Course : EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

-System-on-Chip
-Embedded Systems Architecture
-Semiconductor Industry Market
-Foundation IP and Star IP
-Multicore SoC: ST Nomadik Basic Principle
-Automotive Industry
-Trends in Automotive Industry
-Electronic System Level Design for SoC
-Separation of Concerns: Behavior & Communication
-Refinement Methodology & Partitioning
-Models of Computation
-Modeling to FPGA Prototyping
-Design Languages: Overview
-History of SystemC
-Original OSCI Structure

-SystemC Model Development
-Introduction to Data Types
-ArbitraryWidth Bit Type: sc_bv
-Module Ports
-Module Instantiation & Port Connection
-Example of sc_method
-Accessing Ports and Signals
-Example of Signal Binding
-Time Functions
-Example of wait

-ML505 Standard IP Design Overview
-Standard IP Added or Modified
-Software Requirements
-Using the Pre-Built Design
-Add Standard IP to BSB Design
-Extracting the Base Design
-Add Standard IP
-Connect Buses
-IP Configuration
-Connect IP Ports
-Generate Addresses
-Software Configuration
-Software Platform Settings
-Create MFS Image
-Compile Standard IP Design
-Generate the ELF Files
-Generate the Bitstream
-Loading a Bootloop ELF into the Block RAM
-Running the Lwipdemo Application
-Create an ACE File
-References

-Design Methodology
-Y Chart
-System Synthesis
-Bottom-Up Design
-Meet in the Middle Design II
-System Design
-FPGA Design
-Programming Models
-Determinism
-Synchronous Dataflow (SDF)
-State-Based Models
-Process State Machines
-Abstraction Levels
-Transport Layer
-Protocol, Physical Layers
-Specification Model
-Cycle-Accurate Model (CAM)
-Summary and Conclusions

-SystemC – Ongoing & Future Work
-Overview of Statistics Classes
-Parallel & Distributed Simulation
-Block & Stream Ciphers
-Hardware Ciphers
-Mapping onto NoC Topology - Graphics
-Application Model
-Mapping Task Graphs using SCOTCH
-Finite Element Methods: Unstructured
-Mapping onto NoC Topology - Results
-Mapping onto NoC Topology - Graphics
-References - NoC &Application Mapping
-Theoretical Metrics

-Web Resources
-Introduction – Embedded Systems
-Typical MPSoC : a platform with CPUs, GPUs, DSP, …
-Systems on Chip
-Computational
-Interact (sense, manipulate, communicate) with the external world: sensors, actuators
-Reactive: at the speed of the environment
-Heterogeneity: hardware/software blocks, mixed architectures
-Networked: shared, adaptive, sensor networks (buildings, environmental monitoring), smart products, wearable computing
-Flexibility: can run/implement multiple applications sequentially or concurrently - concurrency
-Reprogrammability/reconfigurability: flexibility in upgrading, bug fixing, product differentiation, product customization
-Part of a larger system (system within system)
-Performance and constraints:
–Timing (frequency, latency, throughput)
–Cost, power, area, weight, temperature, reliability

-Algorithmic level
-Register Transfer Level
-Level of description most suitable for synthesis
-Logic (gate) level
-Circuit (transistor) level
-Physical (layout) level
-VHDL Fundamentals
-Naming and Labeling
-Entity declaration – simplified syntax
-Fundamental parts of a library