The event comes after the two previous successful editions
of IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES2006,
SIES2007)
which were held respectively in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France
and Lison, Portugal.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers
and practitioners from industry and academia and provide them
with a platform to report on recent developments, deployments,
technology trends and research results, as well as initiatives
related to embedded systems and their applications in a
variety of industrial environments.
Background:
Application domains have had a considerable impact on the
evolution of embedded systems, in terms of required methodologies
and supporting tools and resulting technologies. SoCs and
SoPC are slowly making inroads in to the area of industrial
automation to implement complex field-area intelligent devices
which integrate the intelligent sensor/actuator functionality
by providing on-chip signal conversion, data processing, and
communication functions. There is a growing tendency to network
field-area intelligent devices around industrial type of communication
networks. Similar trends appear in the automotive electronic
systems where the Electronic Control Units, typically implemented
as heterogeneous system-on-chip, are networked by means of
one safety-critical communication protocol. The design of
this kind of networked embedded systems (this includes also
hard real-time industrial control systems) is a challenge
in itself due to the distributed nature of processing elements,
sharing common communication medium, and safety-critical requirements,
to mention some.
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