Information and Communication Technologies. Raúl Mateos Gil. Electronic DESCRIPTION OF THE RESEARCH RESULTS

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1 Ref.: TIC_UAH_08 Industrial Sector Researcher Department Information and Communication Technologies Raúl Mateos Gil Electronic Contact Details Web Site Title DESCRIPTION OF THE RESEARCH RESULTS System on Chip (SoC) development and verification tools Abstract A research group from the Electronics Department of Alcalá University has developed a technology for design and verification of System on Chip (SoC). These tools allow to simulate at high speed, the SoC behaviour in its double aspect HW/SW, providing to the designer a rapid and precise information about the performance of the evaluated design. This allows to reduce the development time and the consequently the time-to-market. The group looks for companies from aerospace and ICT sector to sign commercial agreements with technical assistance. Description and special features System On Chip technologies are especially useful in aerospace applications like avionics systems, missiles, unmanned vehicles and smart munitions, where high performance processing systems with high power efficiency are required and limited space for electronic systems is a common constraint. The tools developed by the group allow: - joint verification of both hardware and software of the SoC, 1

2 - starting the development of the embedded software without needing to have the real platform, - detecting in a rapid and precise way functional errors and/or design bottlenecks, - evaluating different architectural alternatives and - carrying out a quantitative analysis of each alternative in order to determine the optimum architecture of the SoC, etc. An integrated environment is arranged that has the necessary tools to cover the different phases of the SoC development and verification flow: - A processor simulator based on binary translation techniques for embedded software development and debugging. - HW/SW co-simulation environment based on models TLM for design space exploration. - Analysis tools. They allow to obtain quantitative performance information about the processor (classic profiling, gantt charts), memory subsystem memory (cache hit rate, average access latency, data access traces) and bus architecture (occupation level, effective bus bandwidth, average arbitration time), etc. - RTL HW/SW co-simulation environment for the verification of the final design implementation. Innovative aspects FPGA are one of the most cost efficient alternatives for SoC implementation, specially those that are based in SW cores processors, but it doesn t exist nowadays any tool with features similar to ours. Our solution offers a simulation speed more than higher than the commercial options already in the market. In addition the former only allow to evaluate design performance by means of trial and error approach, being an extremely inefficient alternative. Technology Keywords Ingeniería electrónica, Sistemas embebidos y sistemas en tiempo real, Sistemas digitales, representación digital, Tecnologías de periféricos (almacenado de datos, tecnologías de visualización) relacionadas con electrónica y microelectrónica. Scientific domains Information and Communication Technologies Industrial Manufacture, Material and Transport technologies Other Industrial Technologies Energy Physical and Exact Sciences Biological Sciences Agriculture and Marine Resources Agrofood Industry Measurements and standards Environment and risk prevention Socioeconomics 2

3 UNESCO Codes Scientific Area Codes Current stage of development of the research result Development phase Developed, available for demonstration Already on the market Funding Research European RTD project National project Competitive advantages Regional project Private funding COMMERCIAL ASPECTS The use of these tools increases the designer productivity, diminishes the development time, reduces the risks of re-design due to not detected mistakes, etc. All of this is translated in a consequent decrease of costs and an advantage against the competition by reducing the time-tomarket. Current state of industrial and intellectual property Patent applied Patent granted Software registered Comments Exclusive rights Secret know how Copyright protected The research group has the secret know-how of the technology. 3

4 Type of collaboration sought Technical cooperation Joint venture agreement Manufacturing agreement Commercial agreement with technical assistance License agreement Comments The research group looks for companies from the aerospace or ICT sector in order to sign Commercial Agreements with Technical Assistance and Cooperation Agreements. The group will adapt the technology due to the specifications given by the company that culminates in a successful implementation and use of the technology. Industrial sectors of the potential users NACE Codes - 30: Industrias de Material y Equipo Eléctrico, Electrónico y Óptico : Fabricación de instrumentos y aparatos de medida : Construcción aeronáutica y espacial Additional information Jointly HW/SW verification feature 4

5 Example of jointly hardware software performance analysis Speed comparative of our solution vs. other commercial solutions 5

6 Contact Details Universidad de Alcalá-Oficina de Transferencia de Resultados de Investigación (OTRI) Parque Científico Tecnológico de la UAH (Campus Universitário) Edificio Multiservicios Avda. Punto Com Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) / otriuah@uah.es 6