Final Activity Report Summary - DACMA (Design Methodologies and Advanced Designs for Communication and Multimedia Applications)
One of the missing issues at universities today is the provision of access to large application drivers and long term support and consolidation of old research results. This information is available at companies; however universities are not prepared to provide it to academic groups. This is especially true for the system design area, where many different issues have to be tackled simultaneously in order to provide a real solution for industrial challenges in the coming years.
The creation of new application opportunities in the information technology (IT) context involves the study and background training in the next generation of intelligent, mobile user terminals that form the access to the digital highway. In addition, the creation of opportunities involves Quos scalable multimedia data processing with new data compression schemes, along with their impaction implementation strategies including graceful degradation and low-power, high-performance architecture design. The application domains are drivers for the definition and introduction of a systematic system design methodology to build a sock or to map a given application to a programmable, configurable heterogeneous platform, with heavily reduced time to market at low system cost and power.
The research and development and associated training are focussing on:
1. the definition of a systematic design flow that starts from a concurrent and dynamic task specification with operations orchestration (OO) support
2. the development of analysis, exploration and refinement techniques and tools to support system level trade-offs involving mapping abstract data types into memory architectures and controllers, augmented with managing the control flow and the task concurrency in real time systems
3. the development of synthesis techniques to map applications to dynamic reconfigurable processor platforms
4. the development of compiler techniques to map data-dominated system-level specifications into highly energy-efficient code and supporting analogue or digital co-design trade-offs at system level.
The DACMA project provided an efficient way to offer universities access to these technologies.
The creation of new application opportunities in the information technology (IT) context involves the study and background training in the next generation of intelligent, mobile user terminals that form the access to the digital highway. In addition, the creation of opportunities involves Quos scalable multimedia data processing with new data compression schemes, along with their impaction implementation strategies including graceful degradation and low-power, high-performance architecture design. The application domains are drivers for the definition and introduction of a systematic system design methodology to build a sock or to map a given application to a programmable, configurable heterogeneous platform, with heavily reduced time to market at low system cost and power.
The research and development and associated training are focussing on:
1. the definition of a systematic design flow that starts from a concurrent and dynamic task specification with operations orchestration (OO) support
2. the development of analysis, exploration and refinement techniques and tools to support system level trade-offs involving mapping abstract data types into memory architectures and controllers, augmented with managing the control flow and the task concurrency in real time systems
3. the development of synthesis techniques to map applications to dynamic reconfigurable processor platforms
4. the development of compiler techniques to map data-dominated system-level specifications into highly energy-efficient code and supporting analogue or digital co-design trade-offs at system level.
The DACMA project provided an efficient way to offer universities access to these technologies.