ECE 153a/253 Assignments
Reading assignments, just like homework assignments, can be updated but are mostly stable. It is a good idea to read through the assignments before the class lectures.
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Embedded Systems Overview (Week 1 Assignment) |
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| [Tennenhouse00] | Tennenhouse, D. Proactive computing. Communications of the ACM, vol.43, (no.5), ACM, May 2000. p.43-50. |
| [Lee02] | Edward A. Lee, Embedded Software, to appear in Advances in Computers (M. Zelkowitz, editor), Vol. 56, Academic Press, London, 2002. |
| [mb_ref_guide.pdf] | Xilinx MicroBlaze Reference Guide (v 14.3) (Here, focus on the ISA overview, Interrupt behavior, and Stack Conventions) |
Models of Computation (Week 2 Assignment) |
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| [edk_ctt.pdf] | Xilinx EDK Concepts, Tools and Techniques (v 14.3) Overview of EDK concepts. |
| [est_rm.pdf] | Xilinx Embedded System Reference Manual (v 14.3) Much of it is valuable, focus on GCC conventions for interrupt and volatility handling this week. |
| [Lavagno98] | L. Lavagno, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and E. Sentovich, Models of Computation for Embedded System Design, 1998 NATO ASI Proceedings on System Synthesis, Il Ciocco (Italy) 1998 |
| Finite State Machines (Week 3 Assignment) | |
| [Harel96] | Harel, D.; Naamad, A. The STATEMATE semantics of statecharts. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol.5, (no.4), ACM, Oct. 1996. p.293-333. |
| Reference on FSM |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine |
| More FSMs (Week 4 Assignment) | |
| [Martin98] | Martin, R. C., UML Tutorial: Finite State Machines |
[Regular Automata]| Tutorial on Regular Automata |
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[Ikenaga]| Equivalence Relations (Bruce Ikenaga; Minersville) |
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| Implementing HFSMs (Week 5 Assignment) | |
| [Seawright94] | Seawright, A.; Brewer, F., Clairvoyant: a synthesis system for production-based specification ,Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.2, no.2, pp.172-185, Jun 1994 |
| [Vahid95] | Vahid, F., Narayan, S. Gajski, D., SpecCharts: A VHDL Front-End for Embedded Systems ,Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.14, no.6, Jun 1995 |
| [QP-HSM] | Slides from QP HSM-- step by step instructions to implement a HFSM in QP... |
| [ug230.pdf] | Spartan 3e Board User Guide v 1.1 -- Useful for lab1b... will definitely be needed later. |
| Discrete Data Flow, Scheduling (Week 6) | |
| [Hwang91] | Hwang, C.-T.; Lee, J.-H.; Hsu, Y.-C., "A formal approach to the scheduling problem in high level synthesis," Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.10, no.4, pp.464-475, Apr 1991 |
| [Haynal98] | Haynal, S. and Brewer, F. Efficient encoding for exact symbolic automata-based scheduling. In Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/ACM ICCAD, pp 477-481, Nov. 1998. |
| [Landskov80] | Landskov, D., Davidson, S. Shriver, B, Mallett P, Local Microcode Compaction Techniques, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 12 , Issue 3, pp 261-294, 1980. (Eary reference to list scheduling and dependency analysis). |
| Synchronous Data Flow (Week 7) | |
| [lee87] | Lee, E. A., Messerschmitt, D. G., Synchronous Data Flow, Proceedings of the IEEE, VOl 25, no., 9, Sept 1987. |
| [lee87a] | Lee, E. A., Messerschmitt, D. G., Static Scheduling of Synchronous Data-Flow Programs for Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, v. C-36, no. 1, January, 1987. |
| [leeparks95] | Lee, E.A. Parks, T. M., Dataflow Process Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE, v 83, n. 5, May 1995. |
| Real-Time Scheduling and Task Management (Week 9) | |
| [laylandliu77] | Liu, C. L. and Layland, J. W. 1973. Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment. J. ACM 20, 1 (Jan. 1973), 46-61. |
| [lehoczky89] | J. Lehoczky, L. Sha, Y. Ding, The rate monotonic scheduling algorithm: exact characterization and average case behavior, Proc. Real Time Systems Symposium, pp 166-171, Santa Monica, CA 1989. DOI 10.1109/REAL.1989.63567 |
| [spuri96] | M. Spuri, G. Buttazzo, S.S. Anna, Scheduling aperiodic tasks in dynamic priority systems, J. Real-Time Systems, v. 10, pp 179-210, 1996. |
| Additional Readings | |
| [Baleani02] | |
| [buck93] | |
| [chehida02] | |
| [chiodo94] | |
| [cytron91] | |
| [dominator79] | |
| [edwards97] | |
| [ferrante87] | |
| [harel87] | |
| [harel90] | |
| [ivan96] | |
| [josephs05] | |
| [latency_sdf] | |
| [lee99] | |
| [murata89] | |
| [paulin87] | |
| [sassone96] | |
| [sdf_software99] | |
| [stankovicMisconceptionRT] | |
| [waka92] | |
| [wegman91] | |
| [wolf94] | |