Agenda:
9.00 -
Registration/Meet Exhibitors
9.30 - 10.15
Noise Reduction, Echo Cancellation and Signal Enhancement - Being Heard !
10.15
- 11.00
Developing Production Embedded Software using Simulink
Tea break
11.15
- 12.00 Using a Real-Time Kernel for Automotive Control.
Sit Down Lunch
12.45
- 1.30
The Design of A Stolen Vehicle Tracking Transceiver : Squeezing a Quart into a Pint Pot.
1.30 - 2.15
Automotive Telematics: Managing and Developing Complex Embedded Systems
Tea break
2.30 - 3.15
Using and Customizing the UML 2 for AUTOSAR
3.15 - 4.00
Improving the Predictability of your Code
Noise Reduction, Echo Cancellation and Signal Enhancement - Being Heard !
Nathan Blundy - NCT Time: 9.00
- 09.45
Whether you're Jenson Button on track in Montreal or simply yourself, using your handsfree system whilst driving, their is a lot of technology required to ensure your voice is heard with optimum clarity over the noise of the engine, the road noise and the thousands cheering.
This presentation will discuss the challenges faced by communication developers working with in-vehicle communications and how DSP technology is being applied to reduce noise, cancel out echo and enhance voice signals. This presentation will also discuss the emergence of Interactive Voice Recognition within cars and the critical role that this DSP technology will play in helping the system understand the driver. 
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Developing Production Embedded Software using Simulink
Dr Mohamed Anas - The MathWorks Time: 9.45
- 10.30
Production code generation is fundamentally changing the way engineers work. Instead of writing thousands of lines of code by hand, engineers are using The MathWorks products to generate code automatically for powertrain ECUs, HEV electronics, UAV autopilots, and commercial aircraft avionics — all at the click of a button.
This presentation will describe how you can use Simulink and Stateflow to create executable specifications and automatically generate embedded software from them using Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder. It will include examples of floating and fixed-point code generation and will discuss the techniques available for verification and validation. It will also briefly explore the role of Model Based Design in meeting today's engineering challenges and consider its advantages over traditional, document-based design methods.
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Teabreak / Technical Demonstrations.
Time:11.00 - 11.15
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Using a Real-Time Kernel for Automotive Control
Nicklas Gustafson - Enea Embedded Technology
Time: 11.15
- 12.00
As in vehicle control systems have become more complex, the demands of software development have increased. In addition to more complex functions, more i/o, more user interaction and wired and wireless capabilities - developers are often under time to market pressures and have safety and performance criteria to meet.
This presentation will discuss how "off the shelf" realtime operating systems can enable the fast development of complex, safety critical embedded systems. It will look at the common features of operating systems and the powerful tools available to support them.
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12.00 - 12.45 :
A Buffet Lunch will be provided and you will then have the opportunity to speak with the sponsors of the event and to view demonstrations of their technology.
There will be a collection of key industry vendors exhibiting alongside the seminar and delegates will have the opportunity to meet with them and the presenting companies to discuss their new technologies and view demonstrations. Click here for more information...
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The Design of A Stolen Vehicle Tracking Transceiver : Squeezing a Quart into a Pint Pot.
Bill Garland - Plextek
Time: 12.45 - 1.00
The need for a small, low power, covertly installed, digital VHF radio
transceiver places many, often conflicting restraints on the design. In
the past such designs would have needed to resort to expensive ASIC or
DSP based solutions. However, as modern, low cost micro-controllers have
become more powerful, with richer integrated peripherals, it is now
possible to implement an entirely software based radio modem without
compromising performance.
This presentation will discuss many of the issues faced in trying to
target some quite sophisticated algorithms onto an off-the-shelf
microcontroller. The design had to be flexible enough to allow it to be
deployed worldwide. The volumes involved meant that every cent on the
bill of materials had to be justified. And, just to make things
interesting, we had a little over 12 months to get the design from the
drawing board, through type approval and into production.
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Automotive Telematics: Managing and Developing Complex Embedded Systems
Adam Mackay
Time: 1.00 - 1.45
The automotive industry spends an enormous amount of effort and money to understand and track critical business operations, such as manufacturing, inventory and logistics, but they have little insight into software development. Will a project arrive on time? Is it defect-free and secure? Are the coders focusing on and delivering the right components?
Historically this was not too much of a problem as most embedded software was only a small part of a particular electronics package. However, embedded systems are now expected to form an integral part of the car and form much larger and more complex distributed systems. A prime example is the growing role of telematics in cars. With these complex embedded systems, traditional development and management techniques cannot keep pace with the market demand for innovation.
In order to try to satisfy the insatiable desire for rapid software development while maintaining a secure, reliable and well tested code base it is necessary to implement robust and scalable code management and monitoring solutions. This presentation will focus on the process implementation and tool selection together with a real world application and use of such tools.
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Time: 2.15- 2.30
Teabreak / Technical Demonstrations.
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Using and Customizing the UML 2 for AUTOSAR
Time: 2.30 - 3.15
Ralph Haines - Artisan Software
In order to standardize the electronic development in the automotive
area, the AUTOSAR partnership was founded by ten OEMs and major automotive suppliers. Goals are standardized interfaces for software components, a basic software core and a standardized microcontroller abstraction. The language of choice would be the UML, because of its adaptability and similar basic goals. Using the UML, the basic structure of the Autosar concepts -as they are defined and publicly available- and a suggestion for an Autosar profile will be presented.
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Improving the Predictability of your Code
Richard Copeman - Lauterbach
Time: 3.15
- 4.00
The automotive developer needs to produce designs that will be manufactured in extremely high volume with outstanding levels of reproducibility and quality. We will show how use of techniques to analyse the detailed behaviour of the processor can improve your system performance and predictability.
Cache analysis will show you how to improve the ratios of cache hits, misses and victims. Customers have found that this can improve system performance by over 20%.
At the next level you can also analyse the time your processor is stalled awaiting response from external memory. Again often minor changes to the code can result in major improvements in performance and predictability of the system timing.
Detailled analysis of the behaviour of your processor branch prediction unit will also improve the system performance.
Many automotive processors use a second core called TPU or eTPU, we will show how this can be debugged using the tools in multicore mode.
In addition to the presentation we will be running live demonstrations of all of the above capabilities on Freescale MPC5554 and MPC565 (or later variants if available) so you can explore any aspect in more detail.
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