Application-specific processors and devices: Network processors, real-time processor, media and signal processors, application specific hardware accelerators, reconfigurable processors, low power embedded processors, bio/fluidic processors, Bluetooth, hand-held devices
Industrial practices and benchmark suites: System design, processor design, software, tools, case studies, trends, emerging technologies, experience maintaining benchmark suites, representation, interchange format, tools, copyrights, maintenance, metrics, Curriculum issues, teaching tools and methods, New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., pervasive or ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools) and new principle (e.g., embedded Engineering).
