An MDE Approach for Rapid Prototyping and Implementation of Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems

Ochoa-Ruiz, Gilberto; Gérard, Sébastien; Lamotte, Florent de; Rutten, Éric; Bourennane, El-Bay; Diguet, Jean-Philippe; Gogniat, Guy

doi:10.1145/2800784

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“…This approach was proposed in the context of static SoC designs [ 11 ] as well as for reconfigurable ones. In [ 12 , 13 ], the authors proposed an approach that has some similarities with ours. This approach is based on the transformation of MARTE models into IP-XACT descriptions to automatically generate reconfigurable systems code.…”

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A Model-Driven Platform for Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable Architectures: A Case Study of a Watermarking System

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The reconfigurable feature of FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) has made them a very attractive solution for implementing adaptive systems-on-chip. However, this implies additional design tasks to handle system reconfiguration and control, which increases design complexity. To address this issue, this paper proposes a model-driven design flow that guides the designer through the description of the different elements of a reconfigurable system. It is based on high-level modeling using an extended version of the MARTE (Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded systems) UML (Unified Modeling Language) profile. Both centralized and decentralized reconfiguration decision-making solutions are possible with the proposed flow, allowing it to adapt to various reconfigurable systems constraints. It also integrates the IP-XACT standard (standard for the description of electronic Intellectual Properties), allowing the designer to easily target different technologies and commercial FPGAs by reusing both high-level models and actual IP-XACT hardware components. At the end of the flow, the implementation code is generated automatically from the high-level models. The proposed design flow was validated through a reconfigurable video watermarking application as a case study. Experimental results showed that the generated system allowed a good trade-off between resource usage, power consumption, execution time, and image quality compared to static implementations. This hardware efficiency was achieved in a very short time thanks to the design acceleration and automation offered by model-driven engineering.

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confidence: 99%

A Model-Driven Platform for Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable Architectures: A Case Study of a Watermarking System

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“…In this case, IP-XACT is used as an intermediate model to configure the accelerators for DPR and to automate the system integration. This work was extended in [92] to permit the verification of the platform description at different stages in the development process.…”

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A Survey on Adaptive Computing in Robotics: Modelling, Methods and Applications

Podlubne¹,

Göhringer²

2023

IEEE Access

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Modern robots are complex heterogeneous systems composed of different Processing Elements (PEs) with multiple sensors and actuators. This implies that different experts are needed to build such systems. Traditionally, robots included Central Processing Units (CPUs) as their PE. However, this has been changing over the last decade as different PEs, namely Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), have drawn the attention of roboticists. The research community focused on various techniques, methodologies, and applications separately, making integration aspects highly complex. Models, as abstractions, have been proposed to aid in designing complex systems that can also help with integration. Hence, three complementary goals are discussed in this work. The first is which robotic applications benefit from parallelizable and energy-efficient devices such as GPUs and FPGAs. The second one is to understand the contributions of different model-based approaches. Lastly, how these two can complement each other to bring benefits from one field onto the other so hardware developers, as well as roboticists, can improve the design of state-of-the-art robotic platforms.INDEX TERMS Model-driven engineering (MDE), robotics, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (GPUs).

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“…e final MARTE model is transformed into IP-XACT intermediate description before generating Xilinx XPS specification files. A RecoMARTE-based framework for fast prototyping of DRSoCs is presented in [41]. While the authors focused on both application and architecture modeling before their mapping, the underlying case study only highlights the use of the Deployed stereotype to describe the allocation model.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Service-Oriented Component-Based Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration Modeling Targeting SystemC/TLM

Allem

Bourennane

Khelfaoui

2021

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

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To deal with the complex design issues of Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (DRSoCs), it is extremely relevant to raise the abstraction level in which models are expressed. A high abstraction level allows great flexibility and reusability while bypassing low-level implementation details. In this context, model-driven engineering (MDE) provides support to build and transform precise and structured models for a particular purpose at different levels of abstraction. Indeed, high-level models are successively refined to low-level models until reaching the executable ones. Thus, this paper presents an MDE-based framework for DRSoCs design enabling the transformation of UML/MARTE specifications to SystemC/TLM implementation. To achieve a high degree of expressiveness for modeling dynamic reconfiguration, we use a suitable software engineering approach based on service-oriented component architecture. Since MARTE does not cover the common features of dynamic reconfiguration domain and service orientation concepts, new stereotypes are created by refinement to add missing capabilities to the profile. Likewise, SystemC does not provide native support for dynamic reconfiguration, thus leading us to adopt a design pattern based solution for DRSoCs implementation in compliance with standards. The proposed framework is validated through a reconfigurable active 3-way crossover case study in which we demonstrate the practicability of the approach by gradual model transformations with reduced implementation effort and significant design productivity gain.

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An MDE Approach for Rapid Prototyping and Implementation of Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

A Model-Driven Platform for Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable Architectures: A Case Study of a Watermarking System

A Model-Driven Platform for Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable Architectures: A Case Study of a Watermarking System

A Survey on Adaptive Computing in Robotics: Modelling, Methods and Applications

A Service-Oriented Component-Based Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration Modeling Targeting SystemC/TLM

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