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[96] | 4 | The CAIRN group is an INRIA - Bretagne Atlantique project and a part of IRISA, UMR |
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| 5 | 6074. CAIRN members are affiliated from University of Rennes\~1 or Ecole Normale |
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| 6 | Supérieure de Cachan. the goal of CAIRN is to study reconfigurable system-on-chip, |
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| 7 | i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during execution. |
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| 8 | To this end, CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three angles: |
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| 9 | the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development of associated |
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| 10 | transformation, compilation and synthesis tools, and the exploration of the interaction |
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| 11 | between algorithms and architectures. |
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| 14 | \subsubsection{\lip} |
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[61] | 15 | The Compsys group of Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon is a project-team |
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| 16 | of INRIA Rh\^one-Alpes and a part of Laboratoire de l'Informatique du |
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[92] | 17 | Parall\'elisme (LIP), UMR 5668 of CNRS. It has four permanent researchers |
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[61] | 18 | and a variable number of PhD students and post-docs. Its field of |
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| 19 | expertise is compilation for embedded system, optimizing compilers |
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| 20 | and automatic parallelization. It has authored or contributed to |
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| 21 | several well known libraries for linear programming, polyhedra manipulation |
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| 22 | and optimization in general. It has strong industrial cooperations, notably |
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| 23 | with ST Microelectonics and Thales. |
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| 27 | \subsubsection{\tima} |
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[82] | 28 | The TIMA laboratory ("Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics |
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| 29 | for integrated systems Architecture") is a public research laboratory |
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| 30 | sponsored by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UMR5159), |
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[96] | 31 | Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) and Universitᅵ Joseph Fourier |
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[82] | 32 | (UJF). |
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| 33 | The research topics cover the specification, design, verification, test, |
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| 34 | CAD tools and design methods for integrated systems, from analog and |
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| 35 | digital components on one end of the spectrum, to multiprocessor |
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| 36 | Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end. |
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[82] | 38 | Currently, the lab contains 124 persons among whom 60 PhD candidates, and runs |
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| 39 | 32 ongoing French/European funded projects. |
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| 40 | Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 start ups, patented 36 inventions |
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| 41 | and had 243 PhD thesis defended. |
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| 43 | The System Level Synthesis Group (25 people including PhDs) is |
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| 44 | involved in several FP6, FP7, CATRENE and ANR projects. |
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| 45 | Its field of expertise is in CAD and architecture for Multiprocessor |
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| 46 | SoC and Hardware/Software interface. |
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[64] | 51 | The Lab-STICC (Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information, |
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| 52 | de la Communication, et de la Connaissance), is a French CNRS laboratory |
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| 53 | (UMR 3192) that gathers 4 research centers in the west and south |
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[96] | 54 | Brittany; from the Universitᅵ de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universitᅵ de |
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[64] | 55 | Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), and Telecom Bretagne (ENSTB). |
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| 56 | \\ |
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| 57 | The Lab-STICC is composed of three departments: Microwave and equipments (MOM), |
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| 58 | Digital communications, Architectures and circuits (CACS) and Knowledge, |
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| 59 | information and decision (CID). The Lab-STICC represents a staff of 279 |
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| 60 | people, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD students. |
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| 61 | The scientific production during the last 4 years represents 20 |
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| 62 | books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22 |
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| 63 | patents, 69 PhDs diploma. |
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| 64 | \par |
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| 65 | The UBS/Lab-STICC laboratory is involved in several national research |
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| 66 | projects (e.g. RNTL : SystemC'Mantic, EPICURE - RNRT : MILPAT, ALIPTA, |
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| 67 | A3S - ANR : MoPCoM, SoCLib, Famous, RaaR, AFANA, Open-PEOPLE, ICTER ...), |
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| 68 | CMCU project (COSIP) and regional projects (e.g. ITR projects PALMYRE |
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| 69 | ...). It is also involved in European Project (e.g. ITEA/SPICES, |
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| 70 | IST/AETHER ...). These projects are conducted through tight cooperation |
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| 71 | with national and international companies and organizations (e.g. France |
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| 72 | Telecom CNET, MATRA, CEA, ASTRIUM, THALES Com., THALES Avionics, AIRBUS, |
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| 73 | BarCo, STMicroelectronics, Alcatel-Lucent ...). Results of those or former |
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| 74 | projects are for example the high-level synthesis tool GAUT, the UHLS |
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| 75 | syntax and semantics-oriented editor, the DSP power estimation tool |
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| 76 | Soft-explorer or the co-design framework Design Trotter. |
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| 79 | The CACS department of the Lab-STICC (also referred as UBS/Lab-STICC), |
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| 80 | located in Lorient, is involved in COACH. |
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| 81 | The UBS/Lab-STICC is working on the design of complex electronic systems |
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| 82 | and circuits, especially but not exclusively focussing on real-time |
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| 83 | embedded systems, power and energy consumption optimization, high-level |
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| 84 | synthesis and IP design, digital communications, hardware/software |
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| 85 | co-design and ESL methodologies. The application targeted by the |
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| 86 | UBS/Lab-STICC are mainly from telecommunication and multimedia domains |
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| 87 | which enclose signal, image, video, vision, and communication processing. |
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[62] | 92 | University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) is the largest university in France (7400 employees,38000 students). |
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| 93 | The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) is the computer science laboratory of UPMC, hosting |
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| 94 | more than 400 researchers, under the umbrella of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). |
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[96] | 95 | The ᅵ System on Chip ᅵ Department of LIP6 consists of 80 people, including 40 PHD students. |
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[62] | 96 | The research focus on CAD tools and methods for VLSI and System on Chip design. |
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[62] | 98 | The annual budget is about 3 M{\texteuro}, and 1.5 M{\texteuro} are from research contracts. |
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| 99 | The SoC department has been involved in several european projects :IDPS, EVEREST, OMI-HIC, OMI-MACRAME, |
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| 100 | OMI-ARCHES, EUROPRO, COSY, Medea SMT, Medea MESA, Medea+ BDREAMS, Medea+ TSAR. |
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| 101 | The public domain VLSI CAD system ALLIANCE, developped at UPMC is installed in more than 200 universities worldwide. |
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| 102 | The LIP6 is in charge of the technical coordination of the SoCLib national project, and is hosting |
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[79] | 103 | the SoCLib WEB server. |
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[97] | 104 | In the SoCLin platform, the DSX tool is used for design space exploration. |
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| 105 | It helps the system designer to describe the coarse grain parallelism of the software application |
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| 106 | as a Task and Communication Graph, to configure the hardware architecture, and to map the |
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| 107 | multi-task software application on the multi-processors architecture. |
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| 108 | The DSX toll will be extended to support the FPGA target. |
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| 109 | Moreover, the LIP6 developped during the last 10 years the UGH tool for high level synthesis |
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| 110 | of control-dominated coprocessors. |
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| 111 | This tool will be modified to be integrated in the Coach design flow. |
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[62] | 112 | Even if the preferred dissemination policy for the Coach design flow will be the free software policy, |
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| 113 | (following the SoCLib model), the SoC department is ready to support start-ups : Six startup companies |
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| 114 | (including FLEXRAS) have been created by former researchers from the SoC department of LIP6 between 1997 and 2002. |
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