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Industrial Needs
of CPS Education
Jeff C. Jensen
Senior Product Manager, Real-Time Systems
National Instruments
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The Impact of Great Engineering
Saving time,
effort, and money.
Improving quality
of life.
Averting catastrophic
damage.
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Diversity of Applications
No Industry >15% of Revenue
Telecom
ATE
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Academic
Military/
Aerospace
Automotive
Advanced
Research
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Semiconductors
Electronics
Computers
Petrochemical
Food
Processing
Textiles
Engineering Grand Challenges
Advance health informatics
Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
Reverse-engineer the brain
Provide energy from fusion
Engineer better medicines
Provide access to clean water
Enhance virtual reality
Improve urban infrastructure
Advance personalized learning
Make solar energy economical
Prevent nuclear terror
Secure cyberspace
Manage the nitrogen cycle
Develop carbon sequestration
methods
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Escalating Complexity Over Time
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Escalating Complexity of Concepts
CPS
Source: http://cyberphysicalsystems.org
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“Today’s students are
familiar with abstraction,
and virtual worlds, it’s
physical intuition and real
world constraints that are
foreign”
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Dr. Mark A. Horowitz
EE Chair, Stanford
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Scalable Software Abstraction
Abstraction
System Design Platform
Java
C++
C
Assembly Language
Machine Code
System Complexity
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Abstraction to the Pin
VHDL
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Graphical System Design
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The Power of Abstraction
Lego
Mindstorms
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Graphical System
Design
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CERN Large
Hadron Collider
“Today’s students are
familiar with abstraction,
and virtual worlds, it’s
physical intuition and real
world constraints that are
foreign”
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Dr. Mark A. Horowitz
EE Chair, Stanford
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ACQUIRE
SIGNAL
ENTER FILTER
PARAMETERS
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SPECIFY
TRANSITION
FREQUENCIES
Plant Model
Controller
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Controller Model
Network Model
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Plant Model
Formal Verification
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Proposed New Tool
2 engineers
1 year
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Physical Intuition Is Emphasized
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Design Tradeoffs
Statecharts
PTIDES
Continuous Time
Analyzable
Expressive
Hybrid Systems
Discrete Event
Signals Always Present
Synchronous Reactive
Signals Possibly Absent
Continuous Time
Discrete Time-Triggered
Time-Distributed Events
Timestamps and synchronization
for computing with time
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Giotto
Instantaneous Events
Untimed (clock-triggered) execution
for predictability and analyzability
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Model Physical
Processes
Derive & Refine
Control
Algorithm
Test, Verify,,
Validate
Cyber
Physical
Design
Choose Models
Ch
of Computation
Simulate
Specify
Hardware
Source: Jeff C. Jensen, Danica H. Chang, and Edward A. Lee; “A Model-Based Design Methodology for Cyber-Physical Systems”
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Domain-Specific Software Interoperability
Simulink®
MultiSim
SCADE
LabVIEW
Modelica
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is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.
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Application Space
Application Instance
API Platform
Specification
Arch. Platform
Design-Space
Exploration
Platform Instance
Architectural Space
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Think Platform.
Invest in a platform-based approach to help you
more easily adapt to changing requirements and
technology over time.
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Model-Based Design for Cyber-Physical Systems
Verification & Validation
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UC Berkeley MOOC
UC BerkeleyX EECS149.1x Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems
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Edward A. Lee
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Sanjit A. Seshia
Jeff C. Jensen
National Instruments – Our Commitment
We equip engineers and scientists with tools that
accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery.
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Do Cyber
Do Physical
Do Engineering
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