Code No.

A6806
NR
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD
M .Tech. I Semester Regular Examinations, March – 2009
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN
(VLSI & Embedded Systems)

Time: 3 hours Max. Marks.60

Answer any Five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Enumerate on various co-design architectures.

b) Explain in detail distributed system co – synthesis.

2.a) Explain about architecture specialization techniques.

b) Discuss about the non functional constraints in Embedded system
design.

3.a) Explain the architecture for data dominated systems?

b) Write about weaver prototyping Environment.

4.a) Discuss in detail modern embedded architectures.

b) What are the practical considerations in a compiler development
environment.?

5.a) Differentiate between blocking and non blocking operations.

b) Write short notes on
(i) Design Verification
(ii) Implementation Verification
(iii) Verification tools
(iV) Interface Verification

6.a) Write notes on design representation for system level synthesis.

b) Write short notes on automatic generation of co-simulation
interfaces.

7.a) Explain about the new approaches in cosyma.

b) Write notes on design space Exploration with LYCOS?

8. Write short notes on:

(a) Hierarchical concurrent Finite state machine
(b) Language oriented intermediate forms
(c) RPC
(d) Future developments in Emulation and proto typing
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