System Design, 5 cr

Core content

• Introduction to embedded, multi-processor system-on-chip (SoC) technologies.
• Importance of design reuse and application portability between HW and SW implementations.
• Principles of model based design with abstraction and orthogonalization of concerns.
• Layered system model and interfaces.
• Related HW and SW standards and best practises.
• Hands-on exercise work implementing a parallel, real-time application on heterogeneous HW/SW platform

Complementary knowledge

• International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
• Modularization of HW and SW components.
• Y-model based design process. Specification, synthesis, verification.
• Hardware dependent software, APIs, RTOS
• IP-XACT, OCP-IP, MCAPI, POSIX, SystemC
• Performance estimation, measurement, analysis and optimization.

Specialist knowledge

• Complexity of HW and SW and their trends
• XML-based metadata for HW/SW component integration.
• Design automation and tools. Management of configurations.
• Driver implementation.
• Embedded Linux
• Development tools chosen for the course implementation.