Course Catalog 2013-2014
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Course Catalog 2013-2014

TIE-50506 System Design, 5 cr

Additional information

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Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Timo Hämäläinen

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
 2 h/week
 2 h/week
+2 h/week
+2 h/week


 


 


 
TIE-50506 2013-01 Thursday 8 - 12, TB224

Requirements

Exam and completed exercise work.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

More information is available at course's web page.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student knows the design process of complex embedded systems including several processors, HW IP-blocks, SW platform components and SW applications with real-time constraints. In the exercise work, students practice HW/SW co-design and system integration, verification, and prototyping. Students implement a small video encoding system on FPGA. The first step is creating a behavioral model that is simulated on PC. From it, a set of implementations are created on FPGA board by varying the number of processors and HW IP-blocks. Performance and costs are analysed for the implementations. All this gives a realistic embedded product development experience.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Introduction to embedded, multi-processor system-on-chip (SoC) technologies.  International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)  Complexity of HW and SW and their trends 
2. Importance of design reuse and application portability between HW and SW implementations.  Modularization of HW and SW components.   XML-based metadata for HW/SW component integration. 
3. Principles of model based design with abstraction and orthogonalization of concerns.   Y-model based design process. Specification, synthesis, verification.  Design automation and tools. Management of configurations. 
4. Layered system model and interfaces.  Hardware dependent software, APIs, RTOS  Driver implementation. 
5. Related HW and SW standards and best practises.  IP-XACT, OCP-IP, MCAPI, POSIX, SystemC  Embedded Linux, uC/OS-II, UML MARTE 
6. Hands-on exercise work implementing a parallel, real-time application on heterogeneous HW/SW platform  Performance estimation, measurement, analysis and optimization.  Development tools chosen for the course implementation. 

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Embedded System Design - Modeling, Synthesis and Verification   Daniel G. Gajski et al   ISBN 978-1-4419-0504-8     Available as pdf download from tut.fi domain   Yes    English  
Lecture slides   TIE-50506 Lecture Notes   Timo D. Hämäläinen       Available as pdf download in POP   Yes    English  

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
TIE-50100 Digitaalisuunnittelu Mandatory   1
TST-01100 Johdanto tietotekniikkaan Mandatory   1

1 . Suoritettava jompikumpi.

Additional information about prerequisites
Basic knowledge of digital design, and VHDL and C/C++ programming is mandatory.

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
TIE-50506 System Design, 5 cr TKT-2431 SoC Design, 5 cr  
TIE-50506 System Design, 5 cr TKT-2437 SoC Design, 5 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
TIE-50506 2013-01        

Last modified26.08.2013