Session 3: Method and tools for system design

The four papers in this session present novel methodologies covering different aspects of system design. The first paper proposes a decentralized system-level security approach for task isolation on heterogeneous MPSoCs. A first prototype of the isolation unit is presented and realized in VHDL. The second paper focuses on low power design methods for system design based on lightweight dataflow programming techniques. The approach is evaluated by designing an FPGA-based accelerator for a deep neural network. The third paper presents a method for automated code generation for SIMD architectures based on constraint programming. The benefits of the approach are evaluated with DSP kernels and by comparing the results to hand-optimized code. Finally, the fourth paper proposes a methodology based on fuzzy logic for object image quality assessment (IQA) and compares it against other IQA approaches.