Tutorial
T4: Disciplined Design of System-on-Chip
Sunday, 19 June 2005, 13:00-16:30 Room: Seminar 2
Gerhard Fettweis and Heinrich Meyr
"Disciplined Design of System-on-Chip"
Mission
To enable engineering management and engineering to understand
- Vision and roadmap of next generation networks
- Wireless communications: what are the engineering challenges
- Protocols
- Software
- Firmware
- Hardware (analog & digital)
- Tools
Goal: Result oriented fast product development
- Understanding the complexity
- Putting the right team & design methodology in place
Content
- From ASIC to Application Specific Programmable Platform Development
- The need for a disciplined approach
- Disciplined Benchmarking
- Identify the Architectural Space
- Efficiently Describe and Evalute Prog´rammable Platforms
- Explore the Design Space
- Deploy the Programmable Platform
- Economic Considerations
- Providing a Design Environment for Evaluation and Implementation of Platforms
- Design flow
- Tooling (Algorithm design,Simulator, compiler, system integration etc)
- Architecture for Wireless PHY
- Spatial and temporal Mapping of algorithms onto the platform
- Energy Efficiency vs. Flexibility trade-off and optimization
- Design and implementation Efficiency
- Design reuse
- Putting it together
- Case studies
- Putting a team together
- Do’s and Don’ts
- Key point summary
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