Advances in system-on-chip (SoC) technologies make it possible to develop low-cost and compact-size ICs for information technology (IT) and consumer electronic products. Wireless or Radio SoCs which provide wireless accesses are regarded as one of the most important categories. Successful stories such as Bluetooth, WLAN, and GSM SoCs encourage the development of SoCs for advanced wireless access technologies, and thus the research and development of advanced Wireless SoCs have attracted considerable interest from both academia and industry in recent several years. Unfortunately, these advanced wireless systems such as WiMAX and 4G support rich applications and broadband accesses which make the SoCs very difficult to design and implement. Major issues such the requirement development, system level model, system level design (SLD), and verification and validation for such complicated Wireless SoCs need more investigations and studies. The hardware and software partitions and hardware and software co-designs of Wireless SoCs are also important research topics. Embedded software is especially critical for Wireless SoCs since the system software and application software are both complicated. The code efficiency, low-power and small foot-print software are highly required for Wireless SoCs which are usually employed in battery-operated and portable devices.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of the system level design, HW/SW co-design, embedded software, research platforms and case studies for advanced Wireless SoCs.