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RTiS 2001 Topic 4

System Design: Towards System-on-Chip

The rapid development of microelectronics technology has led to the possibility of integrating an entire system on a single chip, consisting of millions of transistors. This development has, however, brought with it also enormous challenges, one of which is the need for advanced design methodology and tools to handle the complexity and heterogeneity of systems built on silicon. This session will address the challenges, the research activities, and the current industrial practice in the design of SoC for real-time applications.

The session will include the following presentations as well as a panel discussion involving all speakers.

What are the challenges for the industrial designers?

Stefan Sjöholm, ABB/MDH
This talk will address the main problems facing the industry designers and some of the current industrial practice. It will present in particular a top-down design methodology and its implication in an industrial design environment.

Mini-tutorial: Codesign of Embedded Systems: Where are we now?

Petru Eles, LiTH
Efficient embedded systems cannot be designed today without considering together both the hardware infrastructure and the software related issues. This mini-tutorial will identify the most important current trends and topics in the area of hardware/software co-design of embedded systems. It starts by shortly presenting the evolution of the area from the early 90's and then shows how the growing complexity of embedded systems and increasing requirements have changed several of the initial assumptions and influenced research directions.

The Design of a Multiprocessor SoC

Lennart Lindh, MDH
This talk will present the design and implementation of a multiprocessor SoC. It will discuss a generic platform generator as a way to reduce time-to-market and verification time.

Socware: the Swedish National System-on-Chip Initiatives

Zebo Peng , LiTH
This talk will present the Swedish national program on Socware (System-on-chip-ware), a five-year joint effort by several universities (LiTH, KTH and LTH) and institutes (Acreo) as well as industry from Sweden and abroad. The main objective of Socware is to build up competence via research and education in the design of SoC, especially for wireless and broadband communications.