1. Review the challenges of software dominated, multi processor, embedded systems development and the need to embrace innovative ways to optimize the architecture for key constraints such as low power.
2. Learn how Virtual System Prototype (VSP) driven development makes it easier to optimize complex SoC designs while also improving time to market and quality
3. Explore how to construct a VSP with general purpose and/or digital signal processor + interconnect fabric and then learn how this is used to:
- Experiment with candidate architectures with respect to architectural constraints.
-Understand how to automatically create empirical data to be used to optimize SoC designs
- Experience how the VSP can go on to be used as a golden reference model for the concurrent development of software and hardware