Driven by the rapid growth of portable wireless devices, sensor nodes, and consumer electronics, effective system-on-chip (SoC) designs have become critical in ASIC development. As today, there are multiple systems are co-existed to provide high-performance wireless transmission in different environment.A multi-mode/system transmission from a single device is necessary to optimize the transmission quality with the constraints of the limited power and resources. A simple module optimization may not be sufficient to meet the requirements of low-cost and low-power compact-size ICs instead cross-layer system-view designs might be necessary. With current successfully deployed of wireless systems, like WLAN, 2G, and 3G, we expect sensor networks, UWB, WiMAX and 3GPP LTE will be widely deployed in the near future. The integration of multi-system becomes un-avoid and requires new design to meet the QoS requirements in various systems. In this year workshop, we will focus on system level models, system level designs (SLD), and verification and validation for such complicated Wireless SoCs. The hardware and software partitions and hardware and software co-designs of Wireless SoCs are also important. Finally, embedded software is 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 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 and embedded software design issues for advanced Wireless SoCs.