Proceedings 13th International Symposium on System Synthesis

Abstract

On behalf of ISSS 2002 Steering and Technical Program committees, I would like to welcome you to Kyoto and to International Symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS). ISSS is a major international forum presenting emerging techniques for system-level design and synthesis of computing systems. Having begun as International Workshop on High-Level Synthesis in mid-80's, it attracts leading design automation professionals from around world.ISSS 2002 is 15th in this very successful series of symposia. This year technical sessions cover following topics: High Level and Architectural Synthesis Simulation and Verification Processor-Based System \Design Methodologies Based on Instruction Code Low Power Memory System Reconfigurable System Practical Experiences .The technical program for ISSS 2002 has been selected by a program committee, which includes experts from industry and academia form 14 different countries. 71 submitted papers, originating from 18 different countries underwent a very strict reviewing process. Each paper has been assigned to 5 reviewers and response from reviewers was very high, on average each paper received 4.37 reviews. I would like to thank all members of program committee and other reviewers for their excellent work. After multiple rounds of e-mail discussion, 24 submitted papers have been selected for regular presentations. Due to very high quality of submitted papers and pertinence of problems addressed, 14 additional papers have been accepted for short presentation.This year, we have also made efforts to invite two distinguished speakers. As keynote speech, Mr. Kouji Ohboshi (Corporate Advisor, ex-Chairman of NTT DoCoMo, Inc.) expresses suggestive views on driving force behind future system design. His title is Mobile, Broadband, Ubiquitous, and Information Renaissance. Dr. Francky Catthoor (IMEC) gives us an invited talk on the Software Washing Machine, which means a novel system design paradigm to deal with dynamic issues like multi-media and networking applications where tasks and complex data types are created and deleted at run-time based on non-deterministic events. His title is Managing dynamic concurrent tasks in embedded real-time multimedia systems.You will also not want to miss two panel sessions on SoC. One is titled Multiprocessor SoC which is organized by Dr. Ahmed Jerraya (TIMA) and Prof. Wayne Wolf (Princeton University) and other is titled Security on SoC which is organized by Prof. Hiroto Yasuura (Kyushu University) and Prof. Cathy Gebotys (University of Waterloo).This year Proceedings of Symposium have been published by ACM. For 2002, proceedings from ISSS 2002 will be included on SIGDA Compendium CD-ROM. ACM-SIGDA made CD-ROMs containing proceedings of ISSS 2002 available at symposium. They subsidized cost of productions of CD-ROMs as a benefit to professional community. They will also post proceedings on their website along with other notorious conferences. I would like to thank them for visibility they provide to ISSS. ISSS 2002 is cosponsored by ACM-SIGDA and IEEE Computer Society, supported by many Japanese foundations and companies, and in cooperation with EICE, IPSJ and IEEE Kansai Section in Japan. I would like to thank all of them for their strong support, and would like to record their names in proceeding.