VaST Teams with Academic Institutions to Educate Students in Embedded Design.Princeton, the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Korean Integrated Circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for Design Education Center Join Program SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- VaST Systems Co the technology leader in embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. design Co today announced the VaST Academic Program, which allows selected universities and other academic institutions to receive VaST technology free for educational and some research purposes. The VaST Academic program provides users with a system engineering environment for the design of embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. and system-on-chip (SoC). VaST's solutions are used to develop a virtual system prototype Co a cycle-accurate model of the SoC or embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. that simulates at near real-time speeds. The virtual system prototype is used for architecture analysis and optimization, as well as for concurrent software development and hardware design. The early availability, high performance and observability of virtual system prototypes result in reduced time to market and improved designer productivity. "The Princeton engineering program covers techniques for designing embedded computing systems. These systems are now found everywhere from cell phones to automobiles, and designing them is a large technical and business challenge. Use of the VaST tools and models improves our ability to meet design challenges. Of particular importance is teaching our students how to achieve architectural constraints such as power and cost while accomplishing the required functionality," commented Wayne Wolf, professor of electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. , department of Computer Science at Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities and author of Modern VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Design, now in its third edition. "Embedded system design has been part of the TU Braunschweig curricula since 1996. In recent years, embedded systems have moved from single processor architectures to distributed networked multiprocessors with complex concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking and communication requirements. The VAST simulation environment enables our students to understand virtual prototyping as a powerful and realistic design and verification approach. They gain experience by investigating computation and communication steps in a realistic multi-processor environment. Achieving this level of detail and architecture insight would be very difficult, and perhaps impossible, with a physical lab prototype," said Professor Rolf Ernst, Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig. "VaST has always had close relationships with the leading academic institutions worldwide that are involved in embedded system design research and education. Our Academic Program is a formalization for·mal·ize tr.v. for·mal·ized, for·mal·iz·ing, for·mal·iz·es 1. To give a definite form or shape to. 2. a. To make formal. b. of this effort and will encourage an even greater level of cooperation and communication with leading institutions," said Jeff Roane, vice president of marketing for VaST. About VaST VaST Systems Technology Corporation solutions enable the creation of a virtual system prototype Co a cycle-accurate software model of a system that operates at near real-time speeds under actual software loads. VaST's solutions are OSCI SystemC-compliant and are used for architecture, hardware and software design. VaST solutions dramatically improve time to market and quality while reducing development costs and risk. Current customers include worldwide leaders in semiconductors, automotive electronics, wireless devices and consumer electronics. VaST is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with sales and support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.vastsystems.com. |
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