GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE
A 2-day course on Memory Management For Embedded Systems will be
offered by the VLSI Laboratory of the University of Patras in Greece,
from April 1 to 2, 2004.
The course is intended for Engineers from Industry and Academia. Along
with the theory, practical sessions with laboratory exercises are
included.
Lectures will be given by top experts from the Interuniversity
Microelectronics Center (IMEC) and from the University of Patras. The
prerequisite of the course is a basic knowledge of software engineering
and computer architecture. The course will be taught in English. Each
attendee will receive a certificate of attendance at the course.
CONTENTS
Preprocessing
It mainly prunes parts with less memory accesses allowing the designer
to easily focus on the important parts of the application code for
performing further refinements and optimizations.
Exploitation of
Data Reuse
This optimization step takes into account all the addresses of data
memory that are accessed frequently and aims at increasing the locality
of them giving as an output the architecture of cache hierarchy.
Processor - Memory
Bandwidth Optimization
Concerns the application of code transformations for the improvement of
the memory bandwidth characteristics of the system’s memory
architecture.
Physical Memory
Management
A methodology for extracting the system’s Physical Memory Architecture
and placing the application data in it, for system’s performance and
low power.
Task Partitioning
Task partitioning methodology for running the above refined code to
multiprocessor platforms.
LOCATION
The course will be held at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (room ΗΛ1) of the University of Patras in Rio, Geece.
Course Schedules
Courses are schedule to begin at 9.00 am each day and Laboratory
experimental work in the afternoon.
Registration
Registration fees (Euro): EUR
300
100% discount for postgraduate students
Registration form, containing
course registration, should be returned to the mailing address before
the deadline for registration, March 15, 2004. Upon receipt of the
course registration form, a letter of confirmation will be sent
together with the invoice.
Hotel reservation:
Port Rio Hotel
Tel: +302610992102
+302610992212
Fax: +302610992115
Hotel Tzaki
Tel:
+302610453960-3
Fax:
+302610426750
web:
www.hoteltzaki.gr
Payment of the fee should be
reach the course organization by March 24, 2004. Nobody will be allowed
to participate in the course unless their fees have been fully paid by
indicated deadline!
Methods of payment can be either bank transfer, cheque, or cash at the
arrival. this will be indicated also in the letter of confirmation. In
case of cancellation, the fee will be refunded less 8% administration
charge. For details please contact Niki Sarantoglou.
Deadlines:
Course Registration: March 15, 2004
Payment due
by: March 24, 2004
Please register to:
Niki Sarantoglou
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Patras
Rio 26110 Greece
Tel: +302610997283
Fax: +302610994798
e-mail: sarant@ee.upatras.gr
VLSI Web:
www.vlsi.ee.upatras.gr/projects/easy/announcement.html
COURSE ORGANIZATION
This course is organized by the VLSI Laboratory of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras ,
Greece.
Local Organizers:
Costas Goutis,
University of Patras, Greece
Athanasios Milidonis University of Patras, Greece
Course
Schedule
Thursday, April 1
9:00-10:45 Preprocessing
Costas Goutis
11:00-12:00 Exploration of Data Reuse
Costas Goutis
12:15-13:15 Processor – Memory Bandwidth Optimization
Francky Catthoor
15:00-17:30 Laboratory experiments on Preprocessing
Friday,
April 2
9:00-10:45 Physical Memory Management
Francky
Catthoor
11:00-12:00 Task Partitioning I
Costas Goutis
12:15-13:15 Task Partitioning II
Costas Goutis
15:00-17:30 Laboratory experiments on Data Reuse
REGISTRATION FORM
You can print the registration form found at the bottom of this page directly from your browser, or download it here.
MEMORY
MANAGEMENT FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
REGISTRATION
FORM
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letters and return it at the latest
by
March 15, 2004
to Niki Sarantoglou Department of Electrical &
Computer Engineering University of Patras Rio 26110 Greece
Fax: +302610994798
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