16th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems, M-SCOPES 2013, Proceedings

Welcome to Sankt Goar and the M-SCOPES workshop. After having been co-located for five years, the workshop on Mapping of Applications to MPSoCs (Map2MPSoC) and the workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES) have merged into M-SCOPES. This year we are presenting a workshop program that features many interesting talks on all aspects related to the design of modern embedded systems. I hope that you will find our program interesting, stimulating and exciting. The influence of embedded systems is constantly growing. Increasingly powerful and versatile devices are developed and put on the market at a fast pace. Their functionality and number of features is increasing, and so are the constraints on the systems concerning size, performance, energy dissipation and timing predictability. To meet all these constraints, multi-processor systems on a chip (MPSoCs) are becoming popular in embedded systems. In order to meet the performance and energy constraints of embedded applications, heterogeneous architectures incorporating functional units optimized for specific functions are commonly employed. This technological trend has dramatic consequences on the parallelization, mapping, compiler and design technology used to develop these systems. The M-SCOPES workshop focuses on the software generation process for these modern embedded systems. Topics of interest include all aspects of the compilation and mapping process of embedded single and multi-processor systems