CS244 Winter 2012 Project Topics Research Survey Research Survey must include Brief introduction on the topic by referring to earliest work Advantages of the research topic Challenges Existing solutions in literature from earliest to most recent work and brief comparison Future trends and premises of the proposed research Complete reference list use ACM library and IEEE explore to access the papers 1 Embedded Memories Scratch Pad memories Sample paper Banakar R Steinke S Lee B Balakrishnan M and Marwedel P 2002 Scratchpad memory design alternative for cache on chip memory in embedded systems In Proceedings of the Tenth international Symposium on Hardware Software Codesign CODES 02 73 78 DOI http doi acm org 10 1145 774789 774805 2 Power Management in Embedded Processor through voltage frequency scaling Start paper Hong I Kirovski D Qu G Potkonjak M and Srivastava M B 1998 Power optimization of variable voltage core based systems In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Design Automation Conference 1998 DAC 98 176 181 DOI http doi acm org 10 1145 277044 277088 3 Code Optimization for Embedded Systems Sample paper imuni T Benini L De Micheli G and Hans M 2000 Source code optimization and profiling of energy consumption in embedded systems In Proceedings of the 13th international Symposium on System Synthesis 193 198 DOI http doi acm org 10 1145 501790 501831 4 Hardware software co simulation Sample paper Rowson J A 1994 Hardware software co simulation In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Design Automation Conference 1994 DAC 94 439 440 DOI http doi acm org 10 1145 196244 196458 5 Instruction Set Extensible Processors Sample Joseph A Fisher Customized Instruction Sets For Embedded Processors Design Automation Conference pp 253 257 36th Annual Conference on Design Automation DAC 99 1999 6 Network on Chip Sample paper On chip networks a scalable communication centric embedded system design paradigm by Henkel J Wolf W Chakradhar S Proceedings 17th International Conference on VLIS Design 2004 Page s 845 851 7 Energy harvesting in embedded systems Sample paper Vijay Raghunathan Kansal A Hsu J Friedman J Mani Srivastava Design considerations for solar energy harvesting wireless embedded systems Information Processing in Sensor Networks 2005 IPSN 2005 Fourth International Symposium on vol no pp 457 462 15 April 2005 Embedded System Application Survey Your survey should include explanation on the following aspects of application 1 Objective of the system 2 Characteristic and behavior 3 Define the intensity of embedded system oriented metrics such real time power portability cost battery life etc 4 HW and SW components 5 Different products in the market and their comparison For some products or all provide clock frequency power consumption battery life time etc 6 Its brief history 7 Its future trend and challenges Some examples are 1 Pedometer wireless with navigation energy saving motion tolerance etc 2 Pacemaker 3 GPS 4 Modem router 5 Mp3 players 6 Advanced security alarm 7 Fingerprint detection 8 Automotive applications 9 Many more examples in multimedia transportation medical and security Pick one that you are interested