SAMOS is a premier annual embedded systems conference. It brings together researchers from both academia and industry on the quiet and inspiring northern mountainside of the Mediterranean island of Samos, providing an environment where collaboration rather than competition is fostered. SAMOS XII has IEEE technical co-sponsorship by IEEE CAS Society (pending) and IEEE SSCS Germany Chapter (pending), and the conference proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore. Authors are invited to submit technical papers in accordance with the author's instructions and describing original work in one of the following tracks:

APPLICATIONS, SYSTEMS, ARCHITECTURES, AND PROCESSORS
This track focuses on advances in the efficient execution of systems in many platform domains. New microarchitectural techniques to improve the performance of vector, reconfigurable, multimedia, graphics, real-time, embedded, multithreading, SDR and low power processor architectures by exploiting novel parallel execution, memory hierarchies and cache architectures are welcomed. Moreover this track presents advances in efficient application execution and system implementation technologies exploiting novel architectural and microarchitectural techniques. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Novel Architectures and Micro-architectures for Embedded Systems
- Application-specific and Domain-specific Embedded Systems
- Embedded Reconfigurable Processors
- Multimedia and Graphics Architectures and Processors
- Embedded Hardware Architectures for Industrial Applications
- Energy-Aware and Low-Power Processors
- Embedded Parallel Systems and Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip
- Memory Management and Smart Caches
- Network-on-Chip Interconnects
- Digital Signal Processors / Software Defined Radios

MODELING, DESIGN, AND DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION
This track focuses on all design processes for embedded systems: specification and modeling languages and simulation, hardware/software and system synthesis and compilation strategies; performance and power estimation and analysis; design and design space exploration methodologies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Hardware/Software and Algorithm/Architecture Co-design
- Design Space Exploration Strategies, Algorithms and CAD Tools
- Specification Languages and Models
- System-Level Design, Simulation, and Verification
- Hardware, Software and System Synthesis Techniques and CAD Tools
- MP-SoC and Platform Based Design Methodologies
- MP-SoC Programming, Compilers, Simulation and Mapping Technologies
- Profiling, Measurement and Analysis Techniques and CAD Tools
- (Design for) System Adaptivity
- Testing and Debugging

SAMOS Panel: the conference will feature a lively panel discussion coordinated by Yale Patt, Univ. Texas - Austin, and Trevor Mudge, Univ. Michigan, focusing on identifying the critical problems and opportunities provided by the emerging multicore era of the microprocessor.