The conflicting demands of high performance, low energy consumption,
and short time-to-market on embedded processors have forced a
re-evaluation of the design process. Domain-specific embedded
processors, such as network, automotive, and others, present
interesting architectural refinements. Reprogrammable and
reconfigurable embedded processors provide an alternative approach,
capable of delivering a single, fixed-silicon device that can amortize
manufacturing costs for low-to-medium volume market segments. This
special issue explores (micro-) architectural design approaches,
trade-offs and compiler technologies, for both domain-specific and
customizable embedded processors.

All manuscripts are subject to standard rigorous review process of ACM
TECS.
Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts electronically via the
Manuscript Central website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tecs). Authors
should clearly identify their papers as submissions for the “Special issue
on Application Specific Processors” on their manuscript and in the
“Author’s Cover Letter”-field of the web submission form. The papers should
adhere to standard ACM TECS formatting requirements. The page count
limit is 25, additional pages will not be allowed.

Publication: approx. late 2011