Proceedings of the 2014 international symposium on Low power electronics and design

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design -- ISLPED'14, in the beautiful city of La Jolla, CA, USA. The mission of our symposium is to provide education and technical enrichment for professionals in the area of low power electronics and design and promote advancement of the state-of-the-art in the same area. It provides a forum for technical discussions and a platform for examining new ideas and research topics. This year, the call for papers attracted 184 submissions from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North & South America. The Technical Program Committee (TPC), consisting of 78 experts from industry and academia, accepted a total of 63 papers divided into 43 for full-length presentations and 20 for poster presentations. The accepted papers cover a variety of low-power topics in technologies, circuits, logic & architecture, CAD Tools & methodologies, systems & platforms, and software and applications. We are very thankful to the authors for contributing to ISLEPD'14. We are also grateful to our TPC members for volunteering their valuable time and effort in reviewing the papers, attending the in-person review meeting, and providing feedback to the authors. In addition to the above accepted papers, this year's program features: Three Keynote Speeches on "Low Power Design Techniques in Mobile Processes" by Dr. Karim Arabi, VP Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.; "Accelerator-Rich Architectures --- From Single-chip to Datacenters" by Prof. Jason Cong, Chancellor's Professor at the Computer Science Dept., UCLA, and "The New (System) Balance of Power and Opportunities for Optimizations" by Dr. Partha Ranganathan, Principal Engineer, Google.Industry Focus Session on the Challenges of Low Power Analog Circuits, Exploiting FD-SOI for Energy Efficient SoCs, and Using Embedded STT-MRAM for Mobile Applications.Four Embedded Invited Papers on Emerging Interconnect Technologies, Low Power Processor Design, Leakage Mitigation in Smartphone SoCs, and Powering the Internet of Things.Embedded Tutorial by industry DA experts on "Failing to Fail - Achieving Success in Advanced Low Power Design using UPF". We hope the above talks will complement our main program by providing you with an in-depth understanding of the low-power state-of-the-art as well as gives you valuable insights into future trends. Finally, we hope that you will find the overall program interesting and thought-provoking and that the symposium will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.