Proceedings of the Workshop on Co-design for Embedded Real-time Systems (CERTS’03)

Computing technology is quickly becoming a fundamental part of many commodity goods. While the demands for bigger and faster machines continue, a new wave of computing revolution is emerging: embedded computing. Previously, industry tailored applications to meet the capabilities of technologies, but now the time has come that technologies need to be tailored for applications. At the same time, the range of demands (e.g. power, dependability, cost etc.) have continued to grow. To best support these demands requires technologies that work across and correctly balance the different demands. A perceived weakness in the embedded real-time systems community is a shortage of events that cover multi-disciplinary topics such as control and scheduling, and hardware software co-design. The aims of this workshop are to: identify other relevant cross-disciplinary topics to embedded real-time systems than the key ones listed above (hardware-software co-design, control-scheduling co-design), identify the state of the art, problems and open research areas related to embedded real-time systems. Finally, we would like to thank all the people who helped with the event; the reviewers for their speed and their quickness, the organizing committee for their guidance, and the members of the IEE and Euromicro Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems who helped with the organisation.