The 12th DATE conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. It puts strong emphasis on ICs/SoCs, reconfigurable hardware and embedded systems, including embedded software.

Topic Area for Submissions

  - real-time programming languages and software;
  - formal models for real-time systems;
  - software performance analysis;
  - worst case execution time analysis;
  - scheduling and software estimation;
  - real-time system optimization;
  - verification;
  - tools and design methods;
  - adaptive real-time systems;
  - dependable systems;
  - software for safety critical systems;
  - software architectures for sensor networks and networked control
    applications;
  - network control and QoS for embedded applications.

Submission Instructions

Submissions should not exceed 6 pages in length for oral presentation papers and 4 pages in length for interactive presentation (IP) papers, and should be formatted as close as possible to the final format: A4 or letter sheets, double column, single spaced, Times or equivalent font of minimum 10pt (templates are available for your convenience). To permit blind review, submissions should not include the author names. Any submission not in line with the above rules will be discarded.

Submission deadline:          September 7, 2008
Notification of acceptance:  November 17, 2008
Final version due:               December 12, 2008

Program Committee

 Petru Eles, Linkoping University, Sweden
 Luis Almeida,Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Hakan Aydin, George Mason University, USA
 Alain Girault, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
 Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel University, USA
 Giuseppe Lipari, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
 Steve Liu, Texas A&M University, USA
 Sang Lyul Min, Seoul National University, Korea
 Nicolas Navet, INRIA/RTaW, France
 Claudio Pinello, Cadence Research Laboratories, USA
 Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Sponsored by the European Design and Automation Association, the EDA
Consortium, the IEEE Computer Society. (TTTC), (CEDA), ECSI, RAS
and ACM SIGDA.