LCTES 2022

23rd ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2022)

Part of the 43rd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2022) June 13-17, 2022

LCTES provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these areas are addressing many similar problems, but with different backgrounds and approaches. LCTES is intended to expose researchers and developers from either area to relevant work and interesting problems in the other area and provide a forum where they can interact.

Programming languages, compilers, and tools are important interfaces between embedded systems and emerging applications in the real world. Embedded systems are aggressively adapted for deep neural network applications, autonomous vehicles, robots, healthcare applications, etc. However, these emerging applications impose challenges that conflict with conventional design requirements and increase the complexity of embedded system designs. Furthermore, they exploit new hardware paradigms to scale up multicores (including GPUs and FPGAs) and distributed systems built from many cores. Therefore, programming languages, compilers, and tools are becoming more important to address these issues such as productivity, validation, verification, maintainability, safety, and reliability for meeting both performance goals and resource constraints.

Programming language challenges, including:

Domain-specific languages
Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging architectures
Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded systems
Capabilities for specification, composition, and construction of embedded systems
Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, verifiability, and security
Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and memory management
Compiler challenges, including:

Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and compilers
Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split compilation
Support for enhanced programmer productivity
Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt handling
Optimization for low power/energy, code/data size, and real-time performance
Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and auto-tuning
Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including:

• Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces
• Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable architectures
• System integration and testing
• Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning
• Run-time system support for embedded systems
• Design space exploration tools
• Support for system security and system-level reliability
• Approaches for cross-layer system optimization

Theory and foundations of embedded systems, including:

• Predictability of resource behavior: energy, space, time
• Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and distributed systems
• Formal foundations of model-based design as the basis for code generation, analysis, and verification
• Mathematical foundations for embedded systems
• Models of computations for embedded applications

Novel embedded architectures, including:

• Design and implementation of novel architectures
• Workload analysis and performance evaluation
• Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, compiler techniques, debugging tools

Architectural features to improve power/energy, code/data size, and predictability
Mobile systems and IoT, including:

• Operating systems for mobile and IoT devices
• Compiler and software tools for mobile and IoT systems
• Energy management for mobile and IoT devices
• Memory and IO techniques for mobile and IoT devices