A Model Driven-Based Approach for Managing Unanticipated Runtime Adaptation of RTE Systems

Fredj, Nissaf; Kacem, Yessine Hadj; Abid, Mohamed

doi:10.1109/pdcat46702.2019.00064

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“…A DRS is considered in [5] as a system whose subsystems can be modified or have their settings modified during operation to achieve a specific goal. In software engineering, adaptive systems assimilated to DRS are subject to behavior or structure adaptation at runtime in response to unplanned or planned execution changes (user requirements, resources limitations, and environmental conditions) [6]. Most reconfigurable systems are based on FPGA (field-programmable gate array) technology; their dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) capability enables reconfiguring parts of them during runtime without the need to stop the device.…”

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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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