A MDA based SoC Modeling Approach using UML and SystemC

Wang, Ying; Zhou, Xiaoguo; Zhou, Bo; Liang, Liang; Peng, Chenglian

doi:10.1109/cit.2006.12

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“…In an alternative view, research efforts focus on the development of language-based approaches [8], [23]. Specifically, [8] proposed a co-design environment based on the Java language which supports specification, co-synthesis and prototype execution for dynamically reconfigurable hardware/software systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, it enables design and verification at the system level, independent of any detailed hardware and software implementation, as well as enabling co-verification with RTL design. Furthermore, SystemC is implemented as UML profile [23], dedicated to SoC modeling, to benefit from the power of UML modeling and to be used in MDA based approaches.…”

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An Environment for Design Software and Hardware Aspects of Clock Synchronization and Communication in DRTES

Hamid

Ziani

2010

2010 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing

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Complexity in Distributed Real time Embedded Systems (DRTES) is rising due to richer functionality that is enabled by more powerful hardware. Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Model Driven Engineering (MDE) help to capture several facets of this complexity. With these two approaches, we build on two main currents in embedded systems research: synchronization and communication.In this paper, we propose a DRTES meta-model to deal with software and hardware aspects of synchronization and communication at a model level. The elements of this meta-model will be used to describe software and hardware specifications and requirements using component as a first class artifact to build such systems. Each component type (generic component) has several instances and multiple views, principally software or hardware one with specific links. The link offers an interface to choose the map between a software and a hardware component at an even greater level using UML profiles derived from DRTES meta-model. This is to allow an automatic exploration at component instance level via Model Driven Engineering. As a proof of concept we examine a test case that has software and hardware synchronization and communication requirements: a GPS.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Environment for Design Software and Hardware Aspects of Clock Synchronization and Communication in DRTES

Hamid

Ziani

2010

2010 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing

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“…MARTES has taken some ideas from MDA, particularly, the separation of the application model from the target platform. Ying Wang et al [17] propose an MDA approach combining UML and SystemC in order to promote stepwise semiautomatic conversion from UML specification to executable SystemC code. They intend to build a smooth SoC design flow in which the implementation can be derived directly from the specification.…”

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confidence: 99%

Flexible, Open and Efficient Embedded Multimedia Systems

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Embedded Systems - High Performance Systems, Applications and Projects

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In this chapter, a Hw/Sw framework for SoC based embedded multimedia systems is described. In addition to the benefits inherited from the use of the FPGA technology, our solution is also based on the use of OpenMAX standard [1]. This allows building multimedia embedded systems in a reasonable time and, at the same time, being such systems fully reusable and portable.OpenMAX is an open standard promoted by the Khronos Group 1 which pursuits to reduce the cost and complexity of porting multimedia software to new processors and architectures. Since the OpenMAX standard provides an only software reference implementation, it has been necessary to revisit and redesign all the architectural concepts and protocols of OpenMAX for the heterogeneous embedded systems ecosystem; this means that the proposed framework is intended for hybrid (Hw/Sw) multimedia systems development. Therefore, a flexible and transparent mechanism to manage Hw/Sw interfacing is necessary. Moreover, to cope with the demanded temporal and computational requirements, it is mandatory to keep the overload introduced by the integration infrastructure to a minimum.The framework described in this work borrows the facilities provided by the Object Oriented Communication Engine (OOCE) [5]. OOCE is an heterogeneous middleware for SoCs. It provides basic and advanced in-chip communication services to transparently handle communication between the software and the hardware parts of an embedded system. In order to meet the performance levels demanded by multimedia systems, in this work we have extended OOCE with new features and some optimizations. The framework also follows a design approach based on MDA (Model Driver Architecture, [6]), in order to ease the design workflow (as it is stated in the "MDA manifest" [7]). The main purpose of the framework is then raising the level of abstraction when defining the multimedia system, in order to facilitate the automatization of the design, analysis and verification through the use of executables models.

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“…In recent years, model based system level design has gained considerable attention in multiprocessor system-on-chip, since it simplifies the application behaviour and reveals the top-level structure of the behaviour, abstracting out the low-level details [4]. A critical issue for MPSoC design is to evaluate the expected performance, early in the design process before hardware implementation [5] and hence real-time scheduling and schedulability analysis for multiprocessor systems have become an important research area [6].…”

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Schedulability Analysis for Rate Monotonic Algorithm-Shortest Job First Using UML-RT

Pushpa

Devasikamani

2014

Modelling and Simulation in Engineering

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System modelling with a unified modelling language (UML) is an active research area for developing real-time system development. UML is widely used modelling language in software engineering community, to specify the requirement, and analyse the target system successfully. UML can be used to provide multiple views of the system under design with the help of a variety of structural and behavioural diagrams at an early stage. UML-RT (unified modelling language-real time) is a language used to build an unambiguous executable specification of a real-time system based on UML concepts. This paper presents a unified modeling approach for a newly proposed rate monotonic scheduling algorithm-shortest job first (RMA-SJF) for partitioned, semipartitioned and global scheduling strategies in multiprocessor architecture using UML-RT for different system loads. As a technical contribution, effective processor utilization of individual processors and success ratio are analyzed for various scheduling principles and compared with EDF and D EDF to validate our proposal.

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A MDA based SoC Modeling Approach using UML and SystemC

Cited by 17 publications

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An Environment for Design Software and Hardware Aspects of Clock Synchronization and Communication in DRTES

An Environment for Design Software and Hardware Aspects of Clock Synchronization and Communication in DRTES

Flexible, Open and Efficient Embedded Multimedia Systems

Schedulability Analysis for Rate Monotonic Algorithm-Shortest Job First Using UML-RT

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