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The Adelaide Tech Days Seminar will be held at Innovation House, Technology Park in Adelaide on Wednesday the 25rd March. Lunch will be provided and you are invited to attend as many presentations as your schedule allows. Attendance is free but spaces are limited, please register using the form at the bottom of this page.

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Presentations

 ‘MODERNISING MODELLING, SIMULATION & TRAINING SYSTEMS’ - by Dr Howard Wang (RTI)

 ‘VERIFYING MULTICORE TIMING BEHAVIOR FOR DO-178C’ - by Dr Guillem Bernat

 ‘SECURE THE CREATION OF NEXT-GENERATION DIGITAL SYSTEMS, ON EARTH & BEYOND’ - by Kiran Kumar (Wind River)

 ‘NEXT GENERATION GRAPHICS – GPU SHADER AND COMPUTE LIBRARIES’ - by Robert Pickles (CoreAVI)

 ‘LEFT SHIFT EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT & TESTING’ - by Kiran Kumar (Wind River)

 ‘SCALING WITH QT, FROM DESIGN TO DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF MODERN HMI’ - by Sumitabh Ghosh (Qt)

 ‘SYSTEM ENGINEERING: REQUIREMENTS TO ARCHITECTURE TO SIMULATION’ - by Alex Shin (MathWorks)

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WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

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‘MODERNISING MODELLING, SIMULATION & TRAINING SYSTEMS’

The modern field training paradigm requires rapidly-deployable, secure simulated environments.  Modelling, Simulation, and Training (MS&T) systems need to be assembled and reconfigured in an agile manner from ready-made, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components with response times closely matched to real-world scenarios. High-fidelity simulation data must be sourced across a wide range of public, private and multinational operations sources. This is driving a core requirement to secure that data in order to prevent unauthorised access to both intellectual property and information sources across local and remote operations arenas and up to the cloud-based networks. On top of these challenges, there is a growing pressure for accelerated deployment of new MS&T scenarios to keep warfighters prepared for combat.

Consistent, repetitive exposure to simulated environments is the proven way to train warfighters in order for their reaction time and skills to become muscle memory, reflexive and honed. Effective training requires a system that provides true, high-fidelity simulations with response times closely matched to real-world scenarios. The most realistic training comes from using the same technology that is used in systems deployed in the real world. Yet there are challenges in creating a simulated, real-world scenario with several distributed components from an array of suppliers using different simulation standards.

This presentation describes how a standards-based communications framework can provide a framework for modern warfare training. It uses a multi-level secure (MLS) data architecture to address the challenges of integrating a wide range of MS&T systems, resulting in accelerated creation and delivery of impactful training simulations.

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‘VERIFYING MULTICORE TIMING BEHAVIOR FOR DO-178C’

The avionics industry is moving towards the use of multicore systems to meet the demands of modern avionics applications. To use these systems in mission or safety-critical contexts, their “worst-case” timing behavior must be verified for DO-178C certification. Existing techniques to verify software timing behavior are unsuitable to analyse multicore systems as they do not consider interference effects caused by contention for shared resources, which can have significant effects on software timing behavior and are often only discovered when analysing a system in-depth.

We describe a novel approach to characterise multicore systems, identify interference channels in them and produce evidence of multicore software timing behavior that takes interference effects into account and supports DO-178C compliance. The approach follows a V-model based methodology in which high- and low-level requirements for the analysis are defined before designing and implementing tests and producing verification results using the Rapita Verification Suite (RVS) software. Tests are supported by RapiDaemons; small applications that create a configurable degree of contention on shared resources.

We also present a case study that demonstrates use of the approach to study the timing behavior of the Darknet YOLOv3 application running on an NVIDIA Jetson TX2. Having identified requirements that the maximum slowdown for the software is 5X, the process was applied to study the effects of L3 cache contention from competing CPU cores on the software’s timing behavior and conclude that the software was robust to L3 cache contention when up to 3 CPU cores were applying sustained accesses to the L3 cache. The approach we describe provides a method to support DO-178C compliance for multicore systems, supporting their adoption for use in avionics systems.

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‘SECURE THE CREATION OF NEXT-GENERATION DIGITAL SYSTEMS, ON EARTH & BEYOND’

Our industry is facing real challenges. Systems that have been in use for decades are now needing to be replaced or upgraded. There is a lot of investment in these systems that still have functional value. Yet the technology around these systems has advanced, making older architectures obsolete and upgradeability difficult or impossible, while modern design methods and practices and newer technologies enable real advances for embedded systems. This creates a vast gap between existing legacy systems and the future of modernised embedded systems.

In this session you will learn about how Wind River technologies bridge legacy with future embedded systems design in a way that maintains the requirements of embedded systems and enables the richness of future opportunities from advancing technologies/trends and much more…

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‘NEXT GENERATION GRAPHICS – GPU SHADER AND COMPUTE LIBRARIES’

Embedded Graphics libraries have evolved from OpenGL to next gen Vulkan libraries.
OpenCL and CUDA have been used for many years for GPU compute on a range of SoC devices with powerful embedded GPU chipsets.
OpenCL and CUDA were never able to be certified, due to the contributions from many developers.

Next generation autonomous vehicles, unmanned aircraft, transportation and even military vehicles will require both graphics, as well as GPU compute to implement DSP or FPGA logic is software, as well as Deep Machine Learning.

Vulkan libraries are available now and are defined by the Kronos Group, as well as this, a next generation of Vulkan safety critical library for safe Shader and GPU Compute is now available.

This presentation will look at Vulkan architectures, embedded system use and the implications for using GPU Compute, where certification may be a critical requirement for ISO 26262, EN50182, IEC 61508, DO178C certifiable embedded systems.

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‘LEFT SHIFT EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT & TESTING’

Traditional Embedded Software development follows the model of Architectural study, board design, software development, Integration & testing, deploy and maintain. There are quite a few challenges at every stage in this approach which will stretch the software release cycles.

In this session you will learn about how Wind River Simulation technologies help move from physical hardware to a virtual lab, and how embedded software teams can revolutionise crucial aspects of their processes, enabling them to deliver better software faster.

“To see is to believe”, Watch out for interesting Live demos during the session…

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‘SCALING WITH QT, FROM DESIGN TO DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF MODERN HMI’

User experience (UX) is a term you cannot avoid these days. That’s because an excellent UX can more easily provide something that most other facets of your business cannot – a direct path to the customer’s heart, success of powerhouse companies like Apple and Tesla is dependent on their UX. An overwhelmingly positive user experience creates legions of dedicated customers and has the power to elevate your company into a cult-like brand. Qt framework is your perfect partner in making your intuitive designs a reality on a Desktop or an Embedded product.

Qt’s cross-platform framework and tools make development teams more productive and lets them focus on what makes your product stand out from the rest by making sure your UI is stable and performance centric that runs optimally on any platform. Qt offers you modern, responsive 2D and 3D user interfaces that exceed user expectations and it ensures consistent branded or native look and feel across target devices.

With high expectations from users from digital screens in every domain be it Automotive, Medical or Consumer Electronics Qt streamlines your workflows at every stage of your project and thus shortens the time to market. With Qt, Designers create and iterate prototypes on production grade hardware thus significantly shortening the Design – > Development life cycle.

Qt’s high scalability lets you save a lot of cost by giving you the freedom to choose the hardware from a low cost MCU based platform on BareMetal environment to Full-fledged MPU based platform running Embedded Linux/RTOS.

And yes, Qt’s C++ based framework delivers fast performance as well as provides flexibility to work with other technologies seamlessly. With a developer base of more than a million worldwide there always a Qt developer available when you need them.

This talk will take you through the journey of using Qt’s tools from Designing a static UI in a design software to creating a responsive UI prototype and deploying it on a live hardware for verification and testing. It will also touch upon the latest and greatest Qt has to offer from a commercial licensing perspective.

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‘SYSTEM ENGINEERING: REQUIREMENTS TO ARCHITECTURE TO SIMULATION’

System engineering and model-based system engineering can mean different things to different groups, but most definitions share a common set of concepts, including starting from a set of system-level requirements used to drive a system decomposition and requirements allocation process. Then trade studies are performed on system architecture alternatives to produce a candidate architecture from which the design is developed and then simulated to verify the requirements are met.

This presentation shows how MATLAB® and Simulink® support this workflow when combined with Simulink Requirements™ and System Composer™ by allowing users to:

• Capture, view, analyse, and manage requirements
• Develop a system architecture model from the requirements, existing Simulink models, ICDs, and externally created architectures or combinations of the above
• Examine the system architecture model using different views for different concerns
• Allocate (link) requirements to architectural components and perform coverage and change impact analysis
• Perform trade studies to compare, assess, or optimize the system architecture
• Design components specified in the system architecture model, Simulate the system composition to verify system-level behaviour

 

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