7.8 Critical Research Areas Driven by Industry Transformations

Date: Wednesday 11 March 2015
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Location / Room: Salle Lesdiguières

Organiser:
John Zhao, MathWorks, US

Moderator:
Pieter J. Mosterman, MathWorks, US

Panelists:
Koen Bertels, Delft University of Technology, NL
Axel Jantsch, Vienna University of Technology, AT
Ahmed Jerraya, CEA-Leti, FR
Ian O’Connor, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, FR
Joseph Sifakis, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, CH

Increasing demands of electrification arise from connected vehicles, medical devices, smart-grid and microgrid technologies, and the IoT evolution of devices into smart, interconnected systems. Those systems must meet market requirements for not only more sophisticated functionality, but also improved performance and robustness. As a result, companies need to transform how they design, analyze, implement, and verify their systems. At the same time, embedded-system platforms have become increasingly diverse combinations of digital/analog electronics and software, ranging from FPGA/ARM platforms (e.g,. Xilinx Zynq and Altera SoC) to a diverse range of heterogeneous manycore systems.

To help companies leverage these trends in their product and system development, EDA and embedded-system researchers are called upon to focus their research on new kinds of issues that arise.  This panel will explore the key research needs and opportunities that come from the transformations that industries must embrace.