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SUMMARY:COMMSYN: On-Chip Communication Architecture Synthesis for Multi-Pr
 ocessor Systems-on-Chip - Prof Nikil Dutt (University of California\, Irvi
 ne)
DTSTART:20081107T113000Z
DTEND:20081107T123000Z
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CONTACT:Dr George A Constantinides
DESCRIPTION:Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) are becoming ubiquitou
 s in modern embedded systems for emerging convergence applications that de
 mand high performance with low power/energy. The MPSoC's on-chip communica
 tion critically impacts the overall system performance\, power\, cost and 
 reliability.\nConsequently\, the tasks of design\, exploration and impleme
 ntation of on-chip communication architectures have become some of the mos
 t time-consuming activities for system designers in a contemporary MPSoC d
 esign flow. The task of on-chip communication architecture design is furth
 er hampered by a lack of state-of-the-art system-level tools and methodolo
 gies to cope with their increasing complexity. This talk presents the COMM
 SYN framework for automated exploration and synthesis of on-chip communica
 tion architectures in emerging heterogeneous MPSoC applications. We have d
 eveloped fast and accurate simulation and power\nestimation models for rel
 iable on-chip communication architecture exploration early in the design f
 low. These models are used in our framework to make informed decisions dur
 ing synthesis. COMMSYN enables a physical-implementation-aware and memory-
 architecture-aware on-chip communication architecture synthesis\, comprehe
 nsively and automatically generating both the topology and protocol parame
 ters\, while trading off\nmultiple design constraints such as power\, perf
 ormance\, area and cost. Such a multi-faceted synthesis framework accrues 
 many benefits for MPSoC designs such as improved design reliability and qu
 ality\, better complexity management\, reduced system cost and a faster ti
 me-to-market. The talk will also present experimental results on several i
 ndustrial strength applications to demonstrate the utility of the automate
 d and comprehensive synthesis framework for MPSoC designs.\n\n-- Brief Bio
 graphy --\nNikil Dutt is a Chancellor’s Professor of CS and EECS at the 
 University of California\, Irvine. He received his PhD from the University
  of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. His research interests are in em
 bedded systems design automation\, computer architecture\, optimizing comp
 ilers\, system specification techniques\, and distributed embedded systems
 . He has received numerous best paper awards and is coauthor of 7 books. P
 rofessor Dutt  served as Editor-in-Chief of  ACM Transactions on Design Au
 tomation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (2003-2008) and currently serves a
 s Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (TECS)
  and \nof IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (IEEE-TVLSI). \nHe was an ACM 
 SIGDA Distinguished Lecturer during 2001-2002\, and an IEEE Computer Socie
 ty Distinguished Visitor for 2003-2005. He has served on the steering\, or
 ganizing\, and program committees of several \npremier CAD and Embedded Sy
 stem Design conferences and workshops\, and serves or has served on the ad
 visory boards of ACM SIGBED and ACM SIGDA. Professor Dutt is a Fellow of t
 he IEEE\, an ACM Distinguished Scientist\, and recipient of the IFIP Silve
 r Core Award.  
LOCATION:Room 611\, EEE
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