(WINTER 2010)

A required course in the Specialized Studies Program in Device Software Engineering.
This course takes participants through the hardware and software development process showing the value of co-simulation. Participants learn how, when, where and why using co-simulation is a valuable tool for today's development of embedded systems. Topics include: Parallel development and leveraging co-simulation to convert the engineering process from being serial to parallel, the state of co-simulation tools and what to expect, understand how to reduce risks in your products before they are produced via co-simulation, reasonable expectations from the tools and costs. Prerequisite: Familiarity with embedded systems design or equivalent experience. See enrollment confirmation for login information.

Aaron Baranoff, B.A., co-founder, MataiTech LLC, has been developing software and drivers for embedded microprocessors as well as WINDOWS and LINUX for over 20 years. He has extensive experience designing and delivering portable device drivers for multiple platforms and architectures including co-simulation environments. Baranoff also has extensive field and lab experience. The drivers he has developed have been used in many products, and have been used in conjunction with VxWorks, VRTX, PSOS, Windows, Linux, and many other operating systems that are both real time and non real time. Baranoff also has ASIC and FPGA design experience.