COmplexity Management in Embedded Tera SystemsWorkshop II: Challenges in embedded system design: involvment of SMEs in designing complex systems
November, 24 - 2010
The event will take place on November, 24 2010 (Wednesday) at 10:30 in room SI-003, Campus Lugano, USI. The Workshop will consist of presentations by:- Prof. G. De Micheli (EPFL), Switzerland.
- Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
- Prof. M. Sami, scientific director of ALaRI Institute, USI, Lugano (as Moderator).
- Sebastiano Pomata, University of Cagliary, Italy.
- Giovanni Mariani, ALaRI - USI, Switzerland.
Workshop Description
For many applications, complexity of embedded systems has been steadily increasing in the past ten years, leading to new challenges when designing hardware and software. Innovative methodologies for reaching optimal solutions have been proposed: compared to the &ldquo monolithic &rdquo design tool-chain traditionally offered by the big EDA providers, flexible frameworks appear to offer attractive possibilities, in particular for the SMEs that increasingly face the design challenge. In fact, two aspects deserve discussing:
- How can SMEs fit as providers of tools in the new design environment? Under what conditions could their offer be meaningful and successful?
- As Embedded Systems designers, SMEs face a number of constraints - from cost to design time to strict customer requirements - that a-priori limit their design freedom. How is it possible to meet such constraints and yet propose innovation and optimization?
Workshop I: The challenge of complexity for new generation systems
September, 23 - 2009
The event was on September, 23 2009 (Wednesday) at 14:00 in Auditorium, Campus Lugano, USI. At the round table participated:- Prof. C. Alippi from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
- Prof. M. Pezzè USI, Faculty of Informatics' dean, Lugano.
- Prof. M. Sami, scientific director of ALaRI Institute, USI, Lugano (as Moderator).s
Workshop Description
Systems envisioned within the Nano-Tera framework are quite often intrinsically very complex: beyond that, they are in most instances (as made clear in the Nano-Tera Technical Scope) devised to interact with the physical world, facing challenges that go from the modelling aspects of the phenomena they should deal with to intrinsic non-determinism of such phenomena. This first workshop aims at preparing a strong basis, considering different viewpoints and presenting challenges and solutions of specific relevance to Nano-Tera: on such background one can envision creating in the future more specialized schools targeting, e.g., the challenges of software for complex distributed systems or of reliability.
