Conference Program    Technical Session

TUESDAY, July 25, 2006, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: 304
TOPIC AREA:  SYSTEM LEVEL AND EMBEDDED
(of special interest to designers)


   SESSION 9
  MPSoC Design Methodologies and Applications
  Chair: Dan Gajski - Univ. of California, Irvine, CA
  Organizers: Peter Marwedel, Tajana Simunic

  Multi-processor systems-on-chip (MPSoC) pose many new challenges to the design of embedded systems. The first two papers highlight design methdologies for two application extremes: a high-performance biomedical monitoring and reconfigurable low-power RFID tags. The next two papers discuss design tradeoffs between P2P vs. NoC interconnect, and between circuit-switching and packet-switching schemes.

  9.1   A Multiprocessor System-on-Chip for Real-Time Biomedical Monitoring and Analysis: Architectural Design Space Exploration
  Speaker(s): Luca Benini - Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  Author(s): Iyad Al Khatib - KTH, Kista, Sweden
Francesco Poletti - Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Davide Bertozzi - Univ. of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Luca Benini - Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Mohamed Bechara - American Univ. of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Hasan Khalifeh - American Univ. of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Axel Jantsch - Royal Institute of Tech., Stockholm, Sweden
Rustam Nabiev - Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden
  9.2  An Automated, Reconfigurable, Low-Power RFID Tag
  Speaker(s): Alex K. Jones - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  Author(s): Alex K. Jones - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Raymond R. Hoare - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Swapna R. Dontharaju - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Shenchih Tung - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ralph Sprang - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Josh Fazekas - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
James T. Cain - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Marlin H. Mickle - Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  9.3  Design Space Exploration and Prototyping for On-Chip Multimedia Applications
  Speaker(s): Hyung Gyu Lee - Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea
  Author(s): Hyung Gyu Lee - Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Umit Y. Ogras - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Naehyuck Chang - Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Radu Marculescu - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
  9.4  Evaluation and Design Tradeoffs Between Circuit-Switched and Packet-Switched NoCs for Application-Specific SoCs
  Speaker(s): Kuei-Chung Chang - National Chung Cheng Univ., Chia-Yi, Taiwan
  Author(s): Kuei-Chung Chang - National Chung Cheng Univ., Chia-Yi, Taiwan
Jih-Sheng Shen - National Chung Cheng Univ., Chia-Yi, Taiwan
Tien-Fu Chen - National Chung Cheng Univ., Chia-Yi , Taiwan