Embedded System Design (ESD)
Smaller, faster, more intelligent - but how secure?
Today, many products have integrated electronics. In a modern midsize car alone, numerous electronic systems are used to optimize comfort, safety and effi ciency. In the traffi c and transportation segment, this type of hard- and software system is also incorporated into traffic infrastructures; safety systems; and the coordination of transportation and materials fl ows in logistics. In the health sector embedded electronic systems have become indispensable, improving quality of life and off ering a range of options to maintain and regain health. Examples of such medically relevant solutions include hearing aids, pacemakers, mobile ECG or »lab-on-chip« devices that improve diagnosis and treatment options.
Some of these products have only become possible thanks to rapid developments in manufacturing technology that have allowed embedded hardware and software systems (HW/SW) to be produced in ever smaller, more compact forms. This results in a continuous stream of new challenges for industry and research institutions. Ever smaller products must be incorporated into ever more complex system architectures that must simultaneously meet the increasing requirements of modern applications regarding processing speed and energy efficiency. In addition to this, globalized markets mean growing time pressure for development work and shorter product cycles. Developers are also faced with high cost pressures, since competition among mass-market products is fierce and margins are low. The smallest diff erences in price are often key competitive advantages. Many applications have the further complicating factor that the embedded HW/SW systems are often deployed in security-critical applications.
Various research groups at OFFIS and Oldenburg University have been investigating these issues and challenges for many years now. Their goals include modeling; analysis; and optimization at all design levels plus the automated synthesis of embedded HW/SW systems regarding performance, energy consumption, manufacturing fluctuations, ageing effects, environmental influences, required chip area, and, finally, costs. Further focuses are the development of suitable specification, verification, and synthesis methods for component-based design processes as well as formal analysis methods to ensure implementation requirements.
This work will be transferred to the Embedded System Design competence cluster to facilitate its bundling and research within a larger context. This will facilitate the development of methods, tools, and standards that assist the effi cient, secure development of microelectronic embedded systems in industrial design processes.
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Prof. Dr. Martin Fränzle
E-Mail: martin.fraenzle(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-566, Room: D 119/120
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Nebel
E-Mail: wolfgang.nebel(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-280, Room: O 21
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Dr. rer. nat. Frank Oppenheimer
E-Mail: frank.oppenheimer(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-285, Room: O128a
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UP2DATE
Intelligent software-UPDATE technologies for safe and secure mixed-criticality and high performance cyber physical systems
Duration: 2020 - 2022Z
Publications
2021
A Fast Yet Accurate Message-level Communication Bus Model for Timing Prediction of SDFGs on MPSoC
Hai-Dang Vu and Sebastien Le Nours and Sebastien Pillement and Ralf Stemmer and Kim Grüttner; 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2021; 01 / 2021
A Modeling Methodology for Collaborative Evaluation of Future Automotive Innovations
Maher Fakih, Oliver Klemp, Stefan Puch and Kim Grüttner; Software and Systems Modeling; 2021
The UP2DATE Baseline Research Platforms
Alvaro Jover-Alvarez, Alejandro J. Calderon, Ivan Rodriguez, Leonidas Kosmidis, Kazi Asifuzzaman, Patrick Uven, Kim Grüttner, Tomaso Poggi and Irune Agirre; Proceedings of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE); 02 / 2021
2020
A Compiler Comparison in the RISC-V Ecosystem
Mehrdad Poorhosseini, Wolfgang Nebel and Kim Grüttner; IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent systems (COINS 2020); 07 / 2020
A Timed-Value Stream Based ESL Timing and Power Estimation and Simulation Framework for Heterogeneous MPSoCs
Kim Grüttner and Philipp A. Hartmann and Tiemo Fandrey and Kai Hylla and Daniel Lorenz and Stefan Hauck-Stattelmann and Björn Sander and Oliver Bringmann and Wolfgang Nebel and Wolfgang Rosenstiel; International Journal of Parallel Programming; 2020
An Embedded CNN Implementation for On-Device ECG Analysis
Alwyn Burger, Chao Qian, Gregor Schiele, Domenik Helms; 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops); March / 2020
Capturing Neural-Networks as Synchronous Dataflow Graphs
Daniel Lünemann and Maher Fakih and Kim Grüttner; Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) 2020; 2020
Functional Test Environment for Time-Triggered Control Systems in Complex MPSoCs
Razi Seyyedi, Sören Schreiner, Maher Fakih, Kim Grüttner andWolfgang Nebel; Microprocessors and Microsystems; 2020
Legacy Software Migration based on Timing Contract aware Real-Time Execution Environments
Irune Yarza and Mikel Azkarate-askatsuaa and Peio Onaindia and Kim Grüttner and Philipp Ittershagen and Wolfgang Nebel; Journal of Systems and Software; 2020
Multi-Core Devices for Safety-Critical Systems: A Survey
Jon Perez, Roman Obermaisser, Jaume Abella, Francisco Cazorla, Kim Grüttner, Irune Agirre, Hamidreza Ahmadian and Imanol Allende; ACM Computing Surveys; May / 2020
