This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2005, held in Xi'an, China, in December 2005.

The 63 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 keynote speeches were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 361 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on embedded hardware, embedded software, real-time systems, power aware computing, hardware/software co-design and system-on-chip, testing and verification, reconfigurable computing, agent and distributed computing, wireless...