Lecture: Advanced Topics in Embedded Systems

Description

This lecture discusses current topics and trends in embedded system research with special focus on design, analysis and verification of embedded systems and Systems-on-Chip. The lecture starts with an introduction into embedded systems architectures and electronic system level design. Then, the latest developments in analysis of non-functional properties like timing, power dissipation, and energy consumption are discussed. The lesson on verification addresses formal, semi-formal and dynamic techniques and give insights into run-time verification using different languages for formal property specification. The lecture finally covers advanced semiconductor technologies as well as reliability and functional safety aspects.

• Introduction
• Embedded and reconfigurable architectures
• Fast timing analysis and simulation
• Power, energy and thermal analysis
• Cyber-physical systems – sensors, actors and environment in the loop
• Design space exploration
• Formal, semi-formal and run-time verification
• Advanced semiconductor technologies
• Reliability and functional safety