CAREER: Integrating Control, Computation, and Communication - A Design Automation Flow for Distributed Embedded Systems

职业：集成控制、计算和通信 - 分布式嵌入式系统的设计自动化流程

• 批准号: 0644202
• 负责人: Luca Carloni
• 金额: $ 43.04万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0644202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Integrating; Control; Computation; Communication

Steady advances in enabling technologies such as semiconductor circuits, wireless networking, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are making possible the design of complex distributed (networked) embedded systems which are expected to benefit important application areas such as public infrastructure, industrial automation, automotive industry, and consumer electronics. However, the heterogeneous and distributed nature of many such systems requires design teams with a multifaceted set of skills spanning automatic control, communication networks, and hardware/software computational systems. Computer-aided design, a traditionally interdisciplinary research area, is instrumental in making these systems feasible and in enhancing the productivity of the design process. This NSF CAREER research is developing new modeling techniques, optimization algorithms, communication protocols, and interface processes that combined yield a novel design automation flow for distributed embedded-control applications that must depend on networked communication, such as automotive "X-by-wire systems" and integrated buildings. The goal is both to simplify the integrated design and validation of these systems and to foster collaboration among engineers with different expertise. Research contributions include new methods for the robust deployment of real-time embedded software and for the synthesis of distributed implementations that meet performance requirements while balancing the usage of communication and computational resources. The companion educational program is founded on the belief that the academic curriculum needs to be updated in order to overcome the historical and artificial boundaries among those disciplines in electrical engineering and computer science that lie at the core of embedded computing.

诸如半导体电路，无线网络和微机械系统（MEM）之类的启用技术的稳定进步使得有可能使复杂的分布式（网络）嵌入式系统的设计有益于重要的重要应用领域，例如公共基础设施，工业自动化，工业自动化，自动化工业以及消费者。 但是，许多此类系统的异质性和分布性质需要设计团队，具有多方面的一组自动控制，通信网络和硬件/软件计算系统的技能。 传统上是跨学科研究领域的计算机辅助设计有助于使这些系统可行并提高设计过程的生产力。这项NSF职业研究正在开发新的建模技术，优化算法，通信协议和界面流程，这些过程结合了新型的设计自动化流，用于分布式嵌入式控制应用程序，必须依赖于网络通信，例如自动化的“ X-By-Wire系统”和集成建筑物。 目的是简化这些系统的集成设计和验证，并促进具有不同专业知识的工程师之间的协作。研究贡献包括新的方法，用于实时嵌入式软件的强大部署以及综合分布式实现，以满足性能要求，同时平衡通信和计算资源的使用。 伴侣教育计划的基础是基于这样的信念，即需要更新学术课程，以克服嵌入式计算核心的电气工程和计算机科学中这些学科的历史和人工界限。