A Proposed Modeling Environment to Teach Performance Modeling and Hardware/Software Codesign to Senior Undergraduates

This paper describes a proposed modeling and design environment for teaching the concepts of performance modeling of hardware/software systems to senior computer engineering undergraduate students. This environment is being developed to support senior capstone design projects in computer engineering. Portions of this environment are currently being beta tested and educational material, including lecture slides and laboratory exercises, based on the use of the environment are being developed. 1

Flexible scheduling of turbo decoding on a multiprocessor platform

Basic concepts and literature review -- Universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) -- The vocallo architecture -- Performance modeling -- Mapping the system level models into MPSoC platforms -- Multiprocessor scheduling and synchronization -- Worst case execution time (WCET) based design -- Scheduling flexible applications -- Mapping and scheduling of turbo decoding in MPSoC platforms -- Performance modeling -- Steps to create a performance model -- Detailed description of the performance model -- One performance model example -- Scheduling of turbo decoding -- Mapping the uplink WCDMA processing on an MPSoC platform -- Processing variability of the studied turbo decoder -- BER performance of the studied turbo decoder -- Proposed methods for scheduling the turbo decoding -- Simulation results -- Validating investigation -- Elapsed simulation time