System-Scenario-based Design Principles and Applications

Prof. Francky Catthoor is a fellow at the Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC), Heverlee, Belgium. He received the engineering degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1982 and 1987 respectively. He was assistant professor at the EE department of the KU Leuven since 1989, and has become full professor (part-time) since 2000. His current research activities belong to the field of architecture design methods and system-level exploration for power and memory footprint within real-time constraints, oriented towards data storage management, global data transfer optimization and concurrency exploitation. In 1986 he received the Young Scientist Award from the Marconi International Fellowship Council. He has been an associated editor of IEEE TVLSI, IEEE Transactions on Multi-Media. Since 2002 he is an associate editor of the ACM TODAES and since 1996 an editor for Kluwer's Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. He is also a member of the steering board for the VLSI Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society and on IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems steering board. He was the program chair of the 1997 IEEE Intl. Symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS) and the general chair for the 1998 ISSS. He was also the program chair and main organizer of the 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Systems (SIPS) conference. He has been elected an IEEE fellow in 2005.

Introduction.- System-scenario Design Flow and Methodology.- Control variable oriented System-scenario Techniques.- Data variable oriented System-scenario Techniques.- Application to processor architecture mapping.- Application to dependable system design.- Application to scenario-aware data flow analysis.- Application to manufacturing systems.- DVAFS applied to hierarchical neural network processing.- Other applications.