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