TITLE 
MPSoC Design Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Terminals

ABSTRACT 
Mobile embedded devices such as multi-standard, multimedia terminals demand
for ever-increasing performance and energy efficiency. Simultaneously, a
high degree of flexibility and programmability is required due to increasing
software complexity and fast changing protocol and codec standards. This
leads to the concept of heterogeneous MPSoC (multi-processor system-on-chip)
platforms. Efficient MPSoC design requires new classes of electronic
system-level (ESL) design automation tools, some of which will be presented
in this tutorial. After a brief discussion of the LISA language based 
embedded processor design methodology, we discuss a MPSoC exploration 
technology based on virtual processing units (VPUs) that allows for fast 
SW task mapping and communication architecture optimization and also enables 
a direct path to HW implementation. Next, we focus on virtual platforms 
as a novel enabling technology for efficient ESL design and embedded 
SW implementation. The key challenge here is to achieve high simulation 
speed and sufficient accuracy at the same time. Finally, we address the 
problem of MPSoC programming, including parallelization of sequential 
application code and efficient spatial and temporal mapping of tasks to 
processing elements. 

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Rainer Leupers received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science with
honors from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1992 and 1997. From
1997-2001 he was the chief engineer at the Embedded Systems chair at the
University of Dortmund. During 1999-2001 he was also a team leader at ICD,
where he headed industrial design service projects. In 2002, Dr. Leupers
joined RWTH Aachen University as a professor for Software for Systems on
Silicon. His research and teaching activities comprise software development
tools, processor architectures, and electronic design automation for
embedded systems, with emphasis on compilers, ASIPs, and MPSoC design tools.
He published several books and numerous technical papers, and he served as a
program committee member and topic chair of leading international
conferences, including DAC, DATE, and ICCAD. In 2006, he edited the Morgan
Kaufmann book Customizable Embedded Processors. Dr. Leupers received several
scientific awards, including Best Paper Awards at DATE 2000, 2008 and DAC
2002. He has been a co-founder of LISATek, an EDA tool provider for embedded
processor design, acquired by CoWare Inc. He has served as consultant for
various companies, as an expert for the European Commission in FP7, and in
the management boards of large scale projects like UMIC, HiPEAC, ARTIST, and
SHAPES.