Fall 2005

EE 382V - Design of Embedded Systems

Unique: 16400

 

Class meets on Monday: 5:00 - 8:00

Room: NOA 1.102

 

Auditors welcome

 


 Course goals:

 

This course is designed to:

 


Course prerequisites

Student should have a working knowledge of C and C++ including software development and debugging. It is helpful to have some basic knowledge of communication systems, The class project involves taking public domain C++ code for a DRM  (Digital Radio Mondiale) PC based system and mapping it to an ARM based platform using CoWare tools.


Instructors:

 

Saf Asghar --Office hours: By appointment

Steven Smith -- Office hours: By appointment

Margarida Jacome -- Office hours: By appointment

Jacob Abraham -- Office hours: Monday 3-5PM - ACES 6.124

Mark McDermott -- Office hours: By appointment ENS 425

 


Teaching Assistant:

 

Minsik Cho -- Office hours: TBD  LRC 5th Floor

email:   mcho at  ece.utexas.edu

 


Lab Assignments:


Class Project 

 


 Course outline and schedule:

 

 

Dates

(Monday)

Lecture Topic

Instructor

Lecture Notes

4 per page

Lecture Notes

1 per page

HW Assignments

Sep 12th

Class Overview

Abraham

Introduction

Introduction

HW #1 

 

Due Oct 10th

System-C Tutorial

ESLX

Lecture 1

Lecture 1

Sep 19th

Project MRD & PRD

McDermott

Lecture 2

Lecture 2

Tutorial: DRM

Platform based design

Saf Asghar

Lecture 3a

Lecture 3b

 

Lecture 3a

Lecture 3b

Lecture 3c

Lecture 3d

Sep 26th

Mapping HLL applications to

System-C

Steven Smith

Lecture 4 Lecture 4

Performance Analysis of Embedded Systems

Abraham

Lecture 5 Lecture 5
 Oct 3rd

Theory and application of algorithmic mapping

Saf Asghar

Lecture 6a

Lecture 6b

Handout

Lecture 6a

Lecture 6b

System Level Design Methodology

McDermott

Lecture 7

Lecture 7

Oct 10th

Models of Computation

Abraham

Lecture 8

Lecture 8

HW #2

 

Due Oct 31st

Communication of FSMs

Abraham

Lecture 9

Lecture 9

Oct 17th

Transaction Level Modeling & Electronic system languages

Steven Smith

Lecture 10

Lecture 10

Hardware accelerators, media instructions, co-processors

Steven Smith

 Lecture 11

 Lecture 11

White Paper

Oct 24th

Dataflow Networks

Abraham

 Lecture 12

 Lecture 12

Discrete Events

Abraham

 Lecture 13  Lecture 13
Oct 31st

Mid term Exam

     

HW #3

Nov 7th

System design metrics, modeling

and scheduling

McDermott

 Lecture 14

 Lecture 14

SW Estimation

HW Estimation

System Integration – SW/HW

Steven Smith

 Lecture 15

 Lecture 15
Nov 14th

Testing SOCs & MS Components

Abraham

 Lecture 16

 Lecture 16

Verification (HW/SW Co-verification)

Abraham

 Lecture 17

Lecture 17

Nov 21st

Synthesis (C --> FPGA)

Abraham

Lecture 19

 Lecture 19

Special Topic: FPGA based emulation for SOCs

Dave Baker

(SigmaTel, Inc.)

 Lecture 20

Lecture 20

Nov 28th

Dec 5th

Project Reviews

 All

   

 

 

 


Link to Various SOC Articles

 

Link to Dr. Adnan’s VLSI Communications Class Notes

 

Link to System-C tutorials

 

Link to DRM Information


 

Relevant Web Pages

 

http://www.gigascale.org/metropolis/  Gigascale Website

http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/giotto/ Giotto Website

http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/Respep/Research/asves/  AS-V’s Website

http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/   Berkeley Wireless Research Center Website

http://www.cadence.com/products/incisive.html   Cadence Design tools based on Polis

http://www-sop.inria.fr/esterel.org/   Estrerel programming language Website

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cecs/   UC Irvine Center for Embedded Computer Systems

http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/cad/cadlab-trs/  UCI Technical reports

http://class.ee.iastate.edu/cpre588/lectures.html   Embedded systems class at Iowa State

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/content/esd/    Embedded system design text book slides

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~cssi/   CMU Center for Silicon System Implementation

http://www.ics.uci.edu/  Web page of useful links on HW/SW codesign

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~harry/classes_files/CS269_02/papers/

 


 

General Reference

 

G. De Micheli, editor

Special Issue on Hardware/Software Co-design

Proceedings of IEEE, Vol 85, No. 3, March 1997.

 

D. D. Gajski, F. Vahid, S. Narayan, J. Gong

Specification and Design of Embedded Systems,

Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.

J. Staunstrup and W. Wolf, editors

Hardware/Software Co-Design: Principles and Practice

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

 

G. DeMicheli, R. Ernst, and W. Wolf, editors,

Readings in Hardware/Software Co-Design,

Academic Press, 2002.

 

Friedrich Mayer-Lindenberg

Dedicated Digital Processors: Methods in Hardware/Software Co-design
John Wiley and Sons, February 2004

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470844442.html

 

Design of Embedded Systems

 

S. Edwards, L. Lavagno, E. Lee, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Design of Embedded Systems: Formal Methods, Validation and Synthesis

Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 85 (n.3) - March 1997, p366-290

 

R. B. Ortega L. Lavagno, G. Borriello

Models and Methods for HW/SW Intellectual Property Interfacing

1998 NATO ASI Proceedings on System Synthesis, Il Ciocco (Italy) 1998

 

J. Young, J. MacDonald, M. Shilman, A. Tabbara, P. Hilfinger and R. Newton

Design and Specification of Embedded Systems in Java Using Successive, Formal

Refinement

Proceedings of Design Automation Conference 1998, p70-75

 

Models of Computation

 

Overview

 

L. Lavagno, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and E. Sentovich

Models of Computation for Embedded System Design

1998 NATO ASI Proceedings on System Synthesis, Il Ciocco (Italy) 1998

 

Finite State Machines

 

D. Harel

Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems

Sci. Comput. Programs, 8:231-274, 1987.

 

D. Harel, H, Lachover, A. Namad, A. Pnueli, M. Politi, R. Sherman, A. Shtull-Trauring, M.Trakhtenbrot

STATEMATE: A Working Enviroment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems

IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, vol. 16, No. 4, 1990

 

D. Harel, A. Namad

The STATEMATE Semantics of Statecharts

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1996

 

A. Girault, B. Lee, E.A. Lee

Hierarchical finite state machines with multiple concurrency models

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 18, No. 6, 1999, pp.742-760

 

FunState

 

L. Thiele, K. Strehl, D. Ziegenbein, R. Ernst, and J. Teich

FunState: An Internal Design Representation for Codesign

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-99),

San Jose, California, pages 558-565, November 7-11, 1999

 

SpecCharts

 

F. Vahid, S. Narayan, D. D. GAjski

SpecCharts: a VHDL front-end for embedded systems

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 14, (no.6), June 1995, p. 694-706

 

Dataflow

 

E. A. Lee and D. G. Messerschmitt

Synchronous Data Flow

Proc. of the IEEE, September, 1987.

 

E. A. Lee and T. M. Parks

Dataflow Process Networks

Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 83, no. 5, pp. 773-801, May, 1995.

 

Synchronous Languages

 

N. Halbwachs

Synchronous Programming of Reactive Systems

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.

 

Gerard Berry

The Foundations of Esterel

Proof, Language and Interaction: Essays in Honour of Robin Milner, G. Plotkin, C. Stirling and M. Tofte, editors, MIT Press, 1998.

 

Gerard Berry

The Esterel v5 Language Primer

Ecole des Mines and INRIA, for latest updates on Esterel: Esterel.org

Page 2 of 8 Relevant Publications

 

 

N. Halbwachs, P. Raymond

A Tutorial of Lustre

http://www-verimag.imag.fr

 

Petri Nets

 

Tadao Murata

Petri Nets: Properties, Analysis and Applications

Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 77, No. 4, April 1989, pp541-580.

 

J. Cortadella, M. Kishinevsky, L. Lavagno, and A. Yakovlev

Synthesizing Petri nets from state-based models

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, November 1995

 

Van Der Aalst, W.M.P.

The application of Petri nets to workflow management.

Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, vol.8, (no.1), World Scientific, Feb.

1998. p.21-66.

 

Jaragh, M.; Saleh, K.

Synthesis of communications protocol converters using the timed Petri net model

Journal of Systems and Software, vol.47, (no.1), Elsevier, 1 May 1999. p.53-69

 

Tagged-Signal Model

 

E. Lee, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

A Denotational Framework for Comparing Models of Computation

Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M97/11.

 

Architecture

 

P. Lieverse, P. van der Wolf, E. Deprettere, K. Vissers (Edited by: L. G. Chen, H. M. Hang, I. Kuroda)

A methodology for architecture exploration of heterogeneous signal processing systems

1999 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems. SiPS 99. Design and Implementation

 

J. Hill, R. Szewczyk, A. Woo, S. Hollar, D. Culler, K. Pister

System architecture directions for network sensors

ASPLOS 2000

 

Scheduling

 

C. L. Liu, J. W. Layland

Scheduling algorithms for multiprogramming in a hard-real-time environment

Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol.20, (no.1), Jan. 1973

Page 3 of 8 Relevant Publications

 

F. Balarin, L. Lavagno, P. Murthy, and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Scheduling for Embedded Real-Time Systems

IEEE Design and Test of Computers 1998

 

Software Estimation and Software Synthesis

 

K. Suzuki and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Efficient Software Performance Estimation Methods for Hardware-Software Codesign

Proceedings of Design Automotion Conference 1996, pp266-290

 

P. K. Murthy, S. S. Bhattacharyya, and E. A. Lee,

Joint Minimization of Code and Data for Synchronous Dataflow Programs

Journal of Formal Methods in System Design, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp41-70, July 1997.

 

Y.-T. S. Li, S. Malik

Performance analysis of embedded software using implicit path enumeration

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Dec. 1997, vol. 16, (no.12):1477-87

 

P. G. Paulin, C. Liem, M. Cornero, F. Nacabal, G. Goossens

Embedded software in real-time signal processing systems: application and architecture trends

Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 85, (no.3), IEEE, March 1997, p. 419-35

 

G. Goossens, J. Van Praet, D. Lanneer, W. Geurts, A. Kifli, C. Liem, P. G. Paulin

Embedded software in real-time signal processing systems: design technologies

Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 85, (no.3), IEEE, March 1997, p. 436-54

 

Balarin, F.; Chiodo, M.; Giusto, P.; Hsieh, H.; Jurecska, A.; Lavagno, L.; Sangiovanni- Vincentelli, A.;Sentovich, E.M.; Suzuki, K.

Synthesis of software programs for embedded control applications

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol.18, (no.6), IEEE, June 1999. pp834-849

 

Platform-based Design

 

A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, A. Ferrari

System Design - Traditional Concepts and New Paradigms

Proceedings of ICCD 99, Austin, October, 1999, pp.2-12

 

K. Keutzer, A. R. Newton, J. Rabaey, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

System-level design: orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol.19, (no.12), IEEE, Dec. 2000 Page 4 of 8 Relevant Publications

 

A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Defining Platform-based Design

EEDesign, February, 2002

 

Communication-based Design

 

A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, M. Sgroi, L. Lavagno

Formal Models for Communication-based Design

Proceedings of CONCUR 2000, August, 2000

M. Sgroi, M. Sheets, A. Mihal, K. Keutzer, S. Malik, J. Rabaey, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Addressing the System-on-a-Chip Interconnect Woes Through Communication-Based Design

Proceedings of DAC 2001, June 18-22, 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

 

J. Burch, R. Passerone, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Overcoming Heterophobia: Modeling Concurrency in Heterogeneous Systems

Proceedings of Application of Concurrency to System Design, Newcastle, UK, 2001

 

A. Pinto, L. Carloni, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Constrait-Driven Communication Synthesis

Proceedings of DAC 2002, June 10-14, 2002, New Orleans, LA, USA

 

TTP and FlexRay

 

Kopetz, H.; Grunsteidl, G.

TTP - A Protocol for Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems

Computer, vol.27,(no.1), Jan. 1994. p.14-23

 

H. Kopetz

The Time-Triggered Model of Computation

19th IEEE Systems Symposium, Madrid, Spain, December, 1998

 

R. Belschner, et al.

FlexRay Requirements Specification

http://www.flexray.com

 

Interface-Based Design

 

J. Rowson and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Interface-based Design

Proceedings of Design Automation Conference 1997, pag. 178-183.

Page 5 of 8 Relevant Publications

 

R. Passerone, J. Rowson and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Automatic Synthesis of Interfaces between Incompatible Protocols

Proceedings of Design Automation Conference 1998, pag. 8-13

 

P. Chou, K. Hines, R. Ortega, K. Partridge, G. Borriello.

ipChinook: An Integrated IP-based Design Framework for Distributed Embedded Systems

Proceedings of the 36th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, New Orleans, LA, June

1999.

 

L. P. Carloni, Kenneth L. McMillan, Alexander Saldanha, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.

A Methodology for Correct-by-Construction Latency Insensitive Design

Proceedings of the Internaltional Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 1999.

 

L. P. Carloni, Kenneth L. McMillan, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.

Latency Insensitive Protocols

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, Trento, Italy, July 1999.

 

R. Passerone, L. Alfaro, T. A. Henzinger, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Convertibility Verification and Converter Synthesis: Two Faces of the Same Coin

International Conference on Computer Aided Design 2002, November, 2002

 

Component-based Design

 

L. de Alfaro, T.A. Henzinger

Interface Theories for Component-Based Design

Proceedings of First Workshop on Embedded Software, EMSOFT2001, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, Oct. 8-10, 2001

 

E. A. Lee, Y. Xiong

System-Level Types for Component-Based Design

Proceedings of First Workshop on Embedded Software, EMSOFT2001, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, Oct. 8-10, 2001

 

UML in Embedded System Design

 

G. Booch, J. Rumbaugh, I. Jacobson

The Unified Modeling Language User Guide

Addison-Wesley, c1999 (This is a book)

 

G. Martin, L. Lavagno, J. Louis-Guerin

Embedded UML: a merger of real-time UML and co-design

Proceedings of CODES 2001, Copenhagen, April 2001, pp.23-28

 

R. Chen, M. Sgroi, G. Martin, L. Lavagno, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, J. Rabaey

Embedded System Design Using UML and Platforms

Page 6 of 8 Relevant Publications

Proceedings of FDL 2002, Marseille, France, September 2002

 

Design Methodologies and Tools

 

Metropolis

 

F. Balarin, L. Lavagno, C. Passerone, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, M. Sgroi, Y. Watanabe

Modeling and Designing Heterogeneous Systems

Advances in Concurrency and System Design, Springer-Verlag, 2002

 

F. Balarin, L. Lavagno, C. Passerone, Y. Watanabe

Processes, interfaces and platforms. Embedded software modeling in Metropolis

Proceedings of EMSOFT'02, Grenoble, France, October, 2002

 

J. R. Burch, R. Passerone, A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Using Multiple Levels of Abstractions in Embedded Software Design

Proceedings of the second International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design, June, 2001

 

Polis

 

F. Balarin, M. Chiodo, A. Jurecska, H. Hsieh, A. L. Lavagno, C. Passerone, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, E. Sentovich, K. Suzuki, B. Tabbara

Hardware-Software Co-Design of Embedded Systems: The Polis Approach

Kluwer Academic Press, June 1997.

 

Ptolemy

 

E. A. Lee

Overview of the Ptolemy Project

Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M01/12, University of California, Berkeley, March, 2001

 

Scenic

 

S. Liao, S. Tjiang, R. Gupta

An efficient implementation of reactivity for modeling hardware in the Scenic design environment

Proceeding of the 34th Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, usa, 9-13 June 1997

 

R. K. Gupta, S. V. Liao

Using a programming language for digital system design

IEEE Design and Test of Computers, April-June 1997, vol. 14, (no. 2):72-80

 

CoWare

 

D. Verkest, K. Van Rompaey, I. Bolsens, H. De Man

CoWare - a design environment for heterogeneous hardware/software systems

Design Automation for Embedded Systems, Oct. 1996, vol. 1, (no.4):357-86.

Page 7 of 8 Relevant Publications

 

I. Bolsens, H. J. De Man, B. Lin, K. Van Rompaey, and others

Hardware/software co-design of digital telecommunication systems

Proceedings of the IEEE, March 1997, vol. 85, (no. 3):391-418.