specific topics
around any of the four workshops will be accepted depending on topic
relevance and evidence of a comprehensive agenda. A one page
description of the tutorial including title, presenters, contents, and
the relevant
track(s) should be sent to [email protected]. A maximum of three tutorial
authors is recommended. Accepted tutorials will get one free
registration to the Forum per tutorial.
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PANELS, SPECIAL SESSIONS, WORKING GROUPS, PROJECT MEETINGS Proposal
for special sessions (panels, working sessions, standardization or
user group meetings, etc.) around any of the four TA tracks are
invited and will be accepted depending on their relevance and interest
to the audience.
They will be embedded in regular workshops. A one page description
including title, participants, contents, and the relevant track(s)
should be sent to [email protected].
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DEMONSTRATIONS
Companies, universities or other organizations providing innovative
tools and environments for the topics described above will find in
FDL an opportunity to make demonstration of them to the attendees.
Proposals should go as soon as possible to [email protected].
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ORGANIZATION
General Chair
[email protected]
Secretariat
ECSI Office
[email protected]
Ph: +33 4 76 63 49 34
Fax: +33 4 76 42 87 87
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
List of FDL PC Members is presented at: www.ecsi.org/fdl
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STEERING COMMITTEE
Dominique Borrione
Pierre Boulet
Christoph Grimm
Sorin Huss
Jean Mermet
Adam Morawiec
Martin Radetzki
Wolfgang Rosenstiel
Kari Tiensyrja
Alain Vachoux
Eugenio Villar
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CO-SPONSOR CONTACTS
Victor Berman, Accellera
Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, Mentor
Fiona Turner, IET
Wolfgang Stronski, Cadence
Karl Schenk, Microswiss
Pierre Bricaud, Synopsys
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