MESSAGE FROM VICE CHANCELLOR. In The Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Assalamualaikum. Warahmatullahi Taala. Wabarakatuh and.
MESSAGE FROM VICE CHANCELLOR In The Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Taala Wabarakatuh Blessings.
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I am most grateful to Allah, the most gracious and most merciful, for His blessings in giving us this precious opportunity to gather at this memorable event. The 1st International Conference on Electronic Design (ICED 2008) with the theme: "Embedded System Applications" takes an in-depth look at the many issues raised by electronic technology today, the obstacles and opportunities created by the new products, services and applications. This conference is a step towards achieving our vision in becoming a world-class academic and research institution in order to produce human capital with first class mentality. Research in embedded systems is exciting as it comprise of traditional research areas in computer science such as computer architecture, compiler, operating system, network, and software engineering. This conference will be a good starting point for UniMAP and international universities to interchange knowledge and skills in the area of Embedded Systems Applications. We are looking forward to find new solutions in this area and forecast future trends in order to realize Malaysia's aspiration and to contribute to global needs. It is a great pleasure to welcome all delegates and participants to this conference, coming from near and afar. A warm "Selamat Datang" I bid to all of you. Penang needs little introduction for visitors heading to Malaysia, having long been known as one of Southeast Asia's finest destinations. I hope you will enjoy Penang's outstanding beaches and exotic sights. I would like to congratulate the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) for their Gommitment and superb drive in organizing this conference. I am very certain that this occasion will be able to provide a platform towards strengthening our relationships in knowledge sharing while at the same time provide the necessary thrust in joint research collaborations and product commercialization within the research society. It is my aspiration that this conference will be a foundation for the growth of new ideas towards a better tomorrow. Last but not least, I would also like to thank all the conference industry sponsors. With your continued support and interest in us, I am sure that the quest of making UniMAP a top class university is not going to be impossible to achieve. Thank you. Wassalam.
Brigedier Jeneral Prof. Dato' Dr Kamarudin Hussin Vice Chancellor, UniMAP
MESSAGE FROM DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLOR (RESEARCH AND INNOVATION)
Bismillahir-rahmanir-rahim. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and salam sejahtera. I am delighted that the School of Computer and Communication is organizing an International Conference on Electronic Design (ICED2008) in Penang, Malaysia, from 1-3 December, 2008. We at UniMAP aspire very strongly to expand our research and innovation horizon, especially in the niche areas of Electronics, Computer and Communication Engineering disciplines. Research and development in VLSI and Embedded System Designs is the driving force behind the IT and telecommunication industry and is helping to change the quality of life of mankind. That this conference is addressing some of the challenges and solutions in this vast field is heartening. I understand that the conference is filled with lots of expert key note speeches, tutorials, hundreds of research paper presentations and invited talks. This will definitely go a long way in enriching the knowledge of the participants in general and UniMAP faculty in particular, especially those in the field of Embedded Systems. I am extremely happy that many international experts and delegates are attending the conference to present their papers and also deliver key notes and invited talks. Such a huge conference cannot be organized without the whole-hearted commitment and involvement of many people, be it faculty or students or sponsors. I admire their commitment and congratulate them on the success of the conference. I also profusely thank all the sponsors for their effort to encourage academic research by way of liberal sponsorships. We at UniMAP hope to further sharpen our research skills by organizing more of such international conferences in future. I sincerely hope that this conference (ICED2008) will facilitate the establishment of international joint research programs and become a forum for the exchange of research ideas. I wish the conference a grand success.
Prof. Dr. Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), UniMAP
MESSAGE FROM CONFERENCE ADVISOR
Bismillahir-rahmanir-rahim Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and salam sejahtera. It is with great pleasure that I extend a warm welcome to International and local experts, Embedded System Researchers and Engineers to Penang, Malaysia to take part in the First International Conference on Electronic Design (ICED 2008) with Embedded System Applications as its main theme. I am truly proud that the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, has managed to organize such an important conference in the niche area of embedded systems, which is attracting academic and industrial participation, nationally and internationally. With such diverse and relatively large participation, I am sure that this conference will achieve its intent - to serve as an effective platform for us, the research community to learn, share and supplement each other's research, while keeping abreast of the latest trends in this arena. We invite you to use this Conference to create new, or to strengthen existing, partnerships between the scientific community, publishers, policy makers and society. Coming to the theme, what are embedded systems? Embedded systems are very widely used, with billions sold every year. Millions of hardware and software engineers work on embedded systems. The development of embedded computing as a research field has helped to move embedded system design from a craft to a discipline recently. This is an important move, because many important tasks (such as safety mission critical tasks) are entrusted to embedded computers. One question often asked about this field is how it differs from traditional computer systems? Are we applying the same principles to smaller systems? I believe that embedded computing, though it uses many techniques from computer science and engineering, poses some unique challenges. First, most of them must perform tasks in real time. This requires a major shift in thinking for both hardware and software engineers. Hardware! Software Co-design is the Key. Second, embedded computing puts a great deal of emphasis on power and energy consumption. Many embedded applications tend to be closer to the edge of energy operation envelope than many general purpose systems. As pressure continues on designers to achieve higher levels of device integration in Embedded chips (SOCs) while reducing cost, size, complexity and power consumption, the need to devise architecture-centric efficient algorithms has become very crucial. This conference, I hope, true to its theme, will address some of the design challenges and the role of architecture-centric algorithms and design methodologies that are capable of achieving the delicate balance of performance, power consumption, and cost in embedded systems. The Program Committee has packed the conference with a host of expert key note speeches, pre-conference tutorials, Invited talks and around 160 research paper presentations in 20 sessions along with many exhibition booths. I congratulate them for this astronomical effort.
A conference of this magnitude would not have been possible without the dedication and support of each and everyone of the committee chairs, organizing members, industry colleagues, sponsors, academic institutes, and all supporting organizations. We sincerely hope that the conference in the city of Penang , known for its rich cultural heritage becomes a grand success. So, whether you are an embedded system designer, Teacher, Researcher, manufacturer, chip/ system vendor, or a foundry person, the ICED2008 in Penang is the right choice to benefit from. I wholeheartedly welcome you all. I would like to wish you a pleasant stay in Penang, and may you have a fruitful conference. Thank you.
Prof. Ali Yeon Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic & International), UniMAP
MESSAGE FROM CONFERENCE CHAIR
Bismillahir-rahmanir-rahim Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and salam sejahtera. I am most grateful to Allah, the most gracious and most merciful, for His blessings on us in organizing the International Conference on Electronic Design 2008 (ICED '08). This conference is indeed very meaningful to us all in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering (PPKKP) and UniMAP as a whole. The main purpose of this conference is to share research outcomes among the researchers and academic staff members of the various Universities, Research Institutions as well as members of the industry, especially in the area of Electronic Design. It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you, the research community to this humble yet pleasant conference. I am very pleased that after six years since our establishment, UniMAP has successfully conducted various conferences, and has received co-operation and support from members of the industry, as well as the research community in the country and abroad. Walking down memory lane, the last National Conference on Electronic Design (NCED) was organized in 2005 in Kangar. Looking back then, we had been a proud recipient of 35 local publications, presented over two-day's period. Today, in this round of ICED 2008, we could stand tall with 170 papers accepted for oral presentation out of 302 academic, industrial and international submissions after a grueling review process. Six keynote speeches, two invited talks and six half-day tutorial sessions featuring prominent speakers, and the IEEE-endorsement and cosponsorship are the special attractions of the conference. The best 10 papers will also be published in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology. The theme for this year's conference, which is "Embedded System Applications", aims to examine in detail or put a measure on the level of embedded technologies and current trends in the world of electronics today, especially in Malaysia. I sincerely believe that through the 22 topics and four tracks that are held in this conference, researchers could effectively explore various possibilities in realizing embedded designs and applications towards practical and commercial utilization. I would also like to stress that in this era of rapid technological advancement, we as researchers will not survive without working in a community, supplementing and supporting each other's work. I believe that this conference would serve as an effective platform for academic staff, researchers and engineers to learn, network, share and to create an environment for intellectual exchanges which would benefit all parties greatly. As a consequence, inputs from our peers would greatly help improve the standard and quality of the projects one is working on. Lastly, may I ask that we work hand-in-hand in our effort to further enhance our research and development (R&D) arena, especially in Electronics, which this country and the world needs. With your continued support and interest in us, I am sure that the quest of making UniMAP a nationally-reputable university is not going to be impossible to achieve.
Before I end, I would like to thank our sponsors, and the organizing committee of this event for their superb drive in making this conference a success. Thank you.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. R.Badlishah Ahmad Conference Chair
MESSAGE FROM THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR
Welcome to the First International Conference on Electronic Design 2008 being held during 1-3, Dec, 2008 at the Hotel Park Royal, Penang, Malaysia. This conference is a forum for researchers and designers to present and discuss recent developments in the Electronic Design in general and Embedded Systems in particular. The theme "Embedded System Applications" is apt and timely as there is a tremendous amount of innovative trends and new applications in this area in the recent past. Embedded Systems are all pervading - VLSI systems, Communication systems, Wireless sensor networks, Bio-medical systems, Vision systems, Mobile systems to name a few. The conference is attracting a large number of researchers and engineers representing academia, government and industry from across the globe. The three day program will consist of Pre-conference Key note speeches, Invited talks, Regular paper sessions, tutorials, Industrial exhibits, and banquets. The main focus will be on challenges and opportunities in this niche area. We received a total of 302 paper submissions. After an initial scrutiny and withdrawals, 234 papers were reviewed. We had a challenging task ahead of us of getting a rigorous review process accomplished. Fortunately, several international and national experts cooperated and completed the review process. As usual most of the reviews trickled in during the last week and we had a tough time keeping our schedules of informing the authors. We accepted a total of 170 papers and included TWO invited papers. I am happy to note that many papers went through three or four reviews and a few two reviews. Where there are only two reviews, the is agreement between the two papers were accepted only when there reviewers otherwise it was sent for a third review. Overall it is a very challenging and satisfying exercise and we want to thank everyone who served as a reviewer or as a TPC member. Thus we can say we have an outstanding technical program for this conference. It is unfortunate that we are unable to include several other good papers in the program due to the limited number of sessions that could be accommodated in two days. We have six key note speeches and two invited talks for this conference from eminent speakers from industry and academia. The key note speakers are: 1. Heck-SweeneY,Gail, General manager Agilent Technologies, Beijing, China. 2. Dr. Narain Arora, Silterra Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Malaysia 3. Ton Steenman, Vice President of Digital Enterprise Group and the General Manager of Low Power Embedded Products Division at Intel Corporation, Malaysia. 4. Ng Sang Beng, CEO, Aemulus Sdn Bhd, Malaysia 5. CF Boon, Sr. Engineering Manager, Motorola Technology Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia. 6. Mr. Kenneth Koh Teng Chew, Founder and Director, TechSource Systems and the Invited speakers are:
1. Prof. V.K.Arora, Wilkes University, PA, USA and 2. Prof. Thambipillai Srikanthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We have also three parallel tracks of Tutorials being offered by a mix of industry experts and experienced Professors. The tutorial speakers are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Prof. Dr. M.Balakrishnan, Dean (PG and Res), lIT - Delhi, India Prof. Dr.Khazani Abdullah, Significant Technoloigies Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Prof. Dr. Susmita Sur Kolay, lSI, Kolkata, India Lim Kok Leng, INTEL, Malaysia and Wong Shee Kian, Aemulus, Penang, Malaysia
We would like to express our thanks to all key note speakers, invited speakers and the tutorial speakers who have readily agreed to offer their expertise and service. We value greatly the services offered by several experienced Professors from all parts of the world who readily agreed to act as session chairs. Many many thanks to them. Our gratitude and thanks are due to many members of the organizing team - first to the General Chair, Dr. R. Badlishah Ahmad for allowing us full freedom to structure the technical program and helping us with numerous logistics. This is like a family function and every member of the PPKKP family deserves to be appreciated for their untiring efforts towards the success of the conference. Another person who is always there to provide us wisdom and mentor-ship is Prof. Ali Yeon, the conference advisor and Deputy Vice Chancellor who silently gave critical inputs and advice on several occasions. Thank you very much Prof. Ali. Last, but not the least, we would like to thank the IEEE Computer Society, Signal Processing Society LEOS and EDS and the industries Aemulus, Agilent, Silterra, Intel, Motorola and TechSource for their technical co-sponsorship. We sincerely hope that all of you will enjoy a memorable technical program and a unique overall experience at the ICED2008.
Prof. Nukala S. Murthy, Chair, Technical Program Committee
MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ADVISOR
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to ICED 2008, the First International Conference on Electronic Design organized by the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), and to the beautiful island of Penang better known as "Pearl of the Orient". The conference theme for ICED 2008 is "Embedded System Applications" and features a very strong technical program. The Technical Program Committee, undertook the difficult job of carefully evaluating the large number of submitted papers, considering the merits of each through detailed reviews and discussions at the Committee meetings, and selecting a technical program of the highest caliber. The two-day program consists of six keynote speeches and technical sessions in four parallel tracks with eminent speakers covering a wide range of topics in various aspects of the conference theme. This rich program provides all attendees with the opportunities to meet and interact with one another. I hope your experience with ICED 2008 will be a fruitful and long lasting one. With your support and participation, ICED will continue its success for a long time. I take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors for their technical and financial support; all the session chairs and speakers for their participation and contribution; and all the members of various committees for their team work and follow-through. Again, welcome to Penang and to ICED 2008. I hope that you will find the conference informative and enjoyable, that you will take the opportunity to meet new friends and visit with old friends, and that you will have a great stay in Penang and Malaysia.
Professor Dr. Farid Ghani Organizing Committee Advisor
