Languages, Design Methods, and Tools for Electronic System Design

This
book brings together a selection of the best papers from the eighteenth edition
of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which took
place on September 14-16, 2015, in Barcelona, Spain.  FDL is a well-established international forum
devoted to dissemination of research results, practical experiences and new
ideas in the application of specification, design and verification languages to
the design, modeling and verification of integrated circuits, complex
hardware/software embedded systems, and mixed-technology systems.

Author Biography

Rolf
Drechsler is head of Cyber-Physical Systems department at the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) since 2011. Furthermore, he is a Full
Professor at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, since
2001. Before, he worked for the Corporate Technology Department of Siemens AG,
and was with the Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwig University of
Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany. Rolf Drechsler received the Diploma and Dr. Phil.
Nat. degrees in computer science from the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main,
Germany, in 1992 and, respectively, 1995. Rolf Drechsler focusses in his
research at DFKI and in the Group for Computer Architecture, which he is
heading at the Institute of Computer Science of the University of Bremen, on
the development and design of data structures and algorithms with an emphasis
on circuit and system design.

Rolf
Drechsler has been and still is a member of the Program Committees of numerous
conferences (including e.g. DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, FDL, MEMOCODE, FMCAD)
and is co-founder of the Graduate School of Embedded Systems which started in
2006. Since 2012, he additionally coordinates the Graduate School System
Design.

He
has received Best Paper Awards from numerous international scientific
conferences, e.g.: Haifa Verification Conference (HVC) 2006, Forum on
Specification & Design Languages (FDL) 2007 and 2010, IEEE Symposium on
Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) 2010,
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2013.

Robert
Wille is Full Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.