1. Editorial

   • Petru Eles
   • Zebo Peng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 6

2. A Sensitivity-Based Design Space Exploration Methodology for Embedded Systems

   • William Fornaciari
   • Donatella Sciuto
   • Vittorio Zaccaria

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 33

3. Tuning of Cache Ways and Voltage for Low-Energy Embedded System Platforms

   • Tony Givargis
   • Frank Vahid

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 51

4. Stack Size Minimization for Embedded Real-Time Systems-on-a-Chip

   • Paolo Gai
   • Giuseppe Lipari
   • Marco Di Natale

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 87

5. Processor Utilization Bounds for Real-Time Systems With Precedence Constraints

   • Hongchao (Stephanie) Liu
   • Xiaobo Sharon Hu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 113

6. An Effective Software Pipelining Algorithm for Clustered Embedded VLIW Processors

   • Cagdas Akturan
   • Margarida F. Jacome

   OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 138

7. The System-on-a-Chip Lock Cache

   • Bilge E. S. Akgul
   • Vincent J. Mooney III

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 174