New to the 2007 MEMOCODE conference is the HW/SW Co-Design Contest. Members of the technical and steering committees from MEMOCODE 2006 thought that the co-design practice is distinct from conventional hardware or software design practice. A co-design contest was conceived to help elucidate these issues and to foster greater interest in the design aspects of the MEMOCODE conference. The contest would also serve to showcase advances in co-design tools and methodologies. Below, we describe briefly the development of the contest format and the thinking behind the choices. The actual call-for-participation that appeared on the contest website (http://memocode07.ece.cmu.edu/contest.html) is reproduced in the appendix section. 1 Contest Rationale Guidelines. The purpose of the contest is to popularize codesign as a particular science. For this reason, the contest cannot be very short, like a CADathlon (software) contest, nor can it be too long like a conventional hardware design contest. F...
Forrest Brewer, James C. Hoe