Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6 ([http://www.upmc.fr UPMC]) is one of the largest universities teaching science and medicine in France, and indeed in Europe, with 4000 researchers and teaching academics/researchers, 180 laboratories, and some 30 000 students including 8000 in postgraduate studies. UPMC is based in the Latin Quarter in Paris. The [http://www.lip6.fr LIP6 Laboratory] is part of UPMC and is one of the most important centers of Computer Science in France (450 permanent researchers and Phd). The [http://www-soc.lip6.fr SoC & Embedded Systems Department] of LIP6 has about 80 employees working on all the main areas of research in the domain of Massively Parallel Multiprocessor Systems on Chips including analogue components for multimedia/ telecom applications.