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SMECY: Smart Multicore Embedded [SY]stems Presentation of the project. CEA. CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WPL1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC. wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 74 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 114.
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SMECY: Smart Multicore Embedded [SY]stems Presentation of the project
CEA CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WPL1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 74 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 114 The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) mainly aims at helping companies to increase their competitiveness through technological innovation and transfer of its technical know-how to industry. Two laboratories are involved in this project: The Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology (CEA-LETI) at Grenoble is a major player in the MINATEC Micro-Nano technologies innovation center, it benefits from 8000 m2 state-of-the-art clean rooms. It is currently employing some 1600 people.The Laboratory of applied research on software-intensive technologies (CEA-LIST) which is based near Paris, is a key software systems and technology research centre working in three areas with vital societal and economic implications: embedded systems, interactive systems and signal detection and processing. It is employing 450 people. As a multidisciplinary research center combining microtechnology, microsystem expertise and embedded system CEA is a major research platform adapted to advanced technology modules and complex systems developments. Its activities are usually situated at the cutting edge between academic research and industrial development. It is a partner of choice for advanced technology and advanced systems development up to transfer to an industrial partner, precisely such as planned in this project. CEA will bring its competencies in low level programming of multi-core architecture. CEA and ST Microelectronics will collaborate in the frame of P2012 platform
TRT-FRTRT-UK wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 66 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 90 CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WP1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 5 | 0 | 05 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30 Thales is a world leader for mission critical information systems, with activities in 3 core businesses: aerospace (with all major aircraft manufacturers as customers), defence, and security (including ground transportation solutions). It employs 68000 people worldwide (50 countries). Thales develops its strategic capabilities in component, software and system engineering and architectures through its R & T organization. Its six Divisions manage their strategy and technical coordination per domain with hundreds of Units in these Divisions developing their technical activities in close relationship with their market. THALES Research & Technology operates at the corporate level as the technical community network architect, in charge of developing upstream and THALES-wide R & T activities, with vision and visibility. In support of THALES applications, TRT's mission is also to anticipate and speed up technology transfer from research to development in Divisions by developing collaborations in R&T. Thales is international, but Europe-centered. TRT-FR will work on front end compilation (models of computation, parallelisation, etc.) TRT-FR will work on the development of “on demand” accelerator engines, and is involved in clusters targeting the ST 2012 platform and the UTIA EdkDSP platform. TRT-FR will provide programming tools (SPEAR design environment). TRT-UK will work on the OFDM modem application
SKYLAB CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WPL1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 40 SKYLAB Industries is specialist in system engineering (services devoted to certification problems, qualification process), the company is involved in scientific projects and participates also to turnkey products and associated services. SKYLAB Industries is dedicated to package equipments, providing outstanding performance for both data handling and control-command processing. The company provides solutions in the field of airborne systems for demanding customers who require intensive computational power. SKYLAB will provide to the SMECY partners a use case to analyze and evaluate the integration of a parallel architecture in its equipments that would improve airborne missions such as landscape observation and events detection.
TVN CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WPL1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 10 | 0 | 63 | 1 | 1 | 67 Thomson Video Networks is a 100 % subsidiary of Thomson SA, the well-known professional electronics leader. It is a leader in the field of TV and radio terrestrial transmission, platforms for IPTV services, video-on-demand, Mobile TV, and Digital TV and radio broadcasting systems & equipment. TVN capitalises on advanced hardware, software and system capabilities and offers a wide variety of products and expertise in the fields of encoding, multiplexing, scrambling, conditional access management, streams syntactic analysis, SI / PSIP management, Electronic Program Guides, interface products, data broadcast, network supervision, streams servers, etc. TVN boasts first class references all over Europe, with customers as highly known as France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, BBC, RBB, Canal +, Telefonica, ARD/ZDF, Mediakabel, Teledanmark, Eutelsat, SES Astra, Matra Grolier Network, etc. TVN will evaluate development tools either provided by SMECY partners or by external providers. TVN will focus on a video encoding case study. TVN will evaluate development tools and to use them to optimize the design of a professional, high quality software video encoder.
UJF / Verimag CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WPL1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 27 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 64 Verimag, established in 1993, is one of the main European labs in embedded systems. It develops theory, methods and tools for safety critical and embedded systems. Research lab associated with the CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, INPG Technical University. 82 persons including 26 permanent researchers, 7 researchers under contract and 30 Ph.D. students. Verimag aims to produce theoretical and practical tools for the cost-effective development of embedded systems of guaranteed quality. Quality includes dependability properties such as security, safety, availability and performance. Verimag’s results have given rise to transfer and to numerous contractual relations implying Verilog, Schneider Electric, EADS for the development of safety critical systems in Airbus, Prover-Technology for a verification tool dedicated to Lustre, and Esterel-Technologies. Other industrial partners of Verimag are STMicroelectronics, Alcatel, CS-Transport, EDF, France Telecom, IBM, Intrasoft, ISD, Leti/CEA, Prover Technology, RATP, Silicomp, Trusted Logic. Verimag has well-recognized competences in synchronous languages, validation and verification with focus on security and safety, modelling and temporal and hybrid systems analysis. It plays a significant role in real-time embedded systems. Verimag will generate the distributed intermediate format from the intermediate format corresponding to the overall system. Verimag will provide and work on the BIP design flow (Front-end back-end)
ST-GNB2ST-IT wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WPL1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 60 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 120 STMicroelectronics (ST Italy, ST-GNB2) is the 5th world’s largest semiconductor companies. The Company’s sales are well balanced between the industry’s five major high-growth sectors (2007): Communications (36%), Consumer (17%), Computer (16%), Automotive (15%) and Industrial (17%). #1 semiconductors for the Industrial market, set-top box applications, and MEMS chips for portable and consumer devices (game controllers, smartphones,…) #3 Automotive integrated circuits, #3 chips for computer peripherals, #5 rapidly expanding market for MEMS overall The balanced portfolio approach allows to address the needs of all microelectronics users, from global strategic customers for whom ST is the partner of choice for major System-on-Chip (SoC) projects to local enterprises that need fully-supported general-purpose devices and solutions. ST is a partner in the IBM consortium for the development of next-generation CMOS process technologies,including 32nm and 22nm, adapted to the manufacturing of 300mm silicon wafers. ST and IBM also cooperate at ST’s Crolles 300mm facility in the development of value-added CMOS derivative SoC technologies. ST is also active in numerous collaborative research projects worldwide as well as playing a key role in Europe’s advanced technology research programs. It is also a leader in important forward-looking industry European and regional initiatives (Joint Technology Initiatives, European Technology Platforms, “Poles de Compétitivité”). ST will provide P2012 SDK, the P2012 platform and support ST will asses the platform with 2 applications
HPC CEA (C) TRT-FR (CC, WPL1) SKYLAB TVN UJF/Verimag (UC D) ST-GNB2 (PP) HPC wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 36 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 39 HPC Project is a young start-up created by seasoned scientists coming from the high-performance computing field. People from HPC Project have been involved in parallel computer architectures since the middle of the 80s. HPC Project focuses its R&D on automating adaptation to architectural specifics enabling portable and high-level codes to achieve performances even on embarrassingly heterogeneous computing platforms. HPC Project provides application-in-a-box solutions for demanding users who require intensive computational power. The company brings to the market an impressive cumulative experience in system design and computer architecture. The company started the Par4All Open Source initiative to provide efficient software tools for its own accelerators and one of the funded software tools is the PIPS source-to-source compiler developped mainly at Mines ParisTech for more than 20 years. HPC Project is dedicated with Par4All at industrialize and develop faster PIPS for its own use. HPC Project will provide to the SMECY partners tools (e.g. Par4All) to help target code generation in translating C source codes for several back-end tools of other partners.
POLITO ST-Italy (CC, PP) POLITO POLIMI (WP3) UNIBO SELEX-SI (WP4, C1) wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 Politecnico di Torino (POLITO), with over 27,000 students, is the second largest technical university in Italy. The workforce dedicated to research and teaching includes around 900 Professors, 700 PhD Students and 300 Research Assistants, covering all major areas of the engineering and architecture disciplines. POLITO participates to the SMECY project through the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) group, which belongs to the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica. The group consists of 2 Full Professors, 1 Associate Professor, 2 Assistant Professors, 2 Post-Doc Researchers, 3 PhD Students and 10 Research Assistants. The research activities of the group are focused on the development of methodologies, algorithms and tools for the computer-aided design of power-efficient integrated circuits and systems: dynamic power and temperature management.of multi-core architectures, total power optimization of memory subsystems, energy optimization of core-memory interfaces, and process variability control based on monitor and control solutions. POLITO has successfully participated to several EU-funded projects in the domain of embedded systems, such as “EASY”, “POET”, “MARLOW” and “INTRALED” (FP5), and is currently involved in ARTEMIS “SCALOPES” Project. Thanks to the scientific excellence of its scientists, POLITO is currently integrated into the major international research networks. POLITO will contribute to the development of new methods and algorithms for run-time management of in the context of WP3.
POLIMI ST-Italy (CC, PP) POLITO POLIMI (WP3) UNIBO SELEX-SI (WP4, C1) wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 The Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano, known as”DEI”, is one of the major university departments in Europe, both for its size and for the quality of its research. Its mission is to improve constantly the scientific and technological knowledge in the fields of automatics, computer engineering, telecommunications, and electronics. With over 600 members, researchers, collaborators, PhD students, technical and administrative staff, the Department is a vital institution capable of promoting education, fundamental and applied research, and technology transfer to companies. The group that participates in the project is led by Prof. Donatella Sciuto, and focuses on the architectures and methodologies for the design of embedded systems. The group has a staff of more than 20 full time researchers, and it is involved in a number of funded projects and industrial cooperations. Polimi will focus on the exploration of the design space of the multi-core-based implementation of the applications of interest for the project, Polimi will work on the management of reconfigurable on-chip communication resources.
UNIBO ST-Italy (CC, PP) POLITO POLIMI (WP3) UNIBO SELEX-SI (WP4, C1) wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 The University of Bologna (UNIBO), founded in 1088, is recognized as the oldest university in the western world, and one of the largest in Italy (with more than 100,000 enrolled students). It is one of most active Italian universities in research and technology transfer, and it is the top Italian University for 7th FP funding and project participation. The Micrel group, participating to the project belongs to the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS). DEIS is a research-led institute employing more than 70 professors, 40 researchers, 90 doctorate students and a number of post-doctoral and visiting researches. The group has a staff of more than 20 full-time researchers, and a number of industrial cooperations (STMicroelectronics, Hewlett-Packard, Freescale Semiconductors and others). The research activity of the Micrel group focuses on design automation and digital design for nanometer technologies with special emphasis on energy-efficient multi-core platforms. MICREL has extensive experience and published a number of contributions in the field of design automation for low power, reliability and variability tolerance. UNIBO-MICREL participating to a number of EU funded projects, including (i) the REALITY Project (CA N. 216537), (ii) the PREDATOR Project (CA N. 216008), the SCALOPES Project (ARTEMIS JTI). UNIBO will focus on resource management for multi-core platforms, and on optimization-based approaches for scheduling and allocation complex multi-task applications on multi-core platforms.
SELEX-SI ST-Italy (CC, PP) POLITO POLIMI (WP3) UNIBO SELEX-SI (WP4, C1) wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 150 SELEX Sistemi Integrati (SELEX-SI), a Finmeccanica company, designs and develops Large Systems for Homeland Protection, systems and radars for air defence, battlefield management, naval defence, air and airport traffic management, coastal and maritime surveillance. In Italy SELEX Sistemi Integrati is located in Italy but has also a strong international presence in Germany (weather radar systems), in the US (navigation aids) and in the United Kingdom (Systems Integration). Other plants are in France, Spain and Netherlands. With a fifty-year track record in system integration, SELEX Sistemi Integrati has a customer base in 150 countries and complete mastery of advanced technologies - the company's true wealth and expertise – as well as an extensive commercial offer of state-of-the-art solutions, backed up by full logistic support. SELEX Sistemi Integrati, that has about 4,200 employees, is a leader in Research and Development, thanks to annual investments amounting about 20% of the revenue. SELEX Sistemi Integrati is:Systems engineer preferred supplier for air defence and battlefield managementLeading player in the field of Large Systems for Homeland ProtectionDesigner and developer of the world's most complete coastal surveillance system (VTS)Europe's leading producer of 3D NATO class long-rang radarsIntegrated supplier of the "Airport Global System" SELEX will provide and work on several radar based applications and study how they can benefit from multi-core platforms
UTIA UTIA (CC, PP) CIP (C3) BUT wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 30 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 72 UTIA is the public research institution established by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (In Czech: Ustav teorie informace a automatizace AV CR, v.v.i.). Our mission is to provide the basic research in the fields of theoretical cybernetics and computer science. We also help to the local academia and industrial partners to solve implementation issues in all their complexity. The Department of signal processing specializes in implementing algorithms on dedicated chips or programmable hardware. UTIA group has been a project partner in the ESPRIT, IST and national funded projects.UTIA is currently involved in ARTEMIS SCALOPES project, which also targets the field of multi-core systems. SMECY will complement UTIA’s expertise on multi-core embedded systems. UTIA is part of the Czech Centre of Applied Cybernetics (a large national project in the embedded system domain with multiple partners from universities as well as SMEs). The scientific profile of UTIA is complemented with activities that promote cooperation between the Academia and industry. We are engaged in several national and European projects (Idealist FP7, IST World, COSINE) that help local IT organizations prepare or join large-scale projects within the 7th EU Framework Programme. As part of these activities we have organized several workshops and seminars for the potential proposers. UTIA will provide the EdkDSP platform UTIA will work on code generation for the « root RISC processor » UTIA will explore possibilities for improving the platform
CIP UTIA (CC, PP) CIP (C3) BUT wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 24 CIP - CIP Plus s.r.o. Security systems, is a commercial company focused on modern security technologies and services. It was established in 1992 by researchers from the former Research Institute of the Uranium Mines in Pribram. The company has a long tradition in designing and implementing security systems for the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic and the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. We have been growing to a modern company specialized in professional security solutions for individual customers as well as big industrial partners such as the local production industry, banks and the public sector. CIP will work on a Video surveillance application CIP will test and evaluate the UTIA platform CIP will provide feedback for improving the UTIA platform
BUT UTIA (CC, PP) CIP (C3) BUT (T2.2) wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 28 | 16 | 32 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 94 Brno University of Technology (BUT) is the second largest technical university in the Czech Republic. It comprises 8 faculties with more than 22,000 students and 2,100 staff members. The Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) provides education in the Bachelor and Master Study programs in Computer Science and Engineering and the Doctoral study program in Information Technology. Research activities include hardware-accelerated processing, multimedia analysis, embedded system design, knowledge representation and reasoning, context-awareness, semantic web technologies, human-computer interaction, and fuzzy logic. The group that will cooperate on the SMECY project has participated and currently participates in several European projects. BUT will contribute with knowledge and experience in multi-core platforms in the field of hardware-accelerated image and video processing, sensor networks and surveillance applications. BUT will contribute to the optimization based on formal descriptions of the architectures and platform-dependent optimization techniques related to high-throughput image processing.
VTT VTT (CC, UC A) Tellabs NetHawk wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 26 | 0 | 50 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 100 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (http://www.vtt.fi) is an impartial multidisciplinary expert organisation operating under the auspices of the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy. With its staff of 2700 experts, VTT provides high-end technology solutions and innovation services to companies, public sector and international organisations. VTT´s technological focus areas are applied materials, bio and chemical processes, energy, information and communication technologies, industrial systems management, microtechnologies and electronics, and technology in the community. VTT's turnover is 245 M€, out of which 30% is direct governmental funding. VTT has actively participated in international, EU and Eureka projects. Some of them related to the topics of SMECY are: in EU: SYDIC-Telecom, ADRIATIC, GENESYS and MOSART, in Eureka/ITEA: MARTES, and in ARTEMIS SOFIA. VTT has a strong experience in electronics, telecommunications and embedded systems research. The Communication Platforms competence center focuses on wireless access systems, digital transceivers, cognitive and co-operative networks, platform architectures, platform programming and digital system design. The research covers computer architectures, parallel computing and programming, multi-processor system-on-chip and network-on-chip as well as related system-level modelling and performance evaluation techniques. VTT will work on design space exploration, virtualization and execution model, runtime execution support and validating the methods and tools in application case studies.
Tellabs VTT (CC, UC A) Tellabs NetHawk wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 Tellabs (www.tellabs.com) delivers mobile and fixed line solutions for telecom service providers in more than 100 countries. More than half of world’s mobile calls flow through equipment provided by Tellabs. Tellabs Oy has operated in Finland since 1993, when it acquired Martis Oy. The Finnish role in the international business of Tellabs is very significant. Tellabs Oy with its ca. 500 employees is among the largest units of whole Tellabs, which has ca. 3200 employees. Tellabs Oy makes strong investments in research and development, focusing on managed access systems. In addition to R&D, Tellabs Oy has in Finland following functions: customer training, technical customer service, final product assembly and shipping, product customization, repair, supply chain management, administration, sales and marketing. Tellabs has developed in Finland e.g. the Tellabs 8100 series managed access systems and Tellabs 8600 series managed edge systems. With these systems, service providers can offer versatile and dependable services for fixed line and mobile networks offering high capacity, Quality of Service differentiated data services, enabling service providers to customize service offerings according to customer needs. The systems are managed with an advanced network management system, making it easy to cost-effectively control and manage the next generation services. Tellabs will investigate and experiment how to transform currently non-scalable legacy application software to exploit efficiently multi-core solutions. Tellabs will collaborate with NetHawk and VTT in these tasks.
NetHawk VTT (CC, UC A) Tellabs NetHawk wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 25 | 0 | 48 | 30 | 4 | 3 | 110 NetHawk Oyj (www.nethawk.fi), founded in 1991, is one of the world's leading suppliers of analysers and simulators for telecommunications networks. NetHawk products and systems are used by all the leading telecommunication network vendors as well as operators worldwide, throughout the life cycle of network development, deployment and operation. NetHawk was acquired by EXFO in 2010. NetHawk concentrates on the development, production, marketing and sales of testing tools and systems for wireless and VoIP networks. Headquartered in Oulu, Finland, NetHawk has about 450 employees and a local presence through its own regional offices in 9 countries and distributors that serve more than 60 countries in all parts of the world. NetHawk Analysers are scalable and powerful testing, troubleshooting, and optimization tools for GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/WiMAX networks.NetHawk Analyser products are focused for system integration, functional testing, load testing, network roll-out and network operations. NetHawk Simulator products are used by equipment manufacturers and operators in load testing, regression testing and functional testing. NetHawk will research and prototype methods how to convert legacy measurement and testing application software to multi-core environment T4.3. Nethawk will investigate design principles and techniques how to design new software architecture that utilizes multi-core environment efficiently. These are used for extracting requirements, validation of the task T1.2 and T3.2 results, and evaluation of methods and tools. NetHawk will collaborate with VTT in the tasks T1.2 and T3.2.
DTU DTU (CC, WP5) wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 18 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 90 DTU Informatics, at the Technical University of Denmark, is the largest IT department in Denmark and represents a unique combination of modern applied mathematics and computer science & engineering. DTU Informatics conducts research that ranges from basic research to innovation, industrial applications and strategic research. The section on Embedded Systems Engineering (ESE) is one of ten sections in DTU Informatics. ESE conducts research in a broad range of topics central for design o modern embedded systems including reatime systems, faul-tolerant and safety-critical systems, hardware/software co-design, concurrent and parallel programming, heterogeneous distributed multi-core architectures and execution platforms, as well as a range of models, methods and tools for the analysis, design and verification of such systems. A particular focus is to use these competences for the design of embedded systems where close interaction between hardware and software components are necessary and where issues such as cost, timeliness, dependability, energy consumption, reconfigurability and adaptability are often competing Requirements. DTU will contribute with expertise in multi-core architectures and the interaction between hardware andsoftware. DTU will bring competences in three aspects of multi-core architectures: i) architectural enhancements, ii) programming models and iii) operating systems.
HH HH (CC) RTE F2M SMW wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 30 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 58 Halmstad University has strong research competence in the areas of embedded and intelligent systems, organised into the research environment Halmstad Embedded and Intelligent Systems Research (EIS). Particular strengths are found in, e.g., embedded computer systems, embedded parallel computing, intelligent mechatronic systems, learning and self-organising systems, signal analysis, image processing, wireless networking, and data communication. The research groups have a strong tradition in industry collaboration – currently joint projects are being performed with about twenty companies. Industrial research cooperation within embedded parallel computing has been going on for more than fifteen years. Within the School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering, the faculty of EIS are responsible for Master’ programmes within computer and electrical engineering, with specializations within embedded and intelligent systems. Halmstad University is, in all its activities, characterized by a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. Within the area of information and communication technology only, new companies have spun off from the University during the last two decades to such an extent that they now together have an annual turn-over that greatly exceeds that of the entire university. Together, these companies – who have a clear profile towards embedded and intelligent systems – employ more than 400 people. HH will study acceleration using semi-heterogeneous multi-core architectures HH wants to investigate and quantify the benefits of using such semi-heterogeneous multi-core architectures compared to the homogenous multi-core architectures. HH will develop the run-time support needed for run-time reconfiguration programmed in CSP-based model. HH will, together with industry, perform case studies of high-performance sensor-array signal processing (e.g. radar) on available many-cores HH will work on energy efficiency
RTE HH (CC) RTE F2M SMW wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 Realtime Embedded AB (RTE) is seated in Stockholm, Sweden and was founded in 2000 by specialists within the embedded area. Our clients are to be found in the telecom, medical engineering, life sciences, datacom, automotive and defence sectors. We work with multinational enterprises, public utilities and small risk capital businesses. Today we are 14 specialists within Systems test, Systems engineering, FPGA, hardware and software design for embedded systems. For larger projects, we also cooperate with a broad range of specialist firms. For several years RTE has contributed in our clients migration of software to advanced Multi-core platforms. To succeed we have been forced to go deep into the system architectures and sort out the bottlenecks. The contribution has evolved tasks as parallelization of software and algorithms, simulation of hardware and performance analysis. All has been about customizing a unique platform and application dependent system solution for every single customer. RTE will stufy how to generalize their knowledge in design guidelines for a new software architectures enabling easier migration for future clients taking the step into the Multi-core arena.
SMW HH (CC) RTE F2M SMW wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 • Saab is one of the world’s premier suppliers of solutions for surveillance, threat detection and location, platform and force protection, as well as avionics. Centre for this knowledge is the business area Electronic Defence Systems, a merger between former business units Saab Avitronics and Saab Microwave Systems (SMW). • Business area Electronic Defence Systems is a world-leading centre of competence for microwave and antenna technology with advanced airborne, ground-based and naval radar systems in the product portfolio, as well as an extensive range of services. In the Electronic Warfare area Saab offers a full range of assets, with focus on systems, equipment and in-service support for self-protection, ESM and Electronic Attack. Key elements are radar, UV and laser sensors as well as jammers, decoys and counter-measures dispenser systems. Complete EW systems are available for airborne, naval and ground vehicle applications. • Saab has more than 50 years experience of EW and radar development and 3,000 radars are delivered worldwide. Saabs EW systems have been delivered to all Swedish Air Force combat aircraft and are in use with several European air forces, US, Middle East, South and South East Asia and Africa. • Sales in 2009: BSEK 4.6 Employees in 2009: 2,601 • SMW will investigate how the multi-core capabilities meet the performance requirements for signal processing in the next generation of AESA based Multi-role and Multi-functional radars. • SMW will study if/how a multi-core approach can outperform the present approach in aspects such as performance, power and engineering efficiency for conventional and new algorithms.
F2M HH (CC) RTE F2M SMW wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 12 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 52 F2M – Free2move was founded in year 2000 as a spin-off from Halmstad University with the business idea of introducing the Bluetooth technology into the industrial market. Today Free2move is one of the recognized players in this field and is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. The focus has shifted from the Bluetooth modules to wireless audio products over the last year. This means that Free2move now is dedicated to provide high-end audio communication products for the outdoor market. Free2move have a wide expertise: − RF design − Wireless protocol stack design − Coding and Information theory − Audio signal processing F2M will bring their technical expertise and application domain knowledge. F2M will evaluate the programming schemes developed by other parties in the project we can provide useful insight with respect to implementation of the programming tools.
ACE ACE (CC) TUDelft wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 36 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 Associated Compiler Experts bv (ACE) are the developers of the CoSy compiler development system which is the company's core technology. The ACE Group, of which the compiler technology company is a part, has been based in Amsterdam since 1975. The ACE Group is independent, employee-owned and specialises in advanced system- software development products and services. CoSy is the highly flexible, easy-targetable compiler development system, which has been successfully deployed by over 40 customers and partners world-wide, creating high-quality, high-performance compilers for a broad spectrum of DSP-, NPU -, RISC-, VLIW- and 8/16-bit microcontroller and multi-core architectures. ACE has a track record of producing and delivering technology to the community as a result of European projects having managed and participated in several successful consortiums including several ESPRIT projects and has a track record of innovation in operating systems, parallel systems, compiler technology and embedded systems. More recently ACE participated in MEDEA+ MESA, NEVA and TSAR and MORPHEUS. ACEwill work on the support for Many-core C extensions and thread based PMs • ACE will refine in the Cosy IR the necessary primitive descriptions for concurrency, memory modelling and communication to allow capturing the semantics of the parallel programming models defined in this project. • ACE will optimize the target specification to allow parametrization of standard engines and add new leaf engines where needed to support the task's goal. • ACE will give hands-on support to the partners who will use CoSy for this task.
TUDelft ACE (CC) TUDelft wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 20 | 40 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 87 The Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) is the largest university of technology in the Netherlands. The Computer Engineering (CE) Laboratory participates in this project. The CE Lab belongs to the Department of Microelectronics and Computer Engineering which is one of the departments of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science. The CE Lab performs research in and teaches the engineering discipline of how to design, implement, and integrate hardware and software to build a computing system. The laboratory is actively involved in computer architecture, network processing, compiler technology, tools for semi-automatic implementation of architectures, computer arithmetic and logic design, algorithms and tools for testing memories, built-in self-test of logic circuits, and automatic test pattern generation for combinational and sequential logic circuits, performance modeling and optimization techniques and tools. The laboratory includes some 9 faculty members, 3 staff members, 7 post-docs, 54 PhD students, and 48 MSc students. The CE Lab has extensively and successfully been involved in various EU and national research and industrial projects on embedded systems, heterogeneous multi-cores, and reliable circuits. The group is coordinator of the SARC Integrated Project, scientific coordinator of the hArtes Integrated Project, and a founding member of the HiPEAC NoE. TUDelft will focuse on two aspects of multi-core systems (WP3): 1. the development of tools and exploration techniques for hardware and software architectures to optimize their performance,2. the development of new FT methods to increase the overall runtime reliability of these system.
HAI HAI (CC, C2) AUTH UOI wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 43 Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) was founded in 1975 and it is the largest defence industry in Greece with a vision of being the premier company in providing aviation support related services and products to the domestic and world marketplaces. Through consistent efforts towards developing the necessary capabilities and establishing high performance standards, HAI is now one of the growing leaders in providing efficient and high quality services and products within the scope of its operations, which involve: − Aircraft, engine, accessories and avionics maintenance (overhaul, modification, upgrade, repair and logistic support) for military and civilian aircrafts. − Design, development, manufacturing and after sales support of electronic, optoelectronic, telecommunication and information products for military and civilian use. − Information systems for collection, assessment and processing data (development of software tools, decision making, provision of terminal equipments and systems integration). − Command posts and other infrastructure design, production and deployment. HAI will focus on the mobile processing application
AUTH HAI (CC, C2) AUTH UOI wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 7 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 30 The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) is the largest university in Greece and is located in the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The Laboratory on Computer System Architecture, which is the unit of AUTH that participates in the SMECY proposal has a long standing research record in the areas of:Fuzzy systems, neural networks, Parallel processing, Embedded systems Sensor networks AUTH will work on formal modeling of application parallelism AUTH will contribute on the development of algorithms which accelerate the parallel execution of programs. AUTH will contribute on the mobile processing application
UOI HAI (CC, C2) AUTH UOI wp1 wp2 wp3 wp4 wp5 wp6 8 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 36 The University of Ioannina (UOI) is a thriving academic community located in the city of Ioannina, in the north-western region of Epirus, Greece. The Parallel Processing Group belongs to the Department of Computer Science of UOI and has been conducting leading research in various aspects of parallel systems including:Programming models Runtime support systems Collective communications Interconnection networks Architecture Lately, the group develops and maintains the OMPi infrastructure, a compilation and runtime support system for high-performance OpenMP programming. OMPi is currently used in many institutions for educational and research purposes. Members of the Parallel Processing Group have participated in national and EU-funded projects and have published extensively in top scientific journals and international conferences in the aforementioned research areas. • UOI is going to study the suitability and scalability of OpenMP-based multithreading for many-core architectures. • UOI will study the integration of platform-dependent characteristics into the compilation process. • UOI will work on the runtime environment that will provide support for the efficient execution of application threads. • UOI will contribute to parallelization of the mobile processing application for multi-core architectures, utilizing the OMPi tool and further extensions
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