AP7004 HARDWARE SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN - ANNA UNIV PG 1ST SEM SYLLABUS REG 2013

ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI REGULATIONS - 2013 M.E. APPLIED ELECTRONICS AP7004 HARDWARE SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN COURSE OBJECTIVES:  To acquire the knowledge about system specification and modeling.  To learn the formulation of partitioning  To analyze about co-synthesis.  To study the different technical aspects about prototyping and emulation.  To formulate the design specification and validate its functionality by simulation. UNIT I SYSTEM SPECIFICATION AND MODELLING Embedded Systems , Hardware/Software Co-Design , Co-Design for System Specification and Modelling , Co-Design for Heterogeneous Implementation - Processor Synthesis , Single-Processor Architectures with one ASIC , Single-Processor Architectures with many ASICs, Multi-Processor Architectures , Comparison of Co-Design Approaches , Models of Computation ,Requirements for Embedded System Specification. UNIT II HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PARTITIONING The Hardware/Software Partitioning Problem, Hardware-Software Cost Estimation, Generation of the Partitioning Graph , Formulation of the HW/SW Partitioning Problem , Optimization , HW/SW Partitioning based on Heuristic Scheduling, HW/SW Partitioning based on Genetic Algorithms . UNIT III HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CO-SYNTHESIS The Co-Synthesis Problem, State-Transition Graph, Refinement and Controller Generation, Distributed System Co-Synthesis UNIT IV PROTOTYPING AND EMULATION Introduction, Prototyping and Emulation Techniques , Prototyping and Emulation Environments ,Future Developments in Emulation and Prototyping ,Target Architecture- Architecture Specialization Techniques ,System Communication Infrastructure, Target Architectures and Application System Classes, Architectures for Control-Dominated Systems, Architectures for Data-Dominated Systems ,Mixed Systems and Less Specialized Systems UNIT V DESIGN SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION Concurrency, Coordinating Concurrent Computations, Interfacing Components, Verification , Languages for System-Level Specification and Design System-Level Specification ,Design Representation for System Level Synthesis, System Level Specification Languages, Heterogeneous Specification and Multi-Language Cosimulation TOTAL:45 PERIODS REFERENCES: 1. Ralf Niemann , "Hardware/Software Co-Design for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Systems", Kluwer Academic Pub, 1998. 2. Jorgen Staunstrup , Wayne Wolf ,"Hardware/Software Co-Design: Principles and Practice" , Kluwer Academic Pub,1997. 3. Giovanni De Micheli , Rolf Ernst Morgon," Reading in Hardware/Software Co-Design " Kaufmann Publishers,2001.

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