The Citi laboratory (http://www.citi.insa-lyon.fr) has a grant for a
PhD Thesis. The research topic is the validation of software radio
reconfiguration algorithms through systemC simulation of hardware
platforms (more precise description below). The background required
is: compilation, system, processor architecture, C++
programming. Skills in parallel programming, signal processing
algorithms or hardware design can be useful too. Please send CV and
motivation letter to Tanguy.Risset@insa-lyon.fr before September 2008.

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Programming Tools and methodology for Software Radio SoC design   

The trend in modern telecommunication systems is the dynamic adaptation
of  physical layer communication protocols to the environment:
adapting protocol parameters or switching between protocols should be
done transparently to the user. With the increasing number of
communication path, choosing might be complicated and  devices has
to share resource to implement the various protocols, this is the
basic principle of software radio.

The Citi laboratory is working on these software radio topics as well
as on the efficient simulation of systems on chip in systemC through the OpenTLM
Minalogic project and the SocLib ANR platform. The PhD subject is to
use the systemC simulator to validate the hardware/software
architectures proposed for software radio reconfiguration and to
identify the programming tools that will be necessary for this
particular application.

As an example, it seems clear that the mapping of the different tasks
on the processors will have an important impact on the communication
volume occurring on the chip. A tool guiding  task and memory mapping
to optimize communications on the chip might be useful. The goal of
the PhD is to identify programming software radio programming
bottlenecks and to provide tools for these bottlenecks.

The experiments will take place either on the OpenTLM systemC
simulator (transaction system level modeling of a multi-processor chip
including a network on chip). If more precise performance evaluation
of the implementation is needed, the SocLib system platform might be
used (cycle accurate SoC simulation).   

The work will take place at the Citi Laboratory
(http://www.citi.insa-lyon.fr). The PhD advisor will be Tanguy Risset,
 and collaboration with the radio team
of the Citi working on physical radio protocols as well as OpenTLM
partners  (ST-microelectronics, Thompson,...)  will occur.

Compilation and Linux system skills are required, as well as a good
experience in C and C++. A technical part of the work will be to set
up simulation plate-forms and to interconnect various tools in Linux.
Micro-electronics skills (embedded programming, systemC modeling) as
well as signal processing background will be appreciated.

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