CAL Workshop

The CAL Workshop

The co-located CAL Workshop will be held immediately after the SiPS conference in the conference hotel on Friday October 10 from 2pm to 4pm.

Signal processing algorithms become increasingly complex and the algorithm architecture adaptation and design processes cannot any longer rely only on the intuition of the designers to build efficient systems. Concurrency and parallelism are very important aspects of embedded system design as we enter in the multicore era. Specific tools and methods are needed to cope with the increasing complexity of algorithms and the increasing availability of concurrency in computing platforms.

Dataflow models expose the intrinsic concurrency of applications by structuring them into networks of loosely coupled actors which operate and communicate asynchronously. The CAL actor language, which embodies this model, has been used extensively as the foundation of MPEG’s “Reconfigurable Video Coding” (RVC) effort and other projects, and it is supported by various tools, including a high-level simulator, as well as software and hardware code generators. CAL is currently the focus of a number of research efforts in various academic and industrial institutions.

This meeting is intended as a forum to discuss the current status of the work and future plans. Subject to space limitations, anyone interested in research on dataflow programming using CAL is invited join.

Program

There will be a number of short presentations (around 15min), followed by an open discussion.

Johan Eker, Jörn W. Janneck

Whence and whither

Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Experimenting with Dataflow Scheduling Techniques using DIF

Marco Mattavelli

Reconfigurable Video Coding: Status and beyond

Jörn W. Janneck

Organizing the community: a proposal

 

List of attendees (Max. 20 attendees):

·  Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya (University of Maryland – USA)

·  Jani Boutellier (Oulu University – Finland)

·  Johan Eker (Ericsson – Sweden)

·  Ruirui Gu (University of Maryland – USA)

·  Jörn W. Janneck (Xilinx – USA)

·  Christophe Jego (Lab-STICC – France)

·  Gwo Giun (Chris) Lee (National Cheng Kung University – Taiwan)

·  Sébastien Lafond (Åbo Akademi University – Finland)

·  Christophe Lucarz (EPF Lausanne – Switzerland)

·  Marco Mattavelli (EPF Lausanne – Switzerland)

·  John McAllister (The Queen's University of Belfast – Ireland)

·  Jonathan Piat (IETR/INSA – France)

·  Carl von Platen (Ericsson – Sweden)

·  Mickaël Raulet (IETR/INSA – France)

·  Roger Woods (The Queen's University of Belfast – Ireland)