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CONTREX/ECSI/D/D6.3.2 Public

Dissemination Report (Initial)

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Public

FP7-ICT-2013- 10 (611146) CONTREX

Design of embedded mixed-criticality CONTRol

systems under consideration of EXtra-functional

properties

Project Duration 2013-10-01 – 2016-09-30 Type IP

WP no. Deliverable no. Lead participant

WP6 D6.3.2 ECSI


Prepared by Adam Morawiec (ECSI)

Issued by ECSI

Document Number/Rev. CONTREX/ECSI/D/D6.3.2/1.0

Classification CONTREX Public

Submission Date 2014-06-23

Due Date 2014-06-31

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013)

© Copyright 2014 OFFIS e.V., STMicroelectronics srl., GMV Aerospace and Defence

SA, Cobra Telematics SA, Eurotech SPA, Intecs SPA, iXtronics GmbH, EDALab srl, Docea

Power, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Universidad de Cantabria, Kungliga

Tekniska Hoegskolan, European Electronic Chips & Systems design Initiative, ST-Polito

Societa’ consortile a r.l..

This document may be copied freely for use in the public domain. Sections of it may

be copied provided that acknowledgement is given of this original work. No responsibility is

assumed by CONTREX or its members for any application or design, nor for any

infringements of patents or rights of others which may result from the use of this document.



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History of Changes

ED. REV. DATE PAGES REASON FOR CHANGES

AM 0.1 2014-05-14 18 Initial version

SR 0.2 2014-05-14 23 Input OFFIS

AM 0.3 2014-06-19 25 Inputs from partners integrated, ECSI activities added

AM 0.4 2014-06-19 31 Partners’ input added

AM 0.5 2014-06-20 32 Partner’s input added

AM 0.6 2014-06-23 31 All partners’ input integrated, consortium review

version

KG 0.7 2014-06-23 31 Removed submitted papers and articles. Added

accepted papers of MCSDIA special session at DSD.

AM,

SR 1.0 2014-06-23 31 Late additions, final review and release



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Contents

1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 4

2 Consortium-Level Dissemination Activities ...................................................................... 5 2.1 DATE Conference and Booth at the Exhibition .......................................................... 5 2.2 DATE Workshop: 3PMCES ........................................................................................ 5 2.3 Cyber-Physical Systems: Uplifting Europe's innovation capacity Conference ........... 7 2.4 2

nd Workshop on Mixed-Criticality Integration .......................................................... 7

2.5 ESLsyn Conference ..................................................................................................... 9 2.6 DAC Workshop: System to Silicon Performance Modeling and Analysis ............... 10 2.7 Organisation of a Special Session on Mixed Criticality System Design,

Implementation and Analysis (MCSDIA) ............................................................................ 11

2.8 Dissemination Material and Means ........................................................................... 14 3 Partner-Level Dissemination Activities ........................................................................... 17

3.1 OFFIS E.V. ................................................................................................................ 17

3.2 STMICROELECTRONICS, ST-I ............................................................................. 19 3.3 GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE SA UNIPERSONAL .................................. 19 3.4 COBRA TELEMATICS............................................................................................ 19 3.5 EUROTECH .............................................................................................................. 20

3.6 INTECS ..................................................................................................................... 21 3.7 iXtronics GmbH ........................................................................................................ 22

3.8 EDALab ..................................................................................................................... 23 3.9 DOCEA POWER ...................................................................................................... 24 3.10 POLITECNICO DI MILANO ............................................................................... 25

3.11 POLITECNICO DI TORINO ................................................................................ 27 3.12 UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA ...................................................................... 28

3.13 KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN ......................................................... 29 3.14 ST-POLITO ........................................................................................................... 30

4 Relations to Other Projects ............................................................................................... 31 5 Summary .......................................................................................................................... 32



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1 Introduction

This document summarises all dissemination activities that were undertaken by the

CONTREX project consortium as a whole and by each individual partner of the consortium in

the first 9 months of project execution.

From the very beginning the CONTREX consortium initiated dissemination activities that,

due to the initial phase of the project, were mainly oriented at making the community aware

of the project, its objectives and expected results. This first phase was also used to identify

related running projects with similar objectives and to establish links with some of them.

Having this objective in mind a common presentation was prepared for the DATE Workshop

3PMCES in March 2014 between 4 projects: DREAMS, PROXIMA, CONTREX and

MiltiPARTES. This event was also useful to establish connections with related projects like

RELY (focusing on performance and aging aspects of systems) and the CRAFTERS and

PAPP projects focusing on execution performance and eSW porting problems on multi-core

platforms.

The CONTREX Consortium also acted pro-actively and organized a very first workshop at

the DAC Conference (June 2014) on System to Silicon Performance Modeling and Analysis.

These initial activities created a very good basis for collaboration with other projects and for

establishing relations with the community (research partners and potential industrial

customers) of the CONTREX results.



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2 Consortium-Level Dissemination Activities

2.1 DATE Conference and Booth at the Exhibition

The European Project Cluster on Mixed-Criticality Systems consisting of the DREAMS,

PROXIMA, MultiPartes, and CONTREX projects had a joint booth at the DATE 2014

Conference in Dresden. From 25th to 27th of March the projects presented their self to a

broad audience and discussed the addressed objectives, research goals and ideas with

interested exhibition visitors. The joint booth also fostered discussion and contacts between

DREAMS, PROXIMA and CONTREX project participants and the coordinators of these

projects.

Figure 1: CONTREX, DREAMS, PROXIMA and MultiPARTES Booth at the DATE Conference

Exhibition

2.2 DATE Workshop: 3PMCES

On March 28th 2014 the 3PMCES Friday workshop at the DATE 2014 conference was

organized by ECSI to enable CONTREX to present its approach and expected results to a

wider audience. The CONTREX project contributed to this workshop with an overview

presentation, also covering introduction of the European Project Cluster on Mixed-Criticality

Systems.

The workshop enabled to establish relation between CONTREX (and the MCC Cluster) with

other related European projects:



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CRAFTERS (ConstRaint and Application driven Framework for Tailoring Embedded

Real-time Systems) – ARTEMIS 295371 (coordinator: Technical University of

Tampere)

PAPP (Portable and Predictable Performance on Heterogeneous Embedded

Manycores) – ARTEMIS 295440 (coordinator: SICS)

RELY (Design for RELIABILITY of SoCs for Applications like Transportation,

Medical, and Industrial Automation) – CATRENE Project (coordinator TU

Muenchen)

OpenES (Open ESL Technologies for Next Generation Embedded Systems) –

CATRENE Project (coordinator: STMicroelectronics)

Besides the presentation in the regular session, CONTREX also presented the poster in the

special poster session of the event.

Participation profile:

Total participation: 34

Industry: 9

University/Research: 25

Aalto University, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and IIIA-CSIC, CEA LIST, DTU,

Fujitsu Laboratories, Glasgow Caledonian University, GN ReSound ApS, Kontron, LIP6,

Mälardalen University, McGill University, Newcastle University, OFFIS, SICS, Tampere

University of Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Technische Universität

München, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universität Siegen, University of Cantabria,

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Grenoble, University of Hertfordshire,

University of Southampton, University of Tokyo, University of Twente, University

Oldenburg



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Main Impact:

Presentation of CONTREX vision, objectives and expected results to the audience

Establishment of relations with other R&D projects

Relations to some industry partners: Kontron, CEA, Fujitsu, ReSound, …

It is worth to mention that this workshop was the second best populated workshop at DATE

this year with 34 participants (the best workshop attracted 35 participants).

2.3 Cyber-Physical Systems: Uplifting Europe's innovation capacity Conference

The Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems: Uplifting Europe's innovation capacity was held

in October 29-30, 2013 in Brussels, Belgium and focused to bring together key actors in EU

research and innovation to discuss strategies and stimulate community building in the area of

Cyber-Physical Systems. Not neglecting the importance of technologies, focus is on European

industrial competitiveness and how to reinforce it through research and innovation.

On the second day of the conference (see Figure 2) which was devoted to parallel breakout

workshops, Kim Gruettner from OFFIS did a presentation about CONTREX at the workshop

“Mixed Criticality Systems – platforms for the future” (please see more information at:

http://www.amiando.com/cps-conference.html?page=973125).

The CONTREX presentation highlighted the objectives and main challenges of the project by

emphasizing the optimization of extra-functional properties (timing, power, temperature and

reliability requirements) for multi-core execution platforms.

Figure 2: CONTREX presentation at the workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems – platforms for the

future.

2.4 2nd Workshop on Mixed-Criticality Integration

After a successful 2013 edition, the HiPEAC 2014 conference in Vienna hosted the second

edition of the workshop on mixed-criticality integration entitled “2nd Workshop on

http://www.amiando.com/cps-conference.html?page=973125



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Integration of Mixed-criticality Subsystems on Multi-core and Manycore Processors”. The

technical program covered two days.

The first day was devoted to ongoing projects, which presented their main results, with a

focus on their impact on the future design of MCS; the second day was devoted to presenting

the goals, objectives and approaches of recently accepted projects. Overall, the audience

enjoyed a good balance between results from currently running projects and new challenges to

be addressed by just-started projects.

Figure 3: (From left to right) Salva Trujillo (IK4-IKERLAN, MultiPARTES coordinator),

Kim Grüttner (OFFIS, CONTREX coordinator), Francisco Cazorla (BSC, PROXIMA

coordinator) and Roman Obermaisser (Univ. Siegen, DREAMS coordinator)

during a break

An excellent representation of the European research projects in the field, under both the FP7

and Artemis programs, was present at the workshop: RECOMP, parMERASA, T-CREST,

PROARTIS, MultiPARTES, CERTAINTY, CRYSTAL, PROXIMA, CONTREX, DREAMS

and EMC2. There were talks focusing on the following topics: Multi-Processor Systems-on-a-

Chip (MPSoCs) for mixed-criticality applications, hypervisors and operating systems for

MPSoCs, hard real-time guarantees and certification aspects, model-driven engineering tools

for effort reduction, applications in automotive, avionics, railway, energy and industrial

control and existing future research directions.

Both day’s sessions ended with very fruitful panel discussions with recognized experts in the

field, moderated by Salva Trujillo (IK4-IKERLAN). The first panel was held on the

challenges of the road to certification of mixed-criticality systems with panelists: Roman

Obermaisser (University of Siegen), Michael Paulitsch (Airbus Group), Rafael Zalman

(Infineon), Jon Perez (IK4-IKERLAN),Christian El Salloum (AVL) and Alfons Crespo

(Polytechnic University of Valencia).

The second panel was on many-core mixed-criticality systems with panelists: Francisco J.

Cazorla (BSC), Alan Burns (University of York), Mathieu Patte (Astrium) and Jaume Abella

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Almost 80 people from at least 16 countries – representing Europe and Asia – attended the

workshop. The agenda and the workshop material are available at

https://alfresco.dit.upm.es/multipartes/eventsInfo/HiPEAC2014.html.

A new edition is planned in 2015. More pictures from the event are available via

https://twitter.com/FP7MultiPARTES

2.5 ESLsyn Conference

The 4th

edition of the ESLsyn Conference was organized by ECSI (in collaboration with

OFFIS and University of Oldenburg) in San Francisco, CA, USA on May 31 – June 1, 2014.

The conference was co-located with 51st DAC Conference. The General Chair was Prof.

Achim Rettberg, University of Oldenburg, Germany, the Program Chairs: Christian Haubelt,

Univeristy of Rostock and Benjamin Carrion Schafer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University.

ESLsyn is a forum to discuss automated system design methods that enable efficient

modeling of systems to provide the capability to synthesize HW platforms and embedded

software with particular aspects related to synthesis. The main aim of the conference is to

bring research institutions and industrial partners in the domain of ESL synthesis closer

together by informing practitioners of the latest theoretical results, and challenging

theoreticians with complex industrial problems. ESLsyn wants to provide a discussion

platform for experience exchange between providers of synthesis technology and industry

users, but also will be a forum to discuss scientific concepts and paradigms for the future

evolution of synthesis methods. It therefore welcomes both academic and industrial

participants.

CONTREX presented a paper:

Considering Variation and Aging in a Full Chip Design Methodology at System Level,

Domenik Helms, Kim Gruettner, Reef Eilers, Malte Metzdorf, Kai Hylla, Frank

Poppen (OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany) and Wolfgang

Nebel (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany).

and contributed to the panel

‘Do we have all the necessary ingredients (formalisms, languages, models, flows,

tools) to practically apply system/high-level synthesis?’.

A full program and slides are available from the ECSI website: www.ecsi.org/eslsyn

A new edition of ESLsyn is planned for 2015 with a stronger involvement of industry users

and EDA companies acting in the high-level synthesis domain.



Industry: 10

University/Research: 18

Agilent, Axis, C-Lab, EPFL, FLIR, Huawei, INRIA, NEC, OFFIS, STW, Synopsys, TU

Chemnitz, TU Eindhoven, U Amsterdam, U Lund, U Calgary, U Rostock, U Hong Kong

https://alfresco.dit.upm.es/multipartes/eventsInfo/HiPEAC2014.html

https://twitter.com/FP7MultiPARTES

http://www.ecsi.org/eslsyn



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Main Impact:

Presentation of CONTREX technical paper

Relations to some industry partners: Huawei, NEC, Agilent, FLIR, Axis,

2.6 DAC Workshop: System to Silicon Performance Modeling and Analysis

Workshop scope and objective: The integration of complex heterogeneous electronic systems

composed of SW and HW requires not only a proper handling of system functionality, but

also an appropriate expression and analysis of various extra-functional (non-functional)

properties and quality attributes of the system like timing, caching, non-determinism,

probabilistic effects, power consumption, thermal behavior, reliability, cost and others.

The workshop addresses cross-domain aspects related to the construction of design and

verification framework encompassing methodology, interoperable tools, flows, interfaces and

standards that will enable for formalization, specification, annotation and refinement of

functional and extra-functional properties as well as quality features.

Several research and industry efforts address (parts of) the problem, there is a need of

community-wide cooperation to establish common understanding, development directions

and proof of applicable solutions. This event will help to create the basis for communication

between main actors from system and microelectronics industry, EDA and research.

CONTREX presentation:

Modelling, Simulation and Analysis of Mixed-Criticality Systems Under

Consideration of Extra-functional Properties, Kim Grüttner (OFFIS, Germany)

Abstract: With the predicted device, core and multicore scaling, a recent study revealed

that regardless of chip organization and topology, multicore scaling is power limited. It

has been predicted that at 22 nm, 21% of a fixed-size chip must be powered off, and at

8 nm, even more than 50%. For mixed-criticality systems, this is of major importance,

because safety critical applications cannot be switched on and off or even migrated

during runtime. Power and temperature management must guarantee freedom from

interference with other applications under all possible conditions. For this reason, the

extra-functional properties need to be modelled and analyzed at the system and

platform level, because they can strongly affect the overall quality of service

(performance, battery lifetime) or even cause the system to fail meeting its real-time

and safety requirements. In mixed-criticality systems, cross-application interferences

with respect to timing, power and thermal properties need to be captured as well.

In this talk, we present a SystemC-based simulation framework for capturing extra-

functional properties in virtual prototyping simulations, currently under development in

the CONTREX project. This covers the specification of platform properties (extra-

functional model) as well as the dynamic capturing, processing, and extraction of

power/temperature information during the simulation. Especially closing the loop back

to the application and run-time services is an important feature for complex hardware

platforms and software stacks. As an example, we will present a battery-powered

mixed-critical avionics system, running a safety-critical flight control application and a

performance critical image processing application on the same multicore System on

Chip.



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The workshop material will be available soon at the ECSI web site: www.ecsi.org


Total registrations: 75


Industry: 38 (registered)

University/Research: 37 (registered)

Advanced Micro Devices, Ain Shams University, Ajou University, Altera, AMD, Arizona

State University, ARM, ARM Norway AS, Axis Communications , Boston University,

Broadcom Corporation, BroadPak, Cadence Design Systems, Carnegie Mellon University,

CEA, CERN, CJSC Babilon-Mobile, C-LAB, Concordia University, CSR, DelfMEMS,

Department of Defense, Ericsson AB, ETH Zurich, Fraunhofer IIS, George Mason

University, Huawei Technologies, IISc, IIT Kanpur, Imec, Intel, ITRI, KAIST, Marvell,

National Taiwan University, New York University, Northeastern University, Oracle, Pacific

Northwest National Laboratory, Panasonic, Politecnico di Milano, Qualcomm Technologies

Inc, Rambus, Raytheon, Samsung Electronics, Sapienza University of Rome, Siemens,

STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, THALES, The University of Hong Kong, The University of

Texas at Austin, Tokyo Institute of Technology, UCLA, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

do Sul, University of Calgary, University of Frankfurt, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, University of Wisconsin Madison, Utah State University, Virginia Tech., ZTE

Corporation

Main Impact:

CONTREX presentation in the international (world-wide) context: new contacts in

large industry, exposure to new research teams and potential users/adopters of the

CONTREX technology

Alignment with the OpenES project (this workshop was jointly organized by OpenES

and CONTREX)

Good contacts with EDA companies present

2.7 Organisation of a Special Session on Mixed Criticality System Design, Implementation and Analysis (MCSDIA)

The MCSDIA special session of the 17th Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design

(DSD 2014) has been organized by Eugenio Villar (UC) and Kim Grüttner (OFFIS). It will

take place August 27-29 2014 in Verona, Italy. The call for paper can be found below or at:

https://contrex.offis.de/home/images/meetings/dsd2014/CfP_DSD_MCSDIA_extended.pdf

We have invited the members of our industrial advisory board as reviewers:

Jean-Loup Terraillon, ESA, The Netherlands

Andreas von Schwerin, Siemens AG, Germany

Knut Hufeld, Infineon Technologies AG, Germany

and the coordinators of the other MCC projects:

http://www.ecsi.org/

https://contrex.offis.de/home/images/meetings/dsd2014/CfP_DSD_MCSDIA_extended.pdf



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Roman Obermaisser, University of Siegen, Germany (DREAMS)

Francisco J. Cazorla, Supercomputing Center and IIIA-CSIC, Spain

(PROXIMA)

Knut Hufeld, Infineon Technologies AG, Germany (EMC2)

The following papers from EMC2, DREAMS and PROXIMA have been submitted, reviewed

and accepted for presentation:

Daniel Muench, Michael Paulitsch, Michael Honold, Wolfgang Schlecker and Andreas

Herkersdorf: Iterative FPGA Implementation Easing Safety Certification for

Mixed-Criticality Embedded Real-Time Systems

Jon Perez, David Gonzalez, Carlos Fernando Nicolas, Ton Trapman and Jose Miguel

Garate: A safety certification strategy for IEC-61508 compliant industrial mixed-

criticality systems based on multicore partitioning

Leonidas Kosmidis, Eduardo Quiñones, Jaume Abella, Tullio Vardanega, Ian Broster

and Francisco J Cazorla: Probabilistic Timing Analysis and Its Impact on Processor

Architecture

Roman Obermisser, Zaher Owda, Mohammed Abuteir, Hamidreza Ahmadian and

Donatus Weber: End-to-End Real-Time Communication in Mixed-Criticality

Systems Based on Networked Multicore Chips

The special session will be moderated by Eugenio Villar (U Cantabria) and Kim Grüttner

(OFFIS).



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2.8 Dissemination Material and Means

2.8.1 Web site

The project web site is available at: https://contrex.offis.de

Also ECSI hosts the CONTREX Project site on its own site www.ecsi.org/contrex:

https://contrex.offis.de/

http://www.ecsi.org/contrex



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2.8.2 Poster

2.8.2.1 CONTREX Project Overview Poster



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2.8.2.2 Poster at DAC'14 (WIP Track)



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3 Partner-Level Dissemination Activities

3.1 OFFIS E.V.

3.1.1 Publications

2014

Kim Grüttner, Philipp A. Hartmann, Tiemo Fandrey, Kai Hylla, Daniel Lorenz, Stefan

Stattelmann, Björn Sander, Oliver Bringmann, Wolfgang Nebel, Wolfgang Rosenstiel,

An ESL Timing & Power Estimation and Simulation Framework for

Heterogeneous SoCs, Proceedings of International Conference on Embedded

Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS XIV), Samos,

Greece, July 14-17, 2014.

Domenik Helms, Kim Grüttner, Reef Eilers, Malte Metzdorf, Kai Hylla, Frank

Poppen, Wolfgang Nebel, Considering Variation and Aging in a Full Chip Design

Methodology at System Level, Poster at DAC'14 (WIP Track), San Francisco, CA,

USA, June 01-05, 2014.

Sören Schreiner, Kim Grüttner, Sven Rosinger, Achim Rettberg. Autonomous flight

control meets custom payload processing: A mixed-critical avionics architecture

approach for civilian UAVs, In SORT 2014 - 5th IEEE Workshop on Self-Organizing

Real-Time Systems, Reno, Nevada, USA, June 2014.

Salvador Trujillo, Roman Obermaisser, Kim Grüttner, Francisco J. Cazorla, Jon Perez.

European Project Cluster on Mixed-Criticality Systems, In 3PMCES workshop -

Performance, Power and Predictability of Many-Core Embedded Systems, Dresden,

March 2014

3.1.2 Presentations at Conferences / Workshops

2013

Kim Gruettner. “Design of embedded mixed-criticality CONTRol systems under

consideration of EXtra-functional properties”, Conference on Cyber-Physical

Systems: Uplifting Europe's innovation capacity, Belgium, Brussels, October 29-30,

2013.

2014

Kim Grüttner, Project overview poster at HiPEAC '14 EU project poster session,

January 2014, Vienna, Austria

Kim Grüttner, CONTREX project presentation, MultiPARTES - Multi-cores

Partitioning for Trusted Embedded Systems - 2nd International workshop on the

Integration of mixed-criticality subsystems on multi-core and manycore processors ,




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Philipp A. Hartmann, Are the results of the EU research projects really sharable

and exploitable by the industrial and academic communities?, Panellist at 5th

Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for

Many-core Architectures and 3rd Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for

Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms (PARMA-DITAM 2014), January 2014,

Vienna, Austria

Philipp A. Hartmann, Modelling, simulation and analysis of extra-functional

properties of multi-core platforms in multi-application scenarios, 6th Workshop

on: Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods and Tools (RAPIDO’14),


Kim Grüttner, What is still needed to have a reliable embedded system

development ecosystem in place?, Panellist at Performance, Power and Predictability

of Many-Core Embedded Systems (3PMCES) Friday workshop at DATE’14, March

28, 2014, Dresden, Germany

3.1.3 Exhibitions and Demonstrations

2014

DATE'14: European Project Cluster on Mixed-Criticality Systems at DATE'14

Exhibition, March 2014



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3.2 STMICROELECTRONICS, ST-I

No specific dissemination activities in this reporting period.

3.3 GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE SA UNIPERSONAL


3.4 COBRA TELEMATICS




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3.5 EUROTECH


Marco Carrer, Paul Pishal, “Internet of Things: In Motion”, JavaOne, San Francisco,

2013.

Marco Carrer, “Eclipse M2M Technologies in Action”, EclipseCON 2014.

o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlDJMK7yqg

o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UELw9QrlDRI

o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA5j7c2SgqQ

Pierre Pitot, “Eclipse M2M Technologies in Action”, EclipseCON France 2014.

Cristiano De Alti, “Eclipse Kura: an introduction”, Eclipse Day Florence, 2014.

Marco Carrer, “Eclipse Kura”, IoT Day, Grenoble, 2014.


Participation to the Embedded World 2014 for the promotion of Eclipse Kura (in

collaboration with Intel and Oracle).

Participation to the JavaOne Exhibition for the promotion of the Kura platform (San

Francisco, 2013).

3.5.3 Other dissemination activities

Eurotech Kura aims at offering a Java/OSGi-based container for M2M applications running in

service gateways. This platform is one of the two counterparts of the cloud solution adopted

in the automotive scenario (UC2). With the collaboration of Hitachi and IBM, Eurotech

decided to submit Kura project to the Eclipse Foundation, in the context of the Eclipse

Technology Projects as an open source incubator. Currently, Eclipse Kura Project is in the

Project Proposal Phase as defined in the Eclipse Development Process. This dissemination

activity represents a key factor for the acceptance and diffusion of the Kura pervasive

platform in the M2M context and is extremely important because allows to increase, as much

as possible, the number of devices supported by the platform itself. A rich set of supported

devices has a direct impact on the potentialities of the cloud platform and on the added value

provided by the cloud services. The choice of an Eclipse based project, supported by the

Eclipse Member Program, is motivated by the large community of developers that support it

and by Eclipse IDE, a widely accepted and valuable open source integrated developed

environment.



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3.6 INTECS


No presentation has been done at conferences so far.


The overview of the CONTREX project were presented at the Intecs booth in the ERTS 2014

Conference Exhibition in Toulouse.

3.6.3 Internal Events

Internal dissemination is dominant at this point in the project, as new technologies are

primarily being absorbed from CONTREX technology providers. The contents of the

CONTREX project were presented internally to other Intecs teams involved in other R&D

projects in the same technical area, such as the CONCERTO (Guaranteed Component

Assembly with Round Trip Analysis for Energy Efficient High-integrity Multi-core Systems)

ARTEMIS project and the SMASH (Secure MultifunctionAl Satellite on cHip) project for the

Italian Defence Administration.

Important cross-site internal dissemination is also occurring: the main technical work on the

use case is taking place within the L’Aquila site of Intecs, whereas another cross-functional

(modeling) team is located within the Pisa site of Intecs, geographically distant by several

hundred kilometers. Regular meetings are taking place in order to disseminate across the sites

the main technologies that are entering such as the Design Space Exploration techniques, the

power management and optimization techniques, and the virtual platform implementation

technologies in the L’Aquila site; and conversely the SysML / MARTE related modeling

techniques, which are mainly within the Pisa site. This internal dissemination activity is

filling an important gap in the spread of technological know-how within the company, which

must invest considerable effort in avoiding knowledge “silos”.



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3.7 iXtronics GmbH


Within the first 9 month of the project, iXtronics presented the intermediary results within 4

internal workshops.

These workshops took place with different customers (OEM and Tier 1) from the aerospace

and automotive industry.

iXtronics gave an outlook on potential later CAMeL-View toolboxes based on developments

of the CONTREX project (e. g. multi core target support).



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3.8 EDALab

3.8.1 Publications

E. Ebeid, F. Fummi, D. Quaglia, H. Posadas (UC), E. Villar (UC): "A Framework for Design-

Space Exploration and Performance Analysis of Networked Embedded Systems",

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods

and Tools, ACM, 2014.

E. Ebeid, F. Fummi, D. Quaglia, Communication Alternatives Exploration in Model-Driven

Design of Networked Embedded Systems, IEEE International Workshop on Microprocessor

Test and Verification (MTV), Austin, TX, USA, 11–13 December, 2013, pp. 100-105.

E. Ebeid, F. Fummi, D. Quaglia, F. Stefanni, Automatic Network Protocol Synthesis from

UML Sequence Diagrams, IEEE International Workshop on Microprocessor Test and

Verification (MTV), Austin, TX, December 11-13, 2013, pp. 1-6.


No Presentation at external events (seminars, workshops) has been done so far.


No exhibition and demonstration has been done so far.


No internal event (seminar, workshop, presentations) where CONTREX project and its results

were presented as been held so far.



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3.9 DOCEA POWER


ARM TechCon 2014 - October 1-3 2014 in Santa Clara, US

DOCEA is taking part in this conference to present the following paper:

Electronic System Level Coupled Power-Thermal Modeling and Dynamic Analysis

By Gene MATTER, Nicolas PELTIER, Sylvian KAISER, Ilija MATERIC and Jean-

Christophe OUDIN – DOCEA Power

DAC Workshop on System to Silicon Performance Modeling - June 5 2014 in San

Francisco, US

DOCEA is taking part in this workshop to present a talk entitled:

Power and Thermal Modeling and Analysis at the System Level

By Gene MATTER, Sylvian KAISER – DOCEA Power



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3.10 POLITECNICO DI MILANO

3.10.1 Publications

Giovanni Mariani, Gianluca Palermo, Vittorio Zaccaria, Cristina Silvano. “DeSpErate:

Speeding-up Design Space Exploration by using Predictive Simulation Scheduling”. In

Proceedings of DATE 2014 - International Conference on Design, Automation and Test in

Europe. Dresden, Germany. March 2014.

Edoardo Paone, Davide Gadioli, Gianluca Palermo, Vittorio Zaccaria e Cristina Silvano.

“Evaluating Orthogonality between Application Auto-Tuning and Run-Time Resource

Management for Adaptive OpenCL Applications”. In Proceedings of ASAP - International

Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors. Zurich,

Switzerland. June 2014.

Mariagiovanna Sami, Gianluca Palermo. “Virtual Semi-Concurrent Self-Checking for

Heterogeneous MPSoC Architectures: A DSE Approach” In Proceedings of ASAP -

International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors.

Zurich, Switzerland. June 2014.

Carlo Brandolese, Luigi Rucco, William Fornaciari. Optimal wakeups clustering for highly-

efficient operation of WSNs periodic applications. IEEE international conference on

information communication and embedded systems (ICICES). Chennai, Tamilnadu, India,

February 2014.

Carlo Brandolese, Luigi Rucco, William Fornaciari. An optimal model to partition the

evolution of periodic tasks in wireless sensor networks. IEEE international symposium on a

world of wireless mobile and multimedia networks. Sydney, Australia, June 2014.


The paper “DeSpErate: Speeding-up Design Space Exploration by using Predictive

Simulation Scheduling” has been presented by Gianluca Palermo at DATE 2014 Dresden,

Germany. March 2014. The event is very large, however the audience of the session was

around 40 people.

Gianluca Palermo presented a poster at HIPEAC 2014 (Jan 2014, Vienna, Austria) on

“DRuiD: Designing Reconfigurable Architectures with Decision-making Support” describing

the usage of Machine Learning techniques in HW/SW application mapping for FPGA based

designs. Globally the event included more than 400 people. Among them with around 10-15

researchers and PhD students a detailed technical discussion have been done on the content of

the poster.

On the same events Gianluca Palermo as co-organizer of the RAPIDO workshop, moderated

an invited talk session on functional and extra-functional modelling of multicore platform

where a presentation of CONTREX given by Philipp Hartmann from OFFIS has been

included. The audience of the RAPIDO workshop during the invited session was around 40

people from both industry and academia.



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Carlo Brandolese presented the paper “Optimal wakeups clustering for highly-efficient

operation of WSNs periodic applications” at ICICES2014. The number of attendees of the

event was around 200 peoples, 30 people were in the specific session where the paper has

been presented.


No presentations or demo has been done at exhibitions so far.


Internal Seminars to the POLIMI research group not involved in the project including also

MSc, Graduate and PhD students:

- Davide Gadioli. “ARGO: A C++ framework for monitoring application level extra-

functional properties and supporting application auto-tuning”. April 2014.

- Edoardo Paone: “Improving DSE with Constraint Programming techniques for

efficient DoE definition (Report of the period at KTH)”. January 2014.



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3.11 POLITECNICO DI TORINO

3.11.1 Publications

1. Sara Vinco, Alessandro Sassone, Franco Fummi, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino,

‘’An Open-Source Framework for Formal Specification and Simulation of Electrical

Energy Systems’’, accepted at ISLPED’14: International Symposium on Low Power

Electronics and Design, San Diego, CA August 2014.

2. Sara Vinco, Alessandro Sassone, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino,

“An Efficient Simulation Methodology for Electrical Energy Systems,’’ accepted at

PRIME’14: 10th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics,

Grenoble, France, June 2014.


No presentation has been done at conferences so far. The first two papers above will be

presented by POLITO people at the two events.


No presentation has been done at exhibitions so far.


The Open-Source Framework described in the first publication is currently used in course in

the Master program in Computer Engineering taught by Prof. Poncino at POLITO. This

course that targets embedded systems, the students use a model-based approach to design

complete systems including power source, energy storage devices and various digital and non-

digital electronic components, and where the target property to be simulated is power.



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3.12 UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA

3.12.1 Publications

E. Ebeid (U.Ver.), F. Fummi (U.Ver.), D. Quaglia (U.Ver.), H. Posadas, E. Villar: "A

Framework for Design-Space Exploration and Performance Analysis of Networked

Embedded Systems", proc. of the 6th Workshop on Rapid Simulation and Performance

Evaluation: Methods and Tools, ACM, 2014.


No presentation has been done at conferences so far.


No exhibition and demonstration has been done so far.


No internal event (seminar, workshop, presentations) where CONTREX project and its results

were presented as been held so far.



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3.13 KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN


The following paper has been presented at DATE 2014. The research presented in this paper

is the first version of the analytical design space exploration framework, which will be further

developed as part of Task 2.3.

K. Rosvall and I. Sander. A constrained-based design space exploration framework for

real-time applications on MPSoCs. In Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE

'14), Dresden, Germany, Mar. 2014.

Audience: ca 50 conference participants of DATE 2014


No presentation has been done at exhibitions so far.


ICES Focus-Group Real-Time: KTH has a center ICES, Innovative Center for

Embedded Systems, which has ca 25 industrial partners. On March 5, 2014, Ingo

Sander, who is leading the focus group on real-time, gave a 20-minutes presentation

on CONTREX and the KTH activities in CONTREX for the members of the focus

group (Participants from seven industrial companies and from KTH). As a next step a

larger ICES-seminar is planned.



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3.14 ST-POLITO




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4 Relations to Other Projects

The detailed analysis of relations to other projects is presented in the Deliverable D6.4.1.

The projects of relevance identified by CONTREX are OpenES, VERDI, ACOSE, H-

Inception, HiCool, ArrowHead, Benefic, EMC2 and CRYSTAL.

Common dissemination activities will be undertaken within the CONTREX Forum.

Some activities relative to the development of model for power source, converters and energy

storage devices as well as their fitting into a SystemC/IP-XACT based simulation framework

partially inherit from project FP7-ICT-288827 “SMAC” (Smart Systems Co-design),in which

the focus is however on functional properties. The extension to non-functional properties and

firstly to power/energy is the focus of POLITO’s contribution to CONTREX.



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5 Summary

Within the first 9 months of CONTREX operation several valuable activities were undertaken

by the project to initiate the dissemination and awareness of the project: organization of

technical workshops, exhibition booth, scientific papers and presentations at the conferences

are among the most important activities.

CONTREX also devised a plan how to expand and strengthen these activities in the future.

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