Welcome to ASAP 2010
The 21st IEEE International Conference on
Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors. This year's
event takes place in Rennes, capital of Brittany in France.
The history of the event traces back to the International Workshop on
Systolic Arrays, organized in 1986 in Oxford, UK. It later developed
into the International Conference on Application Specific Array
Processors. With its current title, it was organized for the first time
in Chicago, USA in 1996. Since then it has alternated between Europe and
North-America.
The conference will cover the theory and practice of
application-specific systems, architectures and processors. Areas for
application-specific computing are many and varied. Some sample
application areas include information systems, signal and image
processing, multimedia systems, communication, high-speed networks,
sensor networks, compression, graphics, cryptography, and many areas
of computational science. Aspects of application-specific computing that
are of interest include, but are not limited to:
Application-specific systems: network computing, special-purpose
systems, performance evaluation, design languages, compilers, operating
systems, nanocomputing systems and applications, hardware/software
integration and rapid prototyping.
Application-specific architectures: special-purpose designs, design
methodology, CAD tools, fault tolerance, specifications and interfaces,
networks-on-a-chip, hardware/software co-design, processor arrays, SoC,
superscalar, multithreaded, VLIW and EPIC architectures.
Application-specific processors: digital signal processing, computer
arithmetic, reconfigurable/custom computing, implementation
methodologies, new technologies, fine-grain parallelism, FPGAs,low-power
designs and asynchronous hardware.
We especially encourage submissions in the following areas:
- Bioinformatics and computational biology —
life sciences present a host of interesting problems
that can benefit from application-specific solutions.
- Architecturally diverse systems —
systems that use varied computing
resources such as FPGAs, GPUs, Cell processors, etc.
- Tools and Compilations Methods for Reconfigurable Computing.
The conference venue in 2010 is Rennes in France, which is only one
hour from the sea-side and the Mont Saint-Michel, one of the seven
world marvel.
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