This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on
Architectures Modeling and Simulation SAMOS 2009 held on Samos Greece on July 20-23
2009. The 18 regular papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions.
The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures for multimedia multi many cores
architectures VLSI architectures design architecture modeling and exploration tools. In
addition there are 14 papers from three special sessions which were organized on topics of
current interest: instruction-set customization reconfigurable computing and processor
architectures and mastering cell BE and GPU execution platforms.
