CONVENED FRIDAY June 13, 9:00am - 5:00pm | 210CD
FRIDAY TUTORIAL: #6 - System Level Design for Embedded Systems
Organizer: Mike Woodward - The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA
System-level design offers the prospect of improving the productivity and quality of embedded systems development and this tutorial provides guidance and insight on how this can be achieved in practice.
The tutorial provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of system-level design techniques for high-productivity hardware and software embedded systems development. The emphasis is on proven design techniques and technologies that can be applied to existing design processes. Our aim is for attendees to learn about practices and techniques they can apply immediately and to give a view of the directions the industry is taking for the longer term.
We will examine the use and impact of system-level design on every stage of the design process, from conception through to implementation. Techniques to be covered will include multi-domain simulation, rapid-prototyping techniques, hardware deployment, platform dependent and independent design, and the inclusion of implementation effects in high-level models.
The speakers all have substantial industry experience gathered from different parts of the embedded systems industry. They will present case studies based on their experience with using system-level design in the field.
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli holds the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. He is the Chief Technology Adviser of Cadence. He is an author of over 800 papers and 15 books in the area of electronic system and IC design tools and methodologies, large-scale systems, and embedded controllers. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1982 and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1998.
Mike Woodward has been active in the communications and semiconductor industries for many years. He has degrees in physics and engineering and started his career researching the microwave properties of III-V quantum-well semiconductors. Mike wrote the key piece of software that runs the transmission infrastructure for the UK’s commercial digital audio broadcasting transmission network, a project that was awarded the British Computer Society’s IT Award for Excellence in 2000. He developed audio processing algorithms which are used in consumer radio receivers and was awarded patents for this technology. He also worked on a UMTS simulation system which was one of EDN magazine’s ‘Hot 100’ products and on a HSDPA implementation on a novel processor. His key areas of expertise are real-time systems, communications systems, and systems design. Mike has published papers on communications systems, systems design, and embedded software.
Stephen Koffman received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1997. Since then he has worked for Boeing in the areas of controls system design, estimation theory, dynamic system modeling and spacecraft missions. He worked 13 spacecraft launches and has designs in 3 separate product lines. He leads the Guidance, Navigation, & Control department's common tools effort and works on process improvement in the area of flight code. Stephen holds a patent for satellite control using gimbaled ion thrusters. He was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference and is an instructor for UCLA Extension.
Jim Hwang holds the title of Director, DSP Engineering at Xilinx, Inc., where he is chief architect of the Xilinx System Generator for DSP, and oversees the development of DSP intellectual property cores, Xilinx Core Generator, and the AccelDSP MATLAB synthesis tool. He currently serves on the Program Committee of the International Conference of Field-Programmable Technology (FPT) and the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995, holds over 20 patents, and has published papers in the areas of physical design, module generation, and system level design.
Dr Chris Dick is the DSP Chief Scientist, a Distinguished Engineer, and Manager of the Advance Systems Technology Group at Xilinx Inc. Dr Dick joined Xilinx in 1997 from La Trobe University where he was a professor for 13 years. Chris has over 100 journal and conference publications and has been an invited speaker at many international symposiums. Chris’ research interests are in the areas of fast signal processing algorithms, digital communications, software defined radio, hardware architectures for real-time signal processing, parallel computing, interconnection networks for parallel processors, and the use of FPGAs for custom computing machines and signal processing.
Chris Dick - Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA
Jim Hwang - Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA
Stephen Koffman - Boeing, El Segundo, CA
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA