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		Preliminary Call for Papers
       19th IEEE International Conference on
Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP)
	  July 2-4, 2008 Leuven, Belgium
           http://www.asap-conference.org

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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 and cryptography.

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.


Information for authors:

A PDF of the complete paper should be submitted via the conference web site at http://www.asap-conference.org. 
Papers must be no more than 6 pages, and should follow the formatting guidelines at 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf. However, the first submission must be 
anonymous, i.e. the names and affiliations of the authors must be omitted.  Submissions which identify the 
authors or affiliations will not be considered. Only original research contributions will be considered. 
Submissions which substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere, or have 
submitted in parallel to any other conferences or workshops that have proceedings, will be instantly rejected. 
For further information about the conference and paper formatting instructions,  please see the conference web page.



Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts & papers: 27 Feb 2008
Notification of acceptance: 25 April 2008
Deadline for submission of final paper: 7 May 2008


Organizing Committee:
General Chair 		Diederik Verkest,  IMEC, Belgium

Program Co-Chair 	Steve Wilton, University of British Columbia, Canada
Program Co-Chair 	Ingrid Verbauwhede, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

Local Arrangements 	Fred Loosens, IMEC, Belgium
Publicity 		Murali Jayapala, IMEC, Belgium
Web Management 		Praveen Raghavan, IMEC, Belgium
Proceedings 		Andy Lambrechts, IMEC, Belgium
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