The Technical University of Denmark is happy to welcome both Jens Sparsø and Paul Pop as professors in
Embedded Systems Engineering.
In celebraton of their appointments DTU Compute is happy to invite you to attend their joint inaugural lecture followed by a reception.
Friday, 20th May at 2.30 pm, building 101, 1st floor, room 1, Technical University of Denmark, Anker Englundsvej 101a, 2800 Kongens Lyngby.
Registration is not required.
Abstracts:
Abstract Inaugural Lecture 20th May 2016
by Professor Jens Sparsø: Hardware platforms for cyber physical systems – From networks-on-campus to networks-on-chip
Cyber physical systems are computer based systems that interact with and are embedded in a physical environment. Hearing aids and control systems for factories and cars are a few examples, and with the internet of things we beginning to see massive amounts of very small networked devices. The hardware platforms used in these systems are tailor-made computer systems optimized for minimum energy consumption, small physical size, robustness towards varying operating conditions, and/or time predictability. To achieve these goals, the platforms typically integrate many heterogeneous processors that communicate using some form communication network. This network is the backbone in the platform and its role reaches far beyond transporting bits from A to B. The fact that such complex systems can be implemented in a single microelectronic chip is the result of an unparalleled and sustained evolution of chip technology towards smaller and smaller geometries (as predicted in what has become known as Moore’s law). Side-effects of this miniaturization are that delays related to communication (i.e., wires) dominate over delays related to computation (i.e., transistors) and that delays are subject to increasing statistical variation. This represents a challenge in relation to synchronous operation and chip wide communication.
In this talk Jens Sparsø will give an overview of his research in the field of hardware platforms for cyber physical systems and directions for future research. The talk will have a particular focus on on-chip communication networks and self-timed circuit techniques that offer robustness towards timing uncertainty.
Abstract Inaugural lecture 20th May 2016 by Professor Paul Pop: Engineering the Internet of Important Things
Cyber-physical systems are evolving from static networked systems to dynamic systems-of-systems (such as, vehicle networks, smart grids, adaptive swarms, heterogeneous networks of autonomous systems) forming the “Internet of Important Things”. Such systems-of-systems are the key to new emerging markets, with high potential growth rates. However, the complexity of such cyber-physical systems is growing at a very high pace, and their constraints (for example, in terms of cost, performance, energy consumption and safety) are getting tighter. Therefore, the task of engineering such systems is becoming increasingly important and difficult at the same time. This talk will present recent research and projects at DTU in the area of systems engineering methods (such as, modeling, analysis, optimization) for safety-critical cyber-physical systems.