TIE-50506 System Design, 5 cr
Additional information
Note to Finnish students: Kurssin kaikki materiaali on englanniksi, mutta harjoituksissa, tentissä ja muussa kommunikaatiossa voi vastata myös suomeksi riippuen henkilökunnan kielitaidosta. Luennoista voidaan harkinnan varaisesti ja erikseen pyydettäessä järjestää suomenkielisiä tiivistettyjä esityksiä.
Suitable for postgraduate studies.
Person responsible
Timo D. Hämäläinen
Lessons
| Implementation | Period | Person responsible | Requirements |
| TIE-50506 2017-01 | 3 - 4 |
Timo D. Hämäläinen |
Exam and completed exercise work. |
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 | Additional information | Examination material |
| 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 | |
| Lecture slides | TIE-50506 Lecture Notes | Timo D. Hämäläinen | Available as pdf download in POP | Yes |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| TIE-50100 Digitaalisuunnittelu | Mandatory | 1 |
| TIE-50106 Digital Design | Mandatory | 1 |
1 . Either English or Finnish course
Additional information about prerequisites
Basic knowledge of digital design and C/C++ programming is mandatory.
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 |