Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation: 21st International Conference, SAMOS 2021, Virtual Event, July 4–8, 2021, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topics as follows: simulation and design space exploration; the 3Cs - Cache, Cluster and Cloud; heterogeneous SoC; novel CPU architectures and applications; dataflow; innovative architectures and tools for security; next generation computing; insights from negative results.

Table of Contents:
Simulation and Design Space Exploration.- Accurate LLVM IR to Binary CFGs Mapping for Simulation of Optimized Embedded Software.- RVfplib: A Fast and Compact Open-Source Floating-Point Emulation Libbrary for Tiny RISC-V Processors.-Exploiting Similarity in Evolutionary Product Design for Improved Design Space Exploration.- Automatic Search-Space Compression in System-Level Design Space Exploration using Deep Generative Models.- The 3Cs - Cache, Cluster and Cloud.-A Case for Partial Co-Allocation Constraints in Compressed Caches.- PoCL-R: A Scalable Low Latency Distributed OpenCL Runtime.- An analytical model for loop tiling transformation.-Interference-aware workload placement for improving latency distribution of converged HPC/Big Data cloud infrastructures.- Energy-efficient and High-throughput CNN Inference on Embedded CPUsGPUs MPSoCs.- Evaluating System Identification Methods for Predicting Thermal Dissipation of Heterogeneous SoCs.- Embeddings of Task Mappings to Multicore Systems.- Novel CPU Architectures and Applications.- RT-LIFE: Portable RISC-V Interface for Real-Time Lightweight Security Enforcement.- Phase-Aware CPU Workload Forecasting.- WhiskEras 2.0: Fast and Accurate Whisker Tracking In Rodents.- Periodic Scheduling of Cyclo-Static Dataflow Models.- Efficient Operator Sharing Modulo Scheduling for Sum-Product Network Inference on FPGAs.- A Framework for Fixed Priority Periodic Scheduling Synthesis from Synchronous Data-flow Graphs.- Special Session on Innovative Architectures and tools for Security.- Hard edges: Hardware-based Control-Flow Integrity for Embedded Devices.- Deep Learning Techniques for Side-Channel Analysis on AES Datasets Collected from Hardware and Software Platforms.- Special Session on Reports from research projects – Digital services and platforms: Application areas automotive industry, energy, agriculture, healthcare and industry 4.0 workshop.- EDRA: A Hardware-assisted Decoupled Access/Execute Framework on the Digital Market.- Modeling the Scalability of the EuroExa Reconfigurable Accelerators - Preliminary Results? .-The Known Unknowns: Discovering Trade-offs Between Heterogeneous Code Changes.- Towards efficient HW acceleration in edge-cloud infrastructures: The SERRANO approach.- Cross-domain Modelling of Verification and Validation Workflows in the Large Scale European Research Project VALU3S.- Special Session on Next Generation Computing