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Lecture9-PCIe (pdf)

• Embedded System Design

• Instructor: Dr. Bijan Alizadeh
• FALL 2007

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• How to design an embedded system

• How to partition a system to hardware and software parts efficiently

• Hardware/software Co-design concepts 

TEXT BOOK

• J. A. Fisher, P. Faraboschi and C. Young, "Embedded Computing: a VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2005.

• P. Marwedel, “Embedded System Design”, Springer, 2006.

• F. Vahid and T. Givargis, “Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware / Software Approach”, 1999.

• Lecture notes.

• Selected papers.

COURSE OUTLINES

1. An introduction to embedded processing (slides)

2. Application areas

3. Embedded System Technologies (slides)

3.1.  Processor technology

3.2.  IC technology

3.3.  Design technology

4. Custom single purpose processor (slides)

4.1.  Control Datapath model

4.2.  FSMD

4.3.  Optimizations

4.4.  High level synthesis algorithms

5. General purpose processor (slides)

5.1.  Architectural considerations

5.2.  An overview of VLIW and ILP

5.3.  An overview of ISA design

5.4.  Superscalar Vs. VLIW

5.5.  Rules of the compiler

5.6.  Memory architectures

6. Modeling techniques and system design

7. System level partitioning (slides)

7.1.  Structural partitioning

7.2.  Functional partitioning

7.3.  Automatic partitioning approaches

8. Multi-criteria optimization (slides)

9. Design space exploration

10. Communication synthesis (slides)

11. Specification and representation of embedded systems

12. Embedded compiling (slides)

12.1.      ILP compiler

12.2.      Compiling for VLIWs

12.3.      Space, time and energy tradeoffs

13. Operating system requirements for embedded systems (slides)

13.1.      Real-time OS

13.2.      Kernel

13.3.      Multithreaded programming (slides)

14. Hardware/Software Co-design for embedded systems (slides)

15. Formal Verification (slides)

• Computer Assignments                 15%

• Presentation                               20%

• Project                                      30%

• Final Exam                                 35%

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