Reiner Hartenstein
ABSTRACT
More than 98% of all microprocessors are found within embedded systems. The British Department of Trade and Industry predicts, that by the year 2010 more than 90% of all program code will be implemented for embedded applications. But the qualification of our "typical" CS (and CIT) graduates is torpedoed by deficits of our current computer architecture education limiting the horizon to procedural programming in the time domain. However, meanwhile the fundamental machine model is no more just the "von Neumann" paradigm merely supporting an instruction-stream-based mind set. For embedded systems the basic model is a symbiosis between CPU and primarily data-stream-based accelerator co-processors. Implementing applications for embedded systems also requires hardware / software partitioning decisions. Since meanwhile morphware [1] [2] and Reconfigurable Computing (RC) has become mainstream, also the accelerators are programmable by loading configware code downto their hidden RAM [3]. What is urgently needed is the qualification for programming in time (programming software) <u>and</u> programming in space (programming configware). But currently the software for the CPU is mainly implemented by software people, whereas the accelerators are implemented by EEs or other hardware people.
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- The changing role of computer architecture education within CS curricula: invited presentation
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