Hardware Software Co-design of Embedded Systems

Course No : CS XXX (3 0 0)

Course content

Specification and Models of Computation: StateCharts, CSP, KPN Mapping applications to Architectures: Cycle-based Simulation of Hardware and Software Mapping Algorithms to hardware: Transform simple software programs into cycle-based hardware descriptions with equivalent behavior and vice versa Components (for example): TI OMAP5, FPGAs, on chip networks, embedded real time OS. Design Space Exploration: Performance Estimation, Execution Time Analysis and Performance Analysis, Transformation and Optimization Techniques System Partitioning: Hardware Software partitioning, Hardware-Software Interfaces

Evaluation

Two tests: 60% Labs and Project: 30% Term papers (2): 10%

Texts/References

Peter Marwedel: Embedded System Design. Springer, ISBN 978-94-007-0256-1, 2011. Marilyn Wolf: Computers as Components. Academic Press, ISBN 978-0123884367, 2012. Giovanni De Micheli, Rolf Ernst, and Wayne Wolf: Readings in Hardware/Software Co-Design. Morgan Kaufman, 2001. We will also read seminal papers in this area.