The Future of System Design Symposium brings together leaders from industry and academia to share insights on the cutting edge tools and technologies that will shape the world of system design in the coming years. Learn how semiconductor technologies including CPUs and FPGAs are evolving and converging to provide powerful platforms that enable solving the most difficult engineering challenges. Listen to experts describe the opportunities and challenges that are faced in developing the software to take advantage of these systems.
Who Should Attend
- Researchers of system design technologies and tools
- Engineers and engineering management of system-level design teams
- System designers employing processor and FPGAs
- Technologists wanting to learn about the latest research in system design
Keynote
The Evolution of 'All Programmable' Platforms and System Design Tools
Discuss some of the major innovations transforming the system design landscape with the vice president of Processing Platforms Marketing at Xilinx. Also learn how processor and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies are converging to deliver breakthrough "all programmable" system-on-a-chip platforms and how design tools are adapting to use these platforms
Technical Sessions
High-Level Synthesis Revisited: Progress and Applications
High-level synthesis (HLS) has a long history dating back to the 1980s, with contributions from many in the electronic design automation field. But early acceptance of the technology was limited. At this session, learn about the genesis of the successful xPilot HLS system developed at UCLA, which was later licensed to AutoESL Design Technologies and ultimately acquired by Xilinx. Explore real-world results of the technology along with current research on system-level synthesis and generating HLS-friendly source code.
Increasing Abstraction and the Future of LabVIEW FPGA
Many engineers and scientists have used LabVIEW FPGA to access field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology due to its abstracted nature and familiar graphical programming style. But engineers seeking to optimize performance or create multirate DSP applications must still think carefully about the underlying hardware during the design process. At this session, discover how high-level synthesis (HLS) technology offers increased FPGA programming abstraction alongside design optimization. Also explore how HLS can be used as a back-end compiler technology across models of computation.
Capitalizing on Moore's Law With Many-Core Computing
Learn how processing architectures are evolving to meet the needs of demanding applications and take advantage of Moore's law. Examine the highly parallel Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel MIC) architecture and the performance potential and developer productivity that this technology enables.
Designing Reconfigurable, Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing Systems
Explore how you can use reconfigurable computing technology to accelerate the design of systems with high-computational demands. This session focuses on combining reconfigurable hardware with additional computing elements and flexible I/O to create high-performance heterogeneous systems capable of generating results in real time.
Optimizing Electric Vehicle Design Through Virtual Test
The development of the "more electric automobile" is continuing at an unprecedented pace, with motors, power electronics, and software controls replacing all-mechanical vehicle systems. When you can't wait for a physical prototype to be developed, virtual prototypes can help you make critical design decisions on sizing and integrating components. Explore the integration of brushless DC or induction motors; digital, analog, and power electronics; vehicle mechanical dynamics; and control software with a complete LabVIEW vehicle drive-cycle test program.
The Future of LabVIEW: System Design Innovation for the Next Decade
Explore the ideas, research, and vision that are shaping LabVIEW innovation for the design space and transforming the LabVIEW environment into a world-class system design platform. Learn how this platform will meet the challenges imposed by increasing design sophistication and the rapid evolution of hardware and software technologies.
Experts Panel: The Future of System Design
Participate in an interactive discussion with seasoned industry and academic experts as they take on challenging questions and make bold predictions about the future of system design. Which technologies will win and which will sputter? What are the future design bottlenecks that no one is thinking about? Can this economic downturn inspire system design innovation?
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