CDES'07- The 2007 International Conference on Computer Design

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Processor and co-processor design
• Cache and memory systems
• Reliable architectures
• Computer systems design and applications
• VLSI systems design and scaling techniques
• ASIC design and architectures
• Large-scale systems
• Logic and circuit design
• Arithmetic circuits
• Memory circuits
• Microarchitectures
• Power-efficient computer design and power management
• High-performance input/output systems and design
• Parallel/multi-processor computer architectures
• Innovative hardware/software architectures
• Scheduling techniques
• Prefetching techniques
• Architecture simulation systems
• Branch prediction
• Superscalar and dataflow design
• Interconnect and interface design
• Storage subsystem architectures
• Architectures for secure computing
• Performance analysis and evaluation
• Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core systems and processors
• Real-time architectures
• Benchmarking and measurements
• Quantum computing
• Novel design and methodologies
• System-on-a-chip: design and methodology
• Complexity issues
• High-level design methodologies
• Support of operating systems and languages
• Interaction between compilers and computer architectures
• Reusable architectures
• Synthesis
• Pipelining
• Mixed-signal design and analysis
• Electrical/packaging designs and co-designs
• FPGA-based design
• Impact of novel technologies on computer architecture
• Case studies
• Emerging technologies
• Topics in Nanotechnology - all areas of nanotechnology are of great interest (irrespective of their direct relevance to computer design), including:
  - Integration of high-performance computing in nanotechnology
  - Bio-inspired and nano-scale integrated computing
  - Miniaturization of science
  - Material science
  - Molecular machines
  - Nanodevices and nanostructures
  - Biomolecular machinery
  - Nanotubes
  - Nanomaterials
  - Nanomedicine
  - Nanobiotechnology
  - Scanning probes
  - Nanoelectronics
  - Nanosensors
  - Self-assembly
  - Computational chemistry
  - Nanoscale structures and nanosystems
  - Biomedical engineering and nanotechnology
  - Supramolecular chemistry and technology
  - Supercomputing and nanotechnology
  - Nanotech and space exploration
  - Nanotoxicology
  - Nanotechnology and bioinformatics
  - Nanotechnology challenges
  - Social impacts of nanotechnology
  - Case studies and emerging applications
• Topics in Real-Time Computing and Systems:
  - Architectures
  - Hardware software co-design
  - System-on-chip
  - Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
  - Quality of service and scheduling
  - Software engineering for real-time computing and systems
  - System design and analysis (probabilistic analysis, quality of service support, validation technologies, survivability and security, reliability issues, ...)
  - Infrastructure and hardware (embedded devices, resource constrained methods, time synchronization, ...)
  - Software technologies (real-time operating systems, middleware and distributed technologies, compiler support, component-based technologies, ...)
  - Fault-tolerance
  - Embedded systems and ubiquitous computing
  - Real-time databases
  - Programming languages and run-time systems
  - Real-time network connection scheduling
  - Feed-back scheduling
  - Multiprocessor scheduling
  - Resource management
  - Scheduling algorithms and analysis
  - Real-time kernel support
  - Modeling and synthesis techniques
  - Real-time data-flow applications/computing
  - Real-time control and sensing
  - Real-time and embedded distributed algorithms and systems
  - Simulation of real-time systems
  - Multimedia and QoS support
  - Real-time middleware systems
  - Object oriented methods for real-time systems
  - Knowledge-based real-time systems
  - Algorithms and applications (telecommunications, aerospace, entertainment, consumer electronics, ...)
  - Case studies