Eighth MEDEA Workshop

It is our pleasure to welcome you to this special section of Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC), presenting selected papers from the 2007 edition of Medea Workshop. This workshop, held in conjunction with the PACT conference since 2000, has moved its topics of interest from decoupled architectures to memory hierarchy arguments, with emphasis on embedded and application-specific CMP systems.