SoftwareEnvironmentsforEmbeddedSystems.ppt

Kurt Keutzer Lecture 26a:  Software Environmentsfor Embedded Systems Prepared by: Professor Kurt Keutzer Computer Science 252, Spring 2000 With contributions from: Jerry Fiddler, Wind River Systems, Minxi Gao, Xiaoling Xu, UC Berkeley Shiaoje Wang, Princeton SW: Embedded Software Tools Another View of Microprocessor Architecture Let’s look at current architectural evolution from the standpoint of the software developers …, in particular Jerry Fiddler Fiddler’s Predictions for the Next Ten Years (2010) End of the “Age of the PC” Lots of Exciting Applications Development Will Continue To Be Hard Even as we and our competitors continue to make incredible efforts Chips - No predictions MEMS / Nano-technology Sensors Will Impact Us Fundamental Principles Computers are, and will be, everywhere The world itself is becoming more intelligent Our infrastructure will have major software content Most of our access to information will be through embedded systems Economics will inexorably drive deployment of embedded systems The Internet is one important factor in this trend Reliability is a critical issue EVERY tech and mfg. business will need to become good at embedded software What Will Be Embedded in Ten Years? Everything That is Now Electro-Mechanical Machines (Nano-Machines) Analog Signals Anything that communicates Lots of stuff in our cars Our Bodies Today - Pacemakers Soon - De-Fibrillators, Insulin Dispensers We can all be the $6M Person, for a lot cheaper All sorts of interfaces Speech, DNI, etc. Embedded Microprocessor Evolution Embedded CPU cores are getting smaller; ~ 2mm2 for up to 400 mHz Less than 5% of CPU size Higher Performance by: Faster clock, deeper pipelines, branch prediction, ... Trend is towards higher integration of processors with: Devices that were on the board now on chip: “system on a chip” Adding more compute power by add-on DSPs, ... Much larger L1 / L2 caches on silicon Microprocessor Chaos A Challenging Environment New Hardware Challenges S