Schedule

Time-Table
Class period: 20/02/2012 - 06/06/2012
Break: 19/03/2012 - 21/03/2012
Easter break: 05/04/2012 - 11/04/2012

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Hardware - Software Design

of Embedded Systems M

Degree on electronic engineering - II year
A.A. 2011-2012

Professor:
Luca Benini

Course area: ING-INF/01 (K01X)
Course code: 733

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NOTE: LECTURES of 10/05/2012 and 11/05/2012 will be held at GPU LAB - CIRAM, Via Saragozza n. 8

Course Information

Hardware-Software system architecture

• Systems-on-chip
  • SoC with general-purpose processor
  • SoC with application-specific processor
  • Reconfigurable SoCs
  • Multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoCs)
  • Networks on chip (NoCs)
• Systems on Board
  • Microcontroller systems
  • Smart sensors
  • Reconfigurable systems
• Distributed embedded systems
  • Wired communication protocols
  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Wearable and portable systems
• Software components for embedded systems
  • Real-time Operating systems
  • Device drivers & Firmware
  • APIs e hardware abstraction layers

• Modeling HW/SW systems
  • Platform-based design
  • Component-based design
  • Communication-based design
• Functional abstractions for HW/SW
  • Data-flow (es. Synchronous dataflow)
  • Control-oriented (es. Generalized state machines)
  • Event-driven (es. Simulink)
  • Model selection strategy, hybrid models
• Hardware-software description languages
  • Survey of languages for system design (focus on SystemC)
  • Case studies
• Synthesis and computer-aided design
  • Key issues in HW/SW synthesis
  • Hardware & software (scheduling, allocation, partitioning)
  • Alternative design flows

• Simulation/Emulation/Prototyping
  • Cosimulation. Cosimulation algorithms
  • Commercial cosimulator examples
  • Emulation. Basic concepts and examples
  • Prototyping: ICE and prototyping boards
• Concurrent HW-SW verification

Course Books

	Computer organization and design - The Hardware / Software interface by David A. Patterson & John L. Hennessy ISBN: 978-0-12-374493-7 Buy online
	Computer Architecture, 4th Edition - A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy & David A. Patterson John Wiley & Sons October, 2001 Hardcover Buy online
	Embedded System Design by Peter Marwedel, University of Dortmund 1st edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Hardbound, 2nd edition, Springer: Paperback, Website
	Computers as components - Principles of Embedded Computing System Design 2nd Edition by Wayne Wolf Website
	Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach By David Kirk and Wen-mei Hwu ISBN: 978-0-12-381472-2 Online Morgan Kaufmann

Other material:

Link to power point slides and other training aid