software is a growing part of the embedded systems industry in a range of applications. This session features presenters from automotive, wireless, and medical devices companies to share their experiences in developin...
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(纸本)9781581137422
software is a growing part of the embedded systems industry in a range of applications. This session features presenters from automotive, wireless, and medical devices companies to share their experiences in developing software for todays cutting edge applications.
Over the last 15 years we have seen and helped the evolution of design from behavioral modeling to hardware/software co-design, to today's system-level design. Arguably, many of the research efforts on behavioral ...
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(纸本)9781581137422
Over the last 15 years we have seen and helped the evolution of design from behavioral modeling to hardware/software co-design, to today's system-level design. Arguably, many of the research efforts on behavioral synthesis, hardware / software co-design, co-simulation etc. have made their way into successful commercial tools, while others went no further than a conference paper. As we continue and expand system-level research with new approaches opening exciting new research avenues, we have an obligation to look back at our successes and failures. Then looking towards the future, we must answer the question: are we solving the right problems with the right solutions at the right time, or should we go back to the drawing board and think of brand new research *** panel will bring together panelists experienced in various aspects of system-level design who will present different views on what this community has achieved over the last 15 years and draw a roadmap for future research.
systems-on-chip (SoC) continue to be very complex to design and verify, despite extensive component reuse. Although reusable components are pre-designed and pre-verified, when they are assembled in an SoC there is no ...
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(纸本)9781581137422
systems-on-chip (SoC) continue to be very complex to design and verify, despite extensive component reuse. Although reusable components are pre-designed and pre-verified, when they are assembled in an SoC there is no guarantee that the whole system will behave as expected from a performance, cost and integration point of view. In many cases this is because of faulty early design decisions regarding the architecture, core selection, floorplanning, etc. This paper presents a system for early analysis of SoCs which helps designers make early design decisions regarding performance, area, timing and power; and allows them to quickly evaluate cross-domain effects, such as the effect that an architectural decision may have on the performance and chip area.
Video encoders are an important IP block in mobile multimedia systems. In this paper, we describe a low-cost low-power multi-standard (MPEG4, JPEG, and H.263) video/image encoder. The low-cost and low-power aspects ar...
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(纸本)9781581137422
Video encoders are an important IP block in mobile multimedia systems. In this paper, we describe a low-cost low-power multi-standard (MPEG4, JPEG, and H.263) video/image encoder. The low-cost and low-power aspects are achieved by the right choice of algorithms and architectures. In the algorithm front, an embedded compression technique for reducing the size of loop memory has enabled a single-chip low-cost realization of the encoder. In the architectural front, an efficient hardware-software partitioning has contributed to the design of a low-power encoder. Further, the hardware components that accelerate the kernels of encoding are implemented as application specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) thereby providing flexibility to address multi-standard encoding. The power and area estimates for the encoder for [email protected] in 0.18um CMOS technology are 30mW and 20mm2 respectively including the loop memory.
CAD vendors are always faced with the question of what tools to develop and how much can they charge for them. Designers on the other hand have real problems to solve and before investing in tools they have to assess ...
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(纸本)9781581137422
CAD vendors are always faced with the question of what tools to develop and how much can they charge for them. Designers on the other hand have real problems to solve and before investing in tools they have to assess how much a given tool will actually save them. CAD vendors and designers have to estimate the savings in design time and cost that a tool may provide and compare that with the existing way of doing things, to determine if the investment in tool creation is justified. For example, if a misguided architectural decision causes weeks of delay because of missing performance targets, then a tool for early architectural analysis may be very valuable. system-level design poses exactly these types of questions because it involves optimizations and analyses across many domains, from software, to architecture, to cycle-time, and is done very early in the design cycle where it has a profound *** much improvement in productivity and overall design quality (e.g., timing, area, and power) can be attained by current and future generations of system-level tools? If designers believe such improvements can be obtained, are they prepared to pay the appropriate price for the tools? Or do system-level CAD vendors still need to make believers out of designers?This panel will bring together industry experts to review the current and future industry needs for system-level design technologies as well as discuss how much saving in design time and cost such tools can hope to achieve and whether the designers believe the price is right for the return they can get.
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