Palestrante: Lech Jozwiak

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Eindhoven University of Technology

The Netherland

 

Resumo: The recent spectacular progress in modern microelectronics and information technology has enabled implementation of a complete complex information processing system on a single chip, global networking, (mobile) wire-less communication, and (mobile) autonomous computing. A big stimulus has been created towards development of various kinds of application-specific embedded and autonomous systems. At the same however, the spectacular advances in microelectronics and information technology introduced unusual silicon and system complexity. This complexity results in a number of new difficult to solve issues that include: power and energy crisis and increased leakage power, interconnect scalability problems and on-chip communication problems, dominating influence of interconnects on all major physical system characteristics (area, speed, …), decreased reliability and problems with quality assurance and validation of the highly complex and heterogeneous systems, growing design productivity gap, time-to market, and the development costs. These problems cannot be adequately resolved without an adequate system and design methodology adaptation.
The  aims of this presentation are the following:
*  to analyse the problems faced during development of modern complex embedded SoCs;
*  to discuss which design and design automation concepts seem to be adequate to solve the problems;
*  to consider application of these concepts to the system-level design of embedded SoCs;
*  to discuss our new quality-driven model-based automatic architecture synthesis method and corresponding EDA-tools that enable effective and efficient multi-objective architecture synthesis for complex hard real-time embedded heterogeneous multi-processor SoCs.

 

Data e Hora: 1/3/2010 às 10:00