Memory Controllers for Real-Time Embedded Systems - Goossens, Kees

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Résumé :
Verification of real-time requirements in systems-on-chip becomes more complex as more applications are integrated. Predictable and composable systems can manage the increasing complexity using formal verification and simulation. This book explains the concepts of predictability and composability and shows how to apply them to the design and analysis of a memory controller, which is a key component in any real-time system.

Biographie:
Sven Goossens received his M.Sc. in Embedded Systems from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2010. He worked as a researcher in the Electrical Engineering of the same university until 2011, and then started as a Ph.D. student, graduating in 2015. He is currently employed as a Hardware Architect at Intrinsic-ID. His research interests include mixed time-criticality systems, composability and SDRAM controllers.Karthik Chandrasekar earned his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from TU Delft in the Netherlands in November 2009. In October 2014, he received his Ph.D. also from the same university. His research interests include SoC Architectures, DRAM memories & memory controllers, on-chip communication networks and performance & power modeling and analysis. He is currently employed as a Senior Architect at Nvidia. Benny Akesson received his M.Sc. degree at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden in 2005 and a Ph.D. from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands in 2010. Since then, he has been employed as a Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, and CISTER/INESC TEC Research Unit in Porto. Currently, he is working as a Research Fellow at TNO-ESI. His research interests include memory controller architectures, real-time scheduling, performance modeling, and performance virtualization. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, as well as two books about memory controllers for real-time embedded systems. Kees Goossens received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1993. He worked for Philips/NXP Research from 1995 to 2010 on networks-onchips for consumer electronics, where real-time performance, predictability, and costs are major constraints. He was part-time professor at Delft University from 2007 to 2010, and is now full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where his research focuses on composable (virtualized), predictable (real-time), low-power embedded systems, supporting multiple models of computation. He published 4 books, 100+ papers, and 24 patents....

Sommaire:

Introduction.- Proposed Solution.- SDRAM Memories and Controllers.- Predictable SDRAM Back-End.- Resource Arbitration.- Composable Resource Front-End.- Configuration.- Related Work.- Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendix: System XML Specification.