Incredibly exciting to to see that you are proceeding with work!!! I was just thinking you you guys today intended to reach out.

Two small request:
-We hare rewriting the ESDK from scratch and really want collaboration. I look forward to seeing what you have done wrt to efficient barriers and program load.(note, we have depracted srec load for future only elf formats). The new community effort is located here. It would be great if you one consider contributing back some of the smaller piece (like optimized barrier) once you can publish
https://github.com/parallella/pal
-We need to accelerate the innovation and discovery cycle. Once your articles are accepted, please consider pre-publishing at http://arxiv.org/. Most journals/conferences allow it...and if the journals don't allow it then quite frankly they are idiots!
Cheers,
Andreas