Proceedings of the seventh IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis

On behalf of the Program Committee, we would like to welcome you to the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software-Codesign and System Synthesis. CODES-ISSS is the premier conference for system-level synthesis and design of embedded systems. We have arranged a rigorous review process in order to select 33 papers among 117 submissions (yielding an acceptance rate of 28%). Each paper had 5.1 reviews, on average. Papers were grouped by topic into similar-sized clusters, with each receiving the attention of a subcommittee composed of approximately 11 committee members. The Program Committee then met in person to debate the merits of the submitted papers. Program Committee members were asked to select the most novel and highest quality work. The Program Committee chairs refrained from submitting papers and Program Committee members were excluded from discussing papers for which they had conflicts of interest. Interaction between presenters and other conference attendees is extremely important in this conference. To encourage this we have organized poster sessions during the last 30 minutes of every session. This will give the audience opportunities to discuss work in detail with those presenting it. In addition to 11 regular sessions, we have also organized five special sessions, one of which was planned in collaboration with the CASES Program Committee. These special sessions cover a wide range of topics including memory technologies, multiprocessor systems-on-chip, microfluidic biochips, and dependable embedded systems. CODES-ISSS is part of the growing Embedded Systems Week event, which brings together numerous embedded systems conferences and workshops. CODES-ISSS is complemented by two other flagship sister conferences: CASES and EMSOFT. Registrants to Embedded Systems Week may attend sessions in any of the three conferences. The technical programs of the three conferences, including keynotes, special sessions, panels, tutorials and workshops, have been planned to complement each other by avoiding major overlaps. The technical quality of the CODES-ISSS program is a direct result of the dedicated efforts of the authors who submitted their work to the conference, Steering Committee, Organizing Committee, Program Committee, and numerous reviewers who contributed their time and expertise. We are grateful to everybody who helped to make CODES-ISSS a success. We would also like to thank our sponsoring societies: ACM SIGBED, SIGDA, SIGMICRO, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS), IEEE Computer Society (CS), and IEEE Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). This year, the CODES-ISSS is held in Taipei. We hope the conference and its proceedings prove useful to you, and that you enjoy attending.