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Talk Abstract:

The heterogeneous and distributed nature of man

y emerging classes of
embedded applications adds a new level of design
complexity requiring the
deployment of tightly-interactive, concurre

nt processes on networked
platform architectures.  While the des

ign of a single component is important,
the critical challenges in th

e realization of a system-on-chip or a
distributed embedded system lie
in the integration of the components.  In
addressing these chal

lenges we sustain that communication plays an
increasingly central rol

e both at design time and run time.  We present a
communication-

based system-level design methodology that simplifies the
integrated d

esign and validation of embedded platform architectures while
enabling
important properties like modularity, scalability, flexibility, and
reusability.  In particular, we argue how effective design space e

xploration
can be achieved through the decoupling of the design of the
computational
elements and the synthesis of the communication infrast

ructure.  For the latter
we present recent results on the design
and optimization of networks-on-chip.

Speaker Bio:

Luca Carlon

i is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia
University
in the City of New York.  He holds a Laurea Degree Summa cum Laudein Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, and
the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci

osium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS).