- Docente: Luca Benini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Automation Engineering (cod. 8891)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Computer Engineering (cod. 0937)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronic Engineering (cod. 0934)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Telecommunications Engineering (cod. 9205)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering (cod. 9238)
Learning outcomes
The main goal of the class is to provide an overview on the methods for designing, validating and verifying complex embedded electronic systems. The importance of software components in virtually all electronic systems will be emphasized. Thus, special focus will be given to hardware-software co-design methods and tools. The most common Hw-Sw co-design approaches used in industry (telecom, automotive, industrial automation) will be surveyed in details. At the end of the course students have a good insight of embedded systems, their technologies and a deep understanding of Hw-Sw co-design aspects.
Course contents
Part 1 – System-on-chip (SoC) hardware design – fundamental concepts exemplified on reconfigurable SoCs (Xilinx Zynq)
- Hardware design Languages (HDLs) and their use to specify and implement combinational and sequential circuits. The main concepts are exemplified
though the use of the SystemVerilog HDL - Hardware design flow and tools – Synthesis, simulation, verification. The main concepts are illustrated with examples using commercial electronic design automation (EDA) tools
- IP-based design – building a design from pre-designed components.
- Microcontroller architecture based on the ARM Cortex M family. Microcontroller peripherals. Microcontroller programming for maximum Energy efficiency
- Analog and Digital sensor interfaces, MEMS sensors – Smart sensors – Wireless
sensor Networks. System power management
- Multicore architectures and their use in energy efficient embedded Systems with examples from consumer and industrial market segments based on the ARMv8 instruction set (
Cortex A family). - Programming shared memory multicore systems using the OpenMP programming model – with practical examples based on multicore development boards (e.g. Tega's Jetson)
Readings/Bibliography
See course web site
Teaching methods
See course web site
Assessment methods
Written exam and Oral exam
Oral Exam
Project activity and oral discussion
Teaching tools
See course web Site
Links to further information
http://courses.eees.dei.unibo.it/MPHSENG/
Office hours
See the website of Luca Benini