CASTNESS'07 Objectives 1

CASTNESS’07 1/3 - ObjectivesCASTNESS’07 1/3 - Objectives

promote development of promote development of European reference platform forEuropean reference platform for

Numerical Embedded and Scalable Systems:Numerical Embedded and Scalable Systems:

Mastery of new European SW/HW architecture allowing Mastery of new European SW/HW architecture allowing European Companies/Universities/Research institutes toEuropean Companies/Universities/Research institutes to

achieve world-leading positions in HW/SW solutions and products for achieve world-leading positions in HW/SW solutions and products for numerical embedded scalable systemsnumerical embedded scalable systems

Creation of a validated reference design/architecture for embedded Creation of a validated reference design/architecture for embedded and numerical computation platformsand numerical computation platforms

Suites of interoperable design tools for rapid design and prototypingSuites of interoperable design tools for rapid design and prototyping

Theory and methods for holistic system design Theory and methods for holistic system design

CASTNESS'07 Objectives 2

CASTNESS’07 2/3 - Available BackgroundCASTNESS’07 2/3 - Available Background

CASTNESS’07 facilitates the future exploitation of the know-how developed by:

SHAPES

AETHER, HARTES, MORPHEUS, SARC projects

ARTIST2 Network of Excellence

INFN development of 4 generations of APE Massive Parallel Processors

ATMEL Roma:

• mAgicV VLIW Gigaflops DSP IP

• Diopsis RISC+VLIW DSP Tile

ST Microelectronics:

• Spidergon Network-on-Chip

CASTNESS Research community

CASTNESS'07 Objectives 3

CASTNESS’07 3/3 Short/medium term opportunities …CASTNESS’07 3/3 Short/medium term opportunities …

Next (5th) generation of INFN systems

(future merge of APE + SHAPES + ??? Know-how) Next (3rd) generation of ATMEL Diopsis MPSoC tile Others… (CASTNESS’07 output!!!) Call FP7-ICT-2007

Objective ICT-2007.3.3 Embedded Systems Design• Theory and Methods for system design

• Suites of interoperable design tools for rapid design and prototyping

• Coordination of national, regional and EU-wide R&D programmes

Objective ICT-2007.3.4 Computing Systems • A reference architecture for generic embedded platform

• Novel Tiled architecture for multi-core computing systems

Objective ICT-2007.3.1. Next-Generation Nanoelectronics Components and Electronics Integration

Future Emerging Technologies calls (to be presented today)

……TO CREATE A COMMON EUROPEAN NUMERICAL EMBEDDED SCALABLE TO CREATE A COMMON EUROPEAN NUMERICAL EMBEDDED SCALABLE SYSTEM, physical and simulated systems, to be used by the CASTNESS SYSTEM, physical and simulated systems, to be used by the CASTNESS research communityresearch community