Date: Thursday 12 March 2015
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Location / Room: Stendhal
Organisers:
Jeronimo Castrillon, Technische Universität Dresden, DE
Rainer Leupers, RWTH Aachen, DE
Chair:
Norbert Wehn, University of Kaiserslautern, DE
Co-Chair:
Ayse K. Coskun, Boston University, US
Multi-processor systems have been in wide use for about ten years. During this time, several programming models have appeared in different domains. In particular, the academic community has been active in devising methods, often model-driven, to program heterogeneous embedded multi-processor platforms. This session analyzes the current standing from different perspectives, namely, from researchers working in methods in academia, from companies offering solutions and from companies requiring solutions.
| Time | Label | Presentation Title Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | 11.3.1 | 5% OR 5X? THE PERFORMANCE GAP IN SIMD OPTIMIZATION, AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS Speaker: Ben Juurlink, TU Berlin, DE |
| 14:15 | 11.3.2 | MODEL-BASED DESIGN OF REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Speaker: Lothar Thiele, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), CH |
| 14:30 | 11.3.3 | PROGRAMMING ADAPTIVE AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT MANY-CORES Speaker: Jeronimo Castrillon, Technische Universität Dresden, DE |
| 14:45 | 11.3.4 | CONFIDENCE IN THE USE OF SOFTWARE TOOLS ACCORDING TO THE ISO 26262 IN AUTOMOTIVE MULTICORE APPLICATIONS Speaker: Ralph Jessenberger, BeOne Frankfurt GmbH, DE |
| 15:00 | 11.3.5 | AUTOMOTIVE MULTICORE MICROCONTROLLER SIMULATION, DEBUGGING AND ANALYSIS USING VIRTUAL PROTOTYPES Speaker: Victor Reyes, Synopsys Inc., US Abstract As the amount of software in the car continues growing, automotive companies have shifted to multicore microcontroller architectures as a way to contain both the number of ECUs (cost) and their power consumption (mileage). New multicore microcontrollers can deliver more performance and hence allow mapping more functions on it. At the same time, this extra performance is delivered at clock frequencies comparable to previous generations, hence keeping the more and more important power consumption under control. New challenges both from functional and performance angles are introduced when porting an existing software stack to a new multicore microcontroller architecture. From the functional aspect, new bugs such as race conditions, data coherence, etc are introduced. From the performance angle, different functions running on different cores do still share all other hardware resources, such as memories, on-chip busses and peripherals, which may introduce significant jitter on the software execution. Finding the appropriate configuration of such hardware resources that provides sufficient performance in all conditions is a daunting task. This is all very important especially for safety critical applications where "freedom of interference" must be ensured to achieve certification. In this presentation we will discuss, how multicore microcontroller simulation models (a.k.a. virtual prototypes) are used nowadays throughout the Automotive Supply chain, from Semiconductor companies, to Tier1 and to OEMs, to deal with the challenges of debugging and analyzing software on multicore architectures. |
| 15:15 | 11.3.6 | APPLYING MULTICORE COMPILER RESEARCH INTO INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES: AN EARLY EXPERIENCE REPORT Speaker: Weihua Sheng, Silexica Software Solutions GmbH, DE |
| 15:30 | End of session Coffee Break in Exhibition Area Coffee Break in Exhibition AreaOn all conference days (Tuesday to Thursday), coffee and tea will be served during the coffee breaks at the below-mentioned times in the exhibition area. Lunch BreakOn Tuesday and Wednesday, lunch boxes will be served in front of the session room Salle Oisans and in the exhibition area for fully registered delegates (a voucher will be given upon registration on-site). On Thursday, lunch will be served in Room Les Ecrins (for fully registered conference delegates only). Tuesday, March 10, 2015Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Lunch Break 13:00 - 14:30; Keynote session from 13:20 - 14:20 (Room Oisans) sponsored by Mentor Graphics Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Wednesday, March 11, 2015Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:30, Keynote lectures from 12:50 - 14:20 (Room Oisans) Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Thursday, March 12, 2015Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00, Keynote lecture from 13:20 - 13:50 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00 |