Confirmed Special Sessions

Topic: Enabling Advanced Spacecraft Capabilities through Adaptive Hardware Architecture

Chairs: Michael Newell, JPL & Didier Keymeulen, JPL

The purpose of this special session is to bring together leading researchers and technologists from the reconfigurable architectures and high performance computing communities to exchange new ideas and experiences with adaptive hardware and systems communities. The session will focus on the current developments of adaptive reconfigurable hardware platforms especially dedicated to increase performance and capabilities of computer systems for spacecraft control data handling and instrument data processing. We are specifically interested in computing systems that offer order of magnitude increase in capabilities over the traditional single processing system paradigm.

Topic: Adaptive, Reconfigurable and Self-aware Computing Architectures

Chair: Giovanni Beltrame, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands

Multi-core processors are becoming a common design, and their design complexity in hardware and software is increasing at an alarming rate. One approach to simplify the programmer's task is to let the hardware and software monitor and optimize themselves to achieve the design goals. Interest in such capabilities has been increasing recently and these systems have been called adaptive, self-tuning, self-optimizing or autonomic. These systems are an uncharted land for the designer, and new techniques and architectures both in hardware and software are required to design and manufacture self-optimizing devices. This special session aims at collecting some of the most recent works in this new field, concerning both software and hardware approaches.

Topic: Adaptive Techniques for Security and Trust in Hardware Design

Chair: Qu Gang, University of Maryland, USA

The focus of this special session is on all aspects of security and trust related to hardware and hardware design. From enabler to enhancer and enforcer, hardware plays a more and more important role in information security. With the increase of hardware design complexity and the use of third party IP, hardware and its design process need to be protected, secure, and trustworthy. The focus of this special session is on all aspects of security and trust related to hardware systems and hardware design, with particular interests in adaptive techniques and adaptive hardware systems.

Topics include but are not restricted to:

• Application Specific Hardware for Security
• Hardware Design Data Security
• Hardware Design to Enhance Security and Privacy
• Information Hiding in VLSI Design
• Lessons Learned in Hardware Security and Trust
• Metrics for Trusted Hardware
• Silicon Physical Unclonable Functions
• Trusted Integrated Circuit Design
• VLSI Design Intellectual Property Protection