Computer Architecture Laboratory - CALab -

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Computer Architecture Laboratory- CALab -

• Department of Computer Engineering/Center for
  Real-Time SystemsMälardalen University, Box
  883, S-721 23 Västerås, Sweden
  http//www.idt.mdh.se/cus/

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University and department facts

• Mälardalen Högskola established 1977 one of
  fastest growing universities in Sweden
• CUS started out in 1987 by three persons
• Research in real-time started 1990 now 22
  persons in research, 18 in teaching
• Providing 70 CS/CE courses to 1500 students

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• Labs
• Computer Architecture Laboratory
• Systems Architecture Lab
• Computer Science Lab

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CAL Personal

• Scientific Leader/Senior Researchers
• Lennart Lindh
• Professor Harald Lawsson
• Professor Kuchcinski
• Ph.D. students
• Johan Stärner (Adj)
• Johan Furunäs
• Joakim Adomat (plan Adj)
• Mohammed El Shobaki
• Filip Sebek, (fom ht98)
• 2Vacant

• Industrial Ph.D. students
• Stefan Sjöholm, (40, ABB ISY)
• Anders Rosvall (20, ABB CRC)
• Ashraf Fawzi (20, Ericsson)
• Research Fellow
• Vacant
• Research Engineer
• Tommy Klevin
• Industrial Partners
• ABB
• Ericsson
• XILINX,
• MENTOR/Microtec

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CAL is based on strategy of

• providing industry with state-of-the-art
  competence
• performing excellent basic research in novel and
  relevant areas
• providing excellent education for engineers,
  students and researchers.

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The CAL focuses on

• complex multiprocessor real-time architectures,
• design of hardware accelerators for real-time
  operating systems
• and methods and tools for hardware design.

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Goal and methods
Industry
Validation
Solutions ModelsPrototypes
Analyze
Documentation Articles etc
Juli to December
Januari to Juni
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The following items will ensure high quality of
the CAL research lab

• Uniqueness All research must be constantly
  related to the state of the art in the field.
• Relevance to the research program
• Correctness and Appropriateness
• Overall Design Guidelines Research in a project
  will be split into sub-problems. In order to
  harmonise the various efforts, it is necessary to
  define overall design principles.
• Relevant Research Program,SARA - Scaleable
  Architecture for Realtime Applications -

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Partners - Industrial

• ABB Industrial Systems, since 1994 formal HW
  verification, Co-simulation
• ABB Robotics, Multiprocessor systems
• XILINX, IC sponsoring
• Ericsson Utvecklings AB, Multiprocessor systems
• RTOS vendors, since 1997, RTU co-processor

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Projects

• At the University
• RTU94, RTU95 and lot of FPGA prototypes for VME
  bus systems (Multiprocessor system)
• SUMO robot (singel processor systems)
• BWKOT (Multiprocessor system)
• Industry (singel processor systems)
• Enea OSE, Prototype
• ABB Robotics, prototype and time analyse
• Microtec (MENTOR)
• ABB Industrial Systems, since 1994 formal HW
  verification, Co-simulation

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CAL Projects

• VLSI, PCB, Co-simulation, formal... Tools
• RTK, Chip , PCB .... designs
• Publications... working with a new book..
  Multiprocessor systems for Real-Time Applications
• Co-simulation of single and multiprocessor
  systems
• ASIC implementations of single and multiprocessor
  systems (MIMD)