ARTES Courses Spring 1998

These courses were supported by ARTES during spring 98.
Please contact the responsible person for further information.

Hardware/Software Codesign(LiTH)
Start Wednesday 25 March 1998

Hardware/Software Codesign

Prerequisites:

Recommended for:

Graduate students in Computer Science or Computer Systems

Organization:

Mainly lectures given by the teachers, which will be supplemented by seminars prepared by the participants.

The course runs every Wednesday 10-12 from March 25th 98 until may 98.

The course can be supplied to other universities via videoconferencing.
For more information contact the course leader.

Contents:

  • Design of embedded and real-time systems
  • Hardware/software co-specification
  • System modeling
  • Architecture selection
  • Application-specific instruction set processors
  • Embedded signal processing systems
  • Embedded and real-time control systems
  • Hardware/software partitioning
  • Co-synthesis and code-generation techniques
  • Interface analysis and synthesis
  • Co-simulation and co-verification
  • Emulation and prototyping
  • Survey of co-design research
  • Case studies

Goals:

To present techniques for the concurrent design, or co-design, of hardware and software. Special emphasis will be placed upon methods and tools used for the development of embedded systems which are dedicated to specific applications and consist of tightly coupled hardware and software components.

Litterature:

Course book: Software Design for Real-time systems by J.E.Cooling
Course folder including the Rubus material, tutorials and exercise, and documents and lectures for the control part.

Litterature:

G De Micheli and M. Sami: "Hardware/Software Co-Design", and selected research papers.

Schedule:

Every Wednesday 10-12 from 25 March 1998 until may 1998.

Examination:

Term paper and seminar presentation.

Credits:

4p

Leader:

Prof. Zebo Peng and invited lecturers.
Embedded Systems Laboratory
Telephone: +46-13-282067
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linkping University
S-581 83 Linkping
Sweden

Last modified : 1998-07-30
Anders Trne 		Strategic Research