LCTES 2016
co-located with PLDI 2016

LCTES provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these areas are addressing many similar problems, but with different backgrounds and approaches. LCTES is intended to expose researchers and developers from either area to relevant work and interesting problems in the other area and provide a forum where they can interact.

Dates
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Mon 13 Jun

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08:50 - 09:00
Opening RemarksLCTES at Sierra Madre North
08:50
10m
Day opening
Opening Remarks
LCTES

09:00 - 10:00
LCTES Keynote #1LCTES at Sierra Madre North
Chair(s): Tei-Wei Kuo Academia Sinica, Taiwan
09:00
60m
Talk
Smart Embedded Computing through Self-Awareness
LCTES
File Attached
10:30 - 12:00
Session 1: Dynamic Translation and Iterative CompilationLCTES at Sierra Madre North
Chair(s): Alastair Reid
10:30
30m
Talk
Efficient Asynchronous Interrupt Handling in a Full-System Instruction Set Simulator
LCTES
Tom Spink University of Edinburgh, Harry Wagstaff , Björn Franke University of Edinburgh
11:00
30m
Talk
Code Cache Management in Managed Language VMs to Reduce Memory Consumption for Embedded Systems
LCTES
Forrest Robinson University of Kansas, USA, Michael Jantz University of Tennessee, USA, Prasad Kulkarni University of Kansas
11:30
30m
Talk
A Graph-Based Iterative Compiler Pass Selection and Phase Ordering Approach
LCTES
Ricardo Nobre FEUP, Universidade do Porto, João M. P. Cardoso University of Porto, Portugal, Luiz G. A. Martins
15:30 - 17:00
Session 3: Presentations of PostersLCTES at Sierra Madre North
Chair(s): Michael Jantz University of Tennessee, USA
15:30
10m
Talk
The LARA-based Compiler Toolsuite
LCTES
Tiago Carvalho University of Porto, João Bispo FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Pedro Pinto , Luís Reis , Ricardo Nobre FEUP, Universidade do Porto, João M. P. Cardoso University of Porto, Portugal
15:40
10m
Talk
Energy-Saving Designs for Mobile Devices with Non-Volatile Memory
LCTES
Che-Wei Chang Chang Gung University, Taiwan
15:50
10m
Talk
Pseudo-preemptive Threads for Reliable and Maintainable Multitasking Software
LCTES
Benjamin Ylvisaker Colorado College
16:00
10m
Talk
On Compiling MATLAB to C: Recent Achievements, Challenges and Open Issues
LCTES
Luís Reis , João Bispo FEUP, Universidade do Porto, João M. P. Cardoso University of Porto, Portugal
16:10
10m
Talk
The Scheduling of Parallel Tasks in Heterogeneous Real-Time Systems
LCTES
16:20
10m
Talk
Improving Energy-Bound Application Effectiveness through Redundancy and Approximation
LCTES
Liu Liu Rutgers University, Timothy Yong Rutgers University, Jonathan Risinger Rutgers University, Sibren Isaacman Loyola University Maryland, Abhishek Bhattacharjee Rutgers University, Uli Kremer Rutgers University, USA
16:30
10m
Talk
Compiling with the Regionalized Value State Dependence Graph
LCTES
Nico Reissmann Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Helge Bahmann , Magnus Jahre Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Tue 14 Jun

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09:00 - 10:00
Keynote #2LCTES at Sierra Madre North
Chair(s): David B. Whalley
09:00
60m
Talk
Achieving Yield, Density and Performance Effective DRAM
LCTES
Bruce Childers University of Pittsburgh
10:30 - 12:00
Session 4: Worst-Case Analysis and Error HandlingLCTES at Sierra Madre North
Chair(s): João M. P. Cardoso University of Porto, Portugal
10:30
30m
Talk
Symbolic Execution for Memory Consumption Analysis
LCTES
Duc-Hiep Chu National University of Singapore, Joxan Jaffar National University of Singapore, Rasool Maghareh
11:00
30m
Talk
TIC: A Scalable Model Checking Based Approach to WCET Estimation
LCTES
Ravindra Metta Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Martin Becker TU Munich, Prasad Bokil , R. Venkatesh , Samarjit Chakraborty
11:30
30m
Talk
Compensate or Ignore? Meeting control robustness requirements through adaptive Soft-Error Handling
LCTES
15:30 - 17:00
Session 6: Poster SessionLCTES at Sierra Madre North

Accepted Papers

Title
A Graph-Based Iterative Compiler Pass Selection and Phase Ordering Approach
LCTES
A Machine Learning Approach to Mapping Streaming Workloads to Dynamic Multicore Processors
LCTES
Code Cache Management in Managed Language VMs to Reduce Memory Consumption for Embedded Systems
LCTES
Compensate or Ignore? Meeting control robustness requirements through adaptive Soft-Error Handling
LCTES
Compiling a Gesture Recognition Application for a Low-Power Spatial Architecture
LCTES
Compiling with the Regionalized Value State Dependence Graph
LCTES
Efficient Asynchronous Interrupt Handling in a Full-System Instruction Set Simulator
LCTES
Energy-Saving Designs for Mobile Devices with Non-Volatile Memory
LCTES
Generalized Cache Tiling for Dataflow Programs
LCTES
Improving Energy-Bound Application Effectiveness through Redundancy and Approximation
LCTES
Loop-Oriented Array- and Field-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Automatic SIMD Vectorization
LCTES
On Compiling MATLAB to C: Recent Achievements, Challenges and Open Issues
LCTES
Opportunity for Compute Partitioning in Pursuit of Energy-Efficient Systems
LCTES
Pseudo-preemptive Threads for Reliable and Maintainable Multitasking Software
LCTES
Smart Embedded Computing through Self-Awareness
LCTES
File Attached
Symbolic Execution for Memory Consumption Analysis
LCTES
The LARA-based Compiler Toolsuite
LCTES
The Scheduling of Parallel Tasks in Heterogeneous Real-Time Systems
LCTES
TIC: A Scalable Model Checking Based Approach to WCET Estimation
LCTES
Translation Validation of Loop and Arithmetic Transformations in the Presence of Recurrences
LCTES

Call for Papers

Embedded system design faces many challenges both with respect to functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, many of which are conflicting. They are found in areas such as design and developer productivity, verification, validation, maintainability, and meeting performance goals and resource constraints. Novel design-time and run-time approaches are needed to meet the demand of emerging applications and to exploit new hardware paradigms, and in particular to scale up to multicores (including GPUs and FPGAs) and distributed systems built from multicores.

LCTES 2016 solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, theory, and architectures that help in overcoming these challenges. Research papers on innovative techniques are welcome, as well as experience papers on insights obtained by experimenting with real-world systems and applications.

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in embedded systems:

  • Programming language challenges, including:
    • Domain-specific languages
    • Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging architectures
    • Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded systems
    • Language capabilities for specification, composition, and construction of embedded systems
    • Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, verifiability, and security
    • Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and memory management
  • Compiler challenges, including:
    • Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and compilers
    • Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split compilation
    • Support for enhanced programmer productivity
    • Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt handling
    • Optimization for low power/energy, code and data size, and best-effort and real-time performance
    • Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and auto-tuning
  • Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including:
    • Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces
    • Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable architectures
    • System integration and testing
    • Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning
    • Run-time system support for embedded systems
    • Design space exploration tools
    • Support for system security and system-level reliability
    • Approaches for cross-layer system optimization
  • Theory and foundations of embedded systems, including:
    • Predictability of resource behaviour: energy, space, time
    • Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and distributed systems
    • Formal foundations of model-based design as basis for code generation, analysis, and verification
    • Mathematical foundations for embedded systems
    • Models of computations for embedded applications
  • Novel embedded architectures, including:
    • Design and implementation of novel architectures
    • Workload analysis and performance evaluation
    • Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, compiler techniques, debugging tools
    • Achitectural features to improve power/energy, code/data size, and predictability
  • Empirical studies and their reproduction, and confirmation

Call for Posters

This session provides an opportunity for researchers attending LCTES 2016 to present and discuss their research in a more informal setting. This event will feature concurrent short presentations by participants organized in poster formats. Each presenter will be allowed a 36" x 36" space on a panel for their presentation. LCTES 2016 attendees and people attending other events at the conference site on June 13-14, will be able to wander among the posters and talk to the authors of the posters about their research.

In addition, one presenter of each poster will be given a 10 minute slot during one of the LCTES conference sessions to present slides about their research.

Therefore, participating at the poster session will allow one to present her/his research, get feedback by interacting with other participants, and witness an excellent collection of talks.

If you wish to present a poster display and give a 10 minute slide presentation of your research, then you should send the title of the poster, author names, and affiliations to Che-Wei Chang, chewei@mail.cgu.edu.tw, who will send a confirmation message once he receives this information. The deadline for applying for the poster session is May 6, 2016. Please note that the presenter of the poster will need to be registered for LCTES. If there are too many applicants for the poster session, then the applicants who applied first will be selected. For more information, please contact the LCTES PC Chair David Whalley, whalley@cs.fsu.edu.

Authors of accepted papers will have received an author kit from the publisher. Here are the key highlights:

  • Paper must be submitted in printable PDF format.
  • Please use this style to format your paper, with the pldi-cameraready option: PLDI 2016 style file.
  • Text should be either in 9pt or 10pt font, but consistent for the entire paper.
  • Papers can be 10 pages long in US letter format, all inclusive. Authors may purchase two additional pages @ $100/page.
  • Each reference must specify all authors (no et al.).
  • Proceedings may appear in the ACM digital library as early as May 30, 2016.