Design and specification languages are of utmost interest in the area of embedded systems and the Forum on Specification and Design Languages has been once again the main European event for the embedded systems and chip design community.


Advances in Design and Specification Languages for Embedded Systems is the latest contribution to the Chip Design Languages series and it consists of selected papers presented at the Forum on Specifications and Design Languages (FDL'06), in September 2006. FDL, an ECSI conference, is the premier European forum to present research results, exchange experiences, and learn about new trends in the application of specification and design languages as well as of associated design and modelling methods and tools for integrated circuits, embedded systems, and heterogeneous systems. Modelling and specification concepts push the development of new methodologies for design and verification to system level, they thus provide the means for a model-driven design of complex information processing systems in a variety of application domains.