Hartes

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hArtes is a three year (2006-2009) research project (Integrated Project) funded by the IST programme of the European Commission.

1 Project Focus
2 Call objective summary
3 Project Participants
4 Basic Facts
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Project Focus

hArtes (holistic approach to real time reconfigurable embedded systems) aims to lay the foundation for a new holistic (end-to-end) approach for complex real-time embedded system design, with the latest algorithm exploration tools and reconfigurable hardware technologies.

From the application point of view, the complexity of future multimedia devices is becoming too big to design monolithic processing platforms. This is where the hArtes approach with reconfigurable heterogeneous system becomes vital.

The proposed approach will address, for the first time, optimal and rapid design of embedded systems from high-level descriptions, targeting a combination of embedded processors, digital signal processing and reconfigurable hardware. We will develop modular and scalable hardware platforms that can be reused and re-targeted by the tool chain to produce optimized real-time embedded products. The results will be evaluated using advanced audio and video systems that support next-generation communication and entertainment facilities, such as immersive audio and mobile video processing.

Innovations of our approach include:

support for both diagrammatic and textual formats in algorithm description and exploration
a framework that allows novel algorithms for design space exploration, which aims to automate design partitioning, task transformation, choice of data representation, and metric evaluation for both hardware and software components
a system synthesis tool producing near-optimal implementations that best exploits the capability of each type of processing element; for instance, dynamic reconfigurability of hardware can be exploited to support function upgrade or adaptation to operating conditions.

[edit] Call objective summary

As defined in the Embedded Systems Chapter of the IST 2005-06 Work Programme^[1] the objective is to “develop the next generation of technologies, methods and tools for modeling, design, implementation and operation of hardware/software systems embedded in intelligent devices. An end-to-end systems ( holistic) vision should allow building cost-efficient ambient intelligence systems with optimal performance, high confidence, reduced time to market and faster deployment”.

[edit] Project Participants

Participant Name	Type	Country
Atmel Roma	Enterprise	Italy
FAITAL	Enterprise	Italy
Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD)	Research	Germany
Imperial College	University	United Kingdom
INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control)	Reasearch	France
Leaff Engineering	SME	Italy
LIA (Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse)	University	France
Politecnico di Bari	University	Italy
Politecnico di Milano	University	Italy
Scaleo Chip	SME	France
Thales Communications SA	Enterprise	France
Thomson R&D	Enterprise	France
TU Delft (Technische Universiteit Delft)	University	The Netherlands
Univarsita' di Ferrara	University	Italy
Universita' Politecnica delle Marche	University	Italy

[edit] Basic Facts

Full Name: Holistic Approach to Reconfigurable real Time Embedded Systems
Type: Integrated Project
Contract Number: 035143
Keywords: holistic (end-to-end) approach, heterogeneous platforms, reconfigurable ProjectHW,tool boxes and tool chain, algorithm exploration, design space exploration, systemsynthesis, audio and video applications, consumer and professional applications
Budget: Total cost: 17.34 M€
Funding: 10.15 M€
Starting date: 1 September 2006
Duration: 3 years