Keynote: “Design space exploration and run-time resource management in the embedded multi-core era”

Increasingly demanding complex algorithms for multimedia systems and higher resolutions for multiview videos hit power and memory walls in portable hardware. Silicon IC technology scaling is reaching two-dimensional limitations that accompany escalating technology cost wall. In this scenario the severe costs of power density, circuit performance variability and energy constraints call for new algorithms-to-architecture approaches. This talk will highlight the architectures and circuits techniques that will influence multimedia systems architectures in the future. Design challenges and specific solutions that deal with energy dissipation in the case of multiview video are addressed. In this presentation the technology-design-architecture-algorithms interactions are pointed as drivers for new cross-layer optimizations in energy-constrained multimedia systems.