Emulation of automotive complex systems-on-chips

The rising complexity of today’s systems such as automotive controllers requires the thorough validation of its software and hardware components. As the computational effort for simulating such large systems takes an increasing amount of time, emulation techniques have been gaining importance. Rapid prototyping with FPGAs provides an affordable and fast solution for the validation of large software/hardware systems.

In this thesis, an emulation system for a target automotive controller must be architected and implemented. The controller is the Tricore, a current microprocessor design provided by our industrial partners.

This thesis is part of the research project “DIANA”  in cooperation with Audi, Infineon, Continental and ZMD.

Prerequisites:

•    “Advanced Processor Architecture”
•    “Design and Test of Systems on a Chip”, “Hardware Based Fault Tolerance”, or “Hardware Verification and Quality Assesment”or “Lab Course: Elements of High-Performance RISC Processors - Design and Synthesis”

The thesis can be written in English or German.

CONTACT  
Alejandro Cook (Email: alejandro.cook@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
Stefan Holst (Email: holst@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
Laura Rodríguez Gómez (Email: laura.rodriguez@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)