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Workshop on Software Engineering for Embedded Systems
[ http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~roel/SE4ES/DATE08/ ]

March 14, 2008
Munchen, Germany
Co-located with DATE'08, the conference on Design, Automation and Test
in Europe (http://www.date-conference.com)

Organized by Maja D'Hondt, Rudy Lauwereins, Diederik Verkest, Roel Wuyts
IMEC, Belgium

New challenges arise in embedded software development in addition to
the traditional ones of power efficiency, memory usage and execution
time. Productivity, and thus time to market, become serious issues due
to changes at the application level and new developments at the
hardware level, for example:

• several interactive or dynamic applications, often from different vendors, have to be mapped to multi- or even many-core processor architectures
• distributed applications have to run on a number of devices such as regular PCs, nomadic battery-operated consumer devices, and/or programmable sensors
• device mobility and hardware failure, e.g. due to sub 32 nm technology, make unreliability the rule rather than the exception

In traditional software engineering the application-level problems are
far from new. The central question of the workshop is how we can adapt
and transfer the knowledge in software engineering to address these
issues in embedded systems. Anyone who is concerned with embedded
software development for the mobile, consumer, automotive, healthcare,
or any other domain can attend. We welcome both industrial and
academic people, with backgrounds in software and/or hardware.

PROGRAM:

The workshop program consists of high-profile presentations and is
concluded by a panel discussion moderated by Christoph Hammerschmidt
from EETimes. The presentations are:

"Software Development Evolution at Philips Healthcare"
Jan Willem van den Beukel, Manager Software Development, Philips
Medical, NL

"System Integration in the Connected Consumer Domain"
Ben Pronk, System Architect - Business Line Digital Television
Systems, NXP Semiconductors, NL

"The Mobile Fight: Software versus Power"
Kimmo Kuusilinna, Principal Member of Research Staff, Nokia Research
Center, FI

"Building Complex Embedded Software - Lessons Learned from Embedded
Smalltalk and Java"
Brian Barry, CEO, Bedarra Research Labs, CA

"Smart Environments: a Programming Model to Make them Reality"
Harmke de Groot, Program Manager, European Microsoft Innovation
Center, DE

"Liquid Metal: Blurring the Boundary between Software and Hardware for
Versatile Parallel Computing"
Rodric Rabbah, Researcher
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, US

"Seven Mistakes in Embedded Software for Parallel Platforms (and how
to avoid them)"
Pierre Paulin, Director SoC Platform Automation, STMicroelectronics, CA