ITEE Ph.D confirmation seminar: Peter Waldeck, 01.00PM, Thu 06 Mar 2003

Reactive,Reconfigurable, Real-time, Embedded systems

Speaker: Peter Waldeck, ITEE

When: 01.00PM, Thursday 06 Mar 2003

Venue: 78-420

Host: Professor Neil Bergmann

Abstract:

  Conventional microprocessors are well suited to transformational
  systems where sequential instructions are executed, resulting in
  transformation of data.  In embedded real-time systems, timing
  deadlines for multiple tasks are often strict, requiring a system to
  be able to guarantee performance under particular conditions.
  Conventional microprocessors are not well suited to these types of
  conditions, due largely to the sequential nature of execution.
  Reconfigurable systems allowing for true parallel execution of tasks
  are a better match for complex embedded systems. Control-flow
  algorithms are still necessary in these applications, hence the need
  for a software component. Due to the increasing size of SRAM-based
  FPGA's, embedding a microprocessor along with various custom
  hardware functions in a single chip is now possible. The interaction
  of the software with tasks running in hardware is the major focus of
  this research.

  This thesis aims to develop a new hardware/software codesign
  methodology which targets reconfigurable computing implementations
  of real-time systems.  A methodology for verifying the hard
  real-time deadline performance of systems designed using this
  methodology will be developed. This methodology will include the
  capability to allow run-time reconfiguration to implement
  dynamically changing hardware-software partititions. The benefits of
  this methodology will be demonstrated through the design,
  implementation, testing and evaluation of a number of example
  real-time embedded system applications. The effect of different
  hardware-software partitions on system metrics such as program
  execution time, logic area, deadline failures, power consumption and
  design time will be evaluated.

Biography:

(biography unavailable)

Type:

Ph.D confirmation

Contact:

Professor Neil Bergmann, seminar host (n.bergmann@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator) (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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