Topics:

The conference will cover the theory and practice of application-specific systems, architectures and processors. Areas for application-specific computing are many and varied. Some sample areas include information systems, signal and image processing, multimedia systems, high-speed networks, compression, graphics, and cryptography.

Aspects of application-specific computing that are of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Application-specific systems: network computing, special-purpose systems, performance evaluation, design languages, compilers, operating systems, nanocomputing systems and applications, hardware/software integration, rapid-prototyping.
• Application-specific architectures: special-purpose designs, design methodology, CAD tools, fault tolerance, specifications and interfaces, networks-on-a-chip, hardware/software codesign, processor arrays, SoC, superscalar, multithreaded, VLIW, and EPIC architectures.
• Application-specific processors: digital signal processing, computer arithmetic, configurable/custom computing, implementation methodologies, new technologies, fine-grain parallelism, low-power designs, asynchronous hardware.

The conference will feature a keynote speech, paper presentations, and recreational activities. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Information for authors:
Your paper should be a maximum of 5000 words. A PDF version of the complete paper should be submitted via the conference web page at http://www.ece.rice.edu/asap2004. For further information about the conference and paper formatting instructions, please see the conference web page.

Conference Organizers
General Chairs:

• Joe Cavallaro, Rice University
• Lothar Thiele, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

• Sanjay Rajopadhye, Colorado State University
• Tobias Noll, RWTH Aachen University

• Jose Fortes, University of Florida
• S-Y Kung, Princeton University
• Michael Schulte, University of Wisconsin
• Earl Swartzlander, University of Texas

Program Committee:
Mark Arnold, Lehigh University; Eduard Ayguade, Polytechnic University of Catalonia; Magdy Bayoumi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland; Neil Burgess, Cardiff University; Peter Cappello, University of California at Santa Barbara; Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University; Alain Darte, Ecole Normale Supérieur de Lyon; Ed Deprettere, Leiden University; Gerhard Fettweis, Dresden University of Technology; Graham Jullien, University of Calgary; Israel Koren, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Tomas Lang, University of California at Irvine; Ruby Lee, Princeton University; Wayne Luk, Imperial College; Neeraj Magotra, Texas Instruments; Elias Manolakos, Northeastern University; John McCanny, Queen's University of Belfast; Jean-Michel Muller, Ecole Normale Supé deLyon; Keshab Parhi, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities; Peter Pirsch, University of Hannover; Gang Qu, University of Maryland; Patrice Quinton, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu; Sriram Sundararajan, Texas Instruments; Juergen Teich, Erlangen University; Alexander Tenca, Oregon State University; Stamatis Vassiliadis, Delft University of Technology; Ingrid Verbauwhede, University of California at Los Angeles; Doran Wilde, Brigham Young University; Roger Woods, Queen's University of Belfast; Pen-Chung Yew, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities