1. Signal Processing Prof. Brian L. Evans
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
EERC 6.882
Coffee hours F 12-2 pm EERC Café

2. Embedded Processors and Systems
Embedded system works
On application-specific tasks
“Behind the scenes” (little/no direct user interaction)
Units of consumer products shipped worldwide ‘16
1495M smart phones M digital media streamer
270M PCs/laptops M DVD/Blu-ray players
175M tablets M game consoles
77M cars/lt trucks M digital still cameras
How many embedded processors are in each?
How much should an embedded processor cost?
2015: iPhone6 $676 (16GB) $942 (128GB) w/o contract 5%
19% 6%
19%
15%
37% 6%
35%

3. Signals & Systems Signal Signal processing signalprocessingsociety.org
Carries information
Patterns of variations in physical quantity
Signal processing signalprocessingsociety.org
Generation, transformation and extraction of information
Algorithms with associated architectures and implementations
Applications related to processing information
Audio mixing board
IP camera
Wi-Fi access point
System
Manipulates, changes, records or transmits signals
Converts a signal into another

4. Digital Signal Processors In Products
Course Overview
Digital Signal Processors In Products
Communications
Biomedical
Wireless Wearable Multichannel EEG
Consumer audio
Microscopes
In-car entertainment
IP camera
Mixing board
Amp
MRI noise cancelling headphones
Tablets
Pro-audio
Multimedia

5. 20+ Courses Have EE 313 as Pre-req
Electronics and Integrated Circuits
EE 438 Fund. Electronic Circ. Lab
EE 438K Analog Electronics EE 338L Analog IC Design EE 460R Intro to VLSI Design EE 374K Biomedical Electronics
Communications, Networks, Signal Processing, Systems
EE 445S Real-Time Dig. Sig. Proc. Lab EE 351M Digital Signal Processing EE 461P Data Science Principles
EE 362K Into to Automatic Control EE 371R Digital Image Processing EE 379K-24 Data Science Laboratory EE 471C Wireless Communications Lab
Data Science & Machine Learning
Energy Systems and Renewable Energy
EE 341 Electric Drives and Motors
EE 462L Power Electronics Lab EE 362Q Power Quality and Harmonics EE 362R Renewable Energy EE 368L Power Apparatus Laboratory EE 369 Power Systems Engineering
Computer Architecture & Embedded Systems
EE 445L Embedded Systems Design Lab EE 445M Embedded & Real-Time Systems EE 445S Real-Time Dig. Sig. Proc. Lab

6. Related BS ECE Technical Cores
Comm/Networks/SigProc
Data Science Lab
Data Science Principles
Digital Signal Processing
Digital Image Processing
Wireless Communications Lab
Comp Arch/Embedded Proc
Embedded & Real-Time Systems
Digital System Design (FPGAs)
Computer Architecture
Introduction to VLSI Design
Workload rating (1-5 with 5 highest) Embedded Sys Des Lab F16
4.20 Embedded Sys Des Lab Sp17
4.06 Operating Systems F Computer Architecture F16
3.92 Wireless Comm. Lab F16
3.91 Computer Architecture Sp Analog Electronics Sp17
3.85 Power Systems Eng F16
3.84 Intro to Embedded Sys ** Sp Engineering Comm. ** Sp17
Courses with the highest workload at UT Austin?
Undergraduates may take graduate courses upon request and at their own risk 
** Averaged across all sections

7. Research Projects System Contribution SW release Prototype Funding
5 PhD and 3 MS students
27 PhD and 11 MS alumni
System
Contribution
SW release
Prototype
Funding
Cellular (LTE)
signal compression
Matlab
Huawei
large antenna array
LabVIEW
NI FPGA NI
Smart grid commun.
Interference reduction real-time testbeds
Freescale & TI modems
IBM, NXP, TI
Wi-Fi
interference reduction
Intel, NI
Underwater
large receive array
Lake testbed
ARL:UT
Camera
image acquisition
DSP/C
Intel,Ricoh
video acquisition
Android TI
Display
image halftoning C
HP, Xerox
video halftoning
Qualcomm
Design tools
distributed comp.
Linux/C++
Navy sonar
Navy, NI
DSP Digital Signal Processor FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array LTE Long-Term Evolution (cellular) PXI PCI Ext. for Instrumentation

8. Smart Phone Application Processors
Standalone app processors (Samsung)
Integrated baseband-app processors (Qualcomm)
iPhone5 (10+ cores)
Touchscreen: Broadcom (probably 2 ARM cores)
Apps: Samsung (2 ARM + 3 GPU cores)
Audio: Cirrus Logic (1 DSP core + 1 codec)
Wi-Fi: Broadcom
Baseband: Qualcomm
Inertial sensors: STMicroelectronics
Source: Strategy Analytics, 17 Feb 2016
42% Qualcomm, 21% Apple, 19% MediaTek, 8% Others.
Others: Broadcom (Avago), HiSilicon, Intel (1%), Marvell, Samsung LSI, Spreadtrum, Tegra (NVIDIA)
“iPhone 5 Tear Down”

9. Market for Application Processors
Tablets $2.3B ‘12, $3.6B ‘13, $4.2B ‘14, $2.7B ‘15
Phones $12.4B ‘12, $18.0B ‘13, $20.9B ‘14, $20.1B ’15
32% revenue of all microprocessors in 2013 (est.) [“Tablet and Cellphone Processors Offset PC MPU Weakness,” Aug 2013]
Tablet App Processor Market
Strategic Analytics, 17 Feb 2016
(1) Apple 31%, (2) Qualcomm 16%,
(3) Intel 14%, (4) MediaTek, and
(5) Samsung
Decline in 2015 due to strong competition from large screen smartphones

10. References Unit shipments worldwide Embedded processor resources
Blu-ray & DVD players:
Cars & light trucks:
Digital media streamers:
Digital still cameras:
iPhone5:
PCs/laptops:
Smart phones:
Tablets:
Video game consoles:
Embedded processor resources
Embedded Microproc. Benchmark Consortium:
Embedded processing comparison: