Addressing instruction fetch bottlenecks by using an instruction register file

摘要

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the ACM 2007 Conference on Languages Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'07) on behalf of its organizational committees. The aim of LCTES is to provide a premier forum for sharing the latest significant research results on embedded systems, with an emphasis on programming languages, compilers, tools, and novel architectures. We hope that you will find this year's program interesting and thought-provoking and that the conference will once again provide you with a good opportunity to interact with researchers and practitioners from around the world. >In response to our call for papers, 76 papers were submitted from academic and industrial institutions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and North and South Americas. All submissions were reviewed through a "double-blind" process, in which the authors remained anonymous (except to the Program Chair) until the acceptance decisions were made by the program committee. Papers submitted by members of the program committee were subjected to the same review process. Neither the program Chair nor the general Chair submitted any papers. >Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least three committee members, with the help from external expert reviewers in some cases. Over 93% of the submitted papers were each reviewed by four to six committee members. The program committee convened on the 25th of March in Chicago for an all-day meeting to reach consensus on the program. Members with a potential conflict of interest on a paper neither reviewed nor participated in the discussion of the paper. Anyone from the same institution of a coauthor or, in the past three years, having published a paper with him or her is considered as having a conflict of interest on that submission. The program chair had a conflict of interest on one of the submissions. The review and discussion of that paper was moderated by Professor Jack Davidson of University of Virginia without any involvement of the Program Chair. >At the end of the meeting, the program committee selected 21 high quality papers for the regular program, representing roughly a 28% acceptance rate. The committee also identified nine additional papers and invited their authors to the poster session. We are pleased that the poster authors have an opportunity to present a work-in-progress summary in a special session. >The composition of the program before you covers a range of important issues in embedded systems, including software reliability, low-power computing, embedded Java, real-time systems, multi-core systems, VLIW for DSP/stream applications, compiler analysis, and the entire memory hierarchy. We thank the program committee and the external reviewers for their diligent review effort and to all the authors who submitted their most recent fine work to this conference.