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Virtualization of Electronics Users Conference '08

VaST was proud to host ViEWcon 08, a one-day conference focused on automotive and wireless systems virtualization, on Dec. 8 at the Holiday Inn-City Centre in Munich. Attendees gained valuable insight into how others are using virtualization and VaST's revolutionary technology to change the way electronics systems are designed. Topics of discussion included:

• Architectural tradeoff analysis on cache size and its effect on cost and performance;
• Virtualization versus FPGA prototyping;
• The need for more speed due to the fact that the tools address use cases covering application software to low level driver development;
• SystemC transaction level modeling, accuracy and how much accuracy is needed;
• Trends in Automotive, including stats on ECU reduction;
• Challenges with dual-core and how virtualization can be used to solve software migration problems, resolve dual-core bugs such as deadlocks, race conditions, priority inversion, and starvation;
• Fault injection and how virtualization looks to be a promising and superior solution allowing white-box fault injection and simulation.

The event was very well attended with about 60 attendees, who shared challenges, experiences and solutions with fellow users.

Presentations

• Software or Hardware - Who's Driving the Bus? Paper | Slides
  Michael Paczan, VaST Systems Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO
• Multi-core system exploration with COMET Slides
  Jens Harnisch, Infineon Technologies AG
• From Concept to Product: Virtual Prototyping for Software Development of Mobile Platforms Slides
  Stefan Heinen, Klaus Mott, Bernd Wurth, Infineon WLS MPP

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