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Workshop Advance System Design in Practice - June 21-23, 2004 - Paris, France

SYDIC-Training

The ASDP Workshop offers the in-depth knowledge in tree domains of system design: SystemC-based design, embedded systems design and system verification and test.

Day 1: Going for System Design – SystemC in Practice, will cover Transaction-Level Modeling, SystemC-specific verification and debugging techniques and examples of HW/SW co-simulation techniques.

Day 2: Embedded Systems Design, where the methods of co-design of tightly coupled HW and SW components will be addressed.

Day 3: System Verification & Test, will focus on methods and techniques of efficient verification of complex electronic systems composed of HW and SW components.

Social event: You will be welcomed for dinner on June 22nd at 20:00 in the restaurant "Chez Francis" - 7, place de l'Alma - 75008 PARIS.

Agenda (PDF format)

Registration form (PDF format)

Agenda (Slides, PDF format)

The new formulae of an extended 3-days modular workshop offers to the participants clear advantages:
• Concise form to provide knowledge in condensed and efficient way
• Focused subjects
• Content practically oriented: concrete examples of application, industrially proven expertise
• Modularity: participants can select one or more tracks according to their interest

Target audience
• Designers and engineers interested in acquire specific knowledge in system design
• Managers interested in getting in-depth overview of design challenges in SystemC based design, embedded systems design and verification

The ECSI Institute provides access to the advanced courses and workshops on system design methods developed within SYDIC-Training project by best-in-class research and industry organisations: IMEC, Institute for System Level Integration, Linköping University and Technische Universität München and EDA providers (Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics). These partners unite together to cooperate on provision of advanced training services in system design that are not available elsewhere and that can be customised to particular industry needs.

The workshop is developed within the IST project SYDIC-Training IST-2001-35100.

Day 1 -
Going for System Design –
SystemC in Practice

Day 2
Embedded Systems Design

Day 3
System Verification & Test

Objectives
The objective of this one day course is to provide an insight into SystemC, its features and extensions. Further on applications and examples demonstrate how to face SystemC design problems in practice and where to apply SystemC.

Target Audience
System level and design engineers interested in evolving the design process from a software model to a design implementation.

Content
• Features and Application of SystemC (TUM)
• TLM design guidelines (CDN)
• Debugging of SystemC designs (CDN)
• Verification Techniques in and with SystemC (CDN)
• Example of a hardware/software co-simulation technique (TUM)
• Applied SystemC for system design automation (IMEC)
• ISS integration methodology to SystemC (CDN)

Objective
The objective of this session is to present techniques for the design of embedded systems. Special emphasis will be placed upon methods used for the development of embedded systems during the early design stages. We will also cover the low power optimization problem for embedded system architectures.

Target Audience
Designers, engineers and managers interested in system-level design issues for embedded systems, especially hardware/software codesign.

Content
• System-Level Design Techniques (LIU)
- Design of embedded systems
- Architectures and platforms for embedded systems
- Modeling techniques
- Performance analysis and co-simulation
- Software synthesis and code generation
• Low Power Optimization (TUM)
- Motivation for low power optimization
- Sources for power consumption
- General mechanisms for power optimization
-Selected low power techniques

Objectives
Often overlooked System Verification and Test are critical stages for design of semiconductor-based products. Scientifically demanding and rewarding disciplines they contribute directly to the drive to achieve lower cost higher quality manufacture in an environment of growing design complexity and shrinking time-to-market demands.

Target Audience
Design, Test and Product Engineers as well as Software Engineers wanting to expand their knowledge of basic verification and test

Content
• What constitutes verification, its purpose (ISLI)
• Interdependence of and independence of design and verification (ISLI)
• Overview of practical assertion based verification (Mentor Graphics)
• Methodologies and practical aspects of Test with ATE equipment (ISLI)
• Economic and business implications of different test protocols (ISLI)
• Test program development and debug (ISLI)

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