Industry Session
Performance prediction and design-space exploration for wafer scanners
Jeroen Voeten (Embedded Systems Institute, Eindoven, Netherlands)
Embedded control is a key product technology differentiator for many of the Dutch high-tech industries. The strong increase in complexity of embedded control systems combined with the occurrence of late changes in control requirements, results in many timing performance problems showing up only during the integration phase.
This results in extremely costly design iterations, severely threatening the time-to-market and time-to-quality constraints.
In the Wings project this integration problem is attacked systematically through the construction of executable models. The key approach is to separate the logic of the embedded control application from the execution platform on which it is deployed. The resulting models yield a high-level overview and provide system-wide insight in timing bottlenecks. They further allow rapid exploration of alternatives for optimization of timing performance (by adapting the application, the execution platform or the mapping).
The Wings project has demonstrated the effectiveness of the performance prediction and optimization method by applying it to a complex performance-critical subsystem of a wafer scanner. The application of the method has resulted in more than a dozen improvement proposals yielding a huge overall timing performance gain and resulted in a development roadmap of the execution platform.
Curriculum Vitae:
Jeroen Voeten received his master’s degree in Mathematics and Computing Science and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is a senior research fellow at the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven and an associate professor in the Electronic Systems group at the faculty of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include system-level design methodology and performance modeling for embedded systems.
Embedded Systems Institute:
The Embedded Systems Institute (ESI) is a Dutch public-private partnership that was founded in 2002 by the universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente, and by ASML, Philips, Océ and TNO. The mission of the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI) is to advance industrial innovation and academic excellence in embedded systems engineering for high-tech systems.
In the Wings project this integration problem is attacked systematically through the construction of executable models. The key approach is to separate the logic of the embedded control application from the execution platform on which it is deployed. The resulting models yield a high-level overview and provide system-wide insight in timing bottlenecks. They further allow rapid exploration of alternatives for optimization of timing performance (by adapting the application, the execution platform or the mapping).
The Wings project has demonstrated the effectiveness of the performance prediction and optimization method by applying it to a complex performance-critical subsystem of a wafer scanner. The application of the method has resulted in more than a dozen improvement proposals yielding a huge overall timing performance gain and resulted in a development roadmap of the execution platform.
Curriculum Vitae:
Jeroen Voeten received his master’s degree in Mathematics and Computing Science and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is a senior research fellow at the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven and an associate professor in the Electronic Systems group at the faculty of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include system-level design methodology and performance modeling for embedded systems.
Embedded Systems Institute:
The Embedded Systems Institute (ESI) is a Dutch public-private partnership that was founded in 2002 by the universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente, and by ASML, Philips, Océ and TNO. The mission of the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI) is to advance industrial innovation and academic excellence in embedded systems engineering for high-tech systems.
Development and Performance Evaluation of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems
Thomas Herpel (Automotive Safety Technologies GmbH)
Modern cars comprise various functions from active and passive safety, relying on vehicle-internal information or on data from environment sensor systems.
The major goal is to enhance the car’s capabilities in occupant protection and to mitigate crash severities by taking actions prior to a collision.
Development of such systems requires considerable efforts in design, modeling and performance evaluation of both hard- and software architectures, in order to avoid malfunctions in serial operation and to achieve a high level of reliability and efficiency.
This talk provides an overview on current development issues from vehicle safety and presents methodic approaches to model and implement intelligent safety systems and to evaluate the performance at various levels of system development. The focus is on state-based modeling techniques, stochastic simulation and testing strategies.
Curriculum Vitae:
Thomas Herpel studied Computational Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he received the B.Sc. Degree in 2004 and the M.Sc. Degree in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he was working as a Research Assistant at the Chair Computer Science 7 — Computer Networks and Communication Systems (Prof. Reinhard German) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In cooperation with the Department of Safety Electronics at the Audi AG, Ingolstadt he investigated time-critical data transmission for networked safety functions, focusing on performance evaluation with Network Calculus and Discrete Event Simulation. In November 2009, he received his Ph.D.-Degree. Currently, he works at the Automotive Safety Technologies in the fields of function development and functional safety.
Automotive Safety Technologies:
The Automotive Safety Technologies was founded in 2009 as a joint-venture of the Audi Electronics Venture GmbH, Ingolstadt, Germany and Andata Entwicklungstechnologie GmbH, Hallein, Austria. The company focuses on development, simulation and testing of concepts and functions from the application area of intelligent vehicle safety systems and occupant protection.
Curriculum Vitae:
Thomas Herpel studied Computational Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he received the B.Sc. Degree in 2004 and the M.Sc. Degree in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he was working as a Research Assistant at the Chair Computer Science 7 — Computer Networks and Communication Systems (Prof. Reinhard German) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In cooperation with the Department of Safety Electronics at the Audi AG, Ingolstadt he investigated time-critical data transmission for networked safety functions, focusing on performance evaluation with Network Calculus and Discrete Event Simulation. In November 2009, he received his Ph.D.-Degree. Currently, he works at the Automotive Safety Technologies in the fields of function development and functional safety.
Automotive Safety Technologies:
The Automotive Safety Technologies was founded in 2009 as a joint-venture of the Audi Electronics Venture GmbH, Ingolstadt, Germany and Andata Entwicklungstechnologie GmbH, Hallein, Austria. The company focuses on development, simulation and testing of concepts and functions from the application area of intelligent vehicle safety systems and occupant protection.
