System-Level Design of Embedded Platform Architectures

Speaker: Luca Carloni, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

Details: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch

Abstract:
The heterogeneous and distributed nature of many emerging classes of embedded applications adds a new level of design complexity requiring the deployment of tightly-interactive, concurrent processes on networked platform architectures. While the design of a single component is important, the critical challenges in the realization of a system-on-chip or a distributed embedded system lie in the integration of the components. In addressing these challenges we sustain that communication plays an increasingly central role both at design time and run time. We present a communication-based system-level design methodology that simplifies the integrated design and validation of embedded platform architectures while enabling important properties like modularity, scalability, flexibility, and reusability. In particular, we argue how effective design space exploration
can be achieved through the decoupling of the design of the computational elements and the synthesis of the communication infrastructure. For the latter we present recent results on the design and optimization of networks-on-chip.