JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Outcomes:

• To acquire the knowledge on various models of Co-design.
• To explore the interrelationship between Hardware and software in a embedded system
• To acquire the knowledge of firmware development process and tools during Co-design.
• Understand validation methods and adaptability.

UNIT - I

Co- Design Issues: Co- Design Models, Architectures, Languages, A Generic Co-design Methodology. Co- Synthesis Algorithms: Hardware software synthesis algorithms: hardware – software partitioning distributed system co-synthesis.

UNIT - II

Prototyping and Emulation: Prototyping and emulation techniques, prototyping and emulation environments, future developments in emulation and prototyping architecture specialization techniques, system communication infrastructure. Target Architectures: Architecture Specialization techniques, System Communication infrastructure, Target Architecture and Application System classes, Architecture for control dominated systems (8051-Architectures for High performance control), Architecture for Data dominated systems (ADSP21060, TMS320C60), Mixed Systems.

UNIT - III

Compilation Techniques and Tools for Embedded Processor Architectures: Modern embedded architectures, embedded software development needs, compilation technologies, practical consideration in a compiler development environment.

UNIT - IV

Design Specification and Verification: Design, co-design, the co-design computational model, concurrency coordinating concurrent computations, interfacing components, design verification, implementation verification, verification tools, interface verification.

UNIT - V

Languages for System – Level Specification and Design-I: System – level specification, design representation for system level synthesis, system level specification languages, Languages for System – Level Specification and Design-II: Heterogeneous specifications and multi-language co-simulation, the cosyma system and lycos system.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Hardware / Software Co- Design Principles and Practice – Jorgen Staunstrup, Wayne Wolf – Springer, 2009.
• 2. Hardware / Software Co- Design - Giovanni De Micheli, Mariagiovanna Sami,Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
• 3. A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Co-design -Patrick R. Schaumont, Springer, 2010 R19 M.TECH. DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ELECTRONICS M.TECH.- I YEAR- II SEMESTER DIGITAL SYSTEMS & COMPUTER ELECTRONICS