High-level modelling and automatic generation of dynamicaly reconfigurable systems

Ochoa, Gilberto; Bourennane, El-Bay; Rabah, Hassan; Labbani, Ouassila

doi:10.1109/dasip.2011.6136900

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“…Ochoa et al [91] proposes an approach based on MARTE, exploiting the capabilities of IP-XACT to model and automatically generate DPR SoC designs. IP-XACT is an XML format that defines and describes individual, reusable electronic circuits facilitating their use in creating integrated circuits.…”

Section: Combined Control and Handling Of Events With Architecture St...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Combined Control and Handling Of Events With Architecture St...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Podlubne¹,

Göhringer²

2023

IEEE Access

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“…Communication between components, based on IP-XACT, has been addressed in [2,16], which exploit IP-XACT to determine the correct configuration parameters for components that do not conform to standard interfaces or protocols. However, such methodologies are restricted to HDL descriptions modeled on the synchronous dataflow model of computation.…”

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“…IP-XACT has been introduced as a standard for describing component interfaces and communication styles [1]. It provides metamodel information about the IPs (i.e., the adopted interface and protocols), that can be used for integration, composition and configuration of already existing components [2,16]. However, state of the art methodologies focus on digital RTL or TLM designs, thus excluding a large part of components and domains included in heterogeneous embedded systems (e.g., analog components of embedded SW).…”

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The strange pair: IP-XACT and univerCM to integrate heterogeneous embedded systems

Braga

Fummi

Pravadelli

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT)

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Modern embedded systems require a tight integration among several heterogeneous components including digital and analog HW, as well as HW-dependent SW. In literature there is a lack of a complete approach, allowing reuse and at the same time supporting correct integration of heterogeneous components. Indeed, traditional approaches rely either on homogeneous top-down methodologies (that do not allow reuse) or on co-simulation (that does not guarantee correct integration). This paper proposes to combine IP-XACT and UNIVERCM. The former is an IEEE standard for specifying interface and communication style of digital IPs. The latter is a computational model that allows to represent the starting heterogeneous components in a homogeneous way. In this way, IP-XACT is used in this paper to support the integration of general heterogeneous components, to extract component interfaces and to generate the necessary connecting modules. Furthermore, UNIVERCM allows to generate a homogeneous representation of the components behavior (in a bottom-up flow) to allow simulation and validation of the generated components and of the final system. Thus, this strange pair allows integration and validation of system communication. The effectiveness of this novel approach has been proven on complex heterogeneous benchmarks.

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“…We make use of design descriptions for two purposes: for describing the top level architecture, as described in [16], but also to describe the implementation of customizable and DPR IPs. In IP-XACT, hierarchical components can be an instance of a given top-level design, but make reference to reference another design, describing its internal implementation sub-components.…”

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“…The methodology for IP customization is explained in more detail in this section. This work is an extension of the approach presented in [16], which was used for system generation of the top level description of the DPR design. As mentioned before, the DPR design flow requires, as inputs, the netlists for the top level design and for the reconfigurable IPs.…”

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Model-Driven Approach for Automatic Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable IP Customization

Ochoa-Ruiz¹,

Labbani-Narsis²,

Bourennane³

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops &Amp; PhD Forum

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This paper presents a framework which automates the generation of DPR capable IP cores. The approach is based in an MDE methodology, which exploits two widely used standards for Systems-on-Chip specification, UML/MARTE and IP-XACT. The approach aims at generating IPs which incorporate different functionalities by using code templates. The templates correspond to IP-XACT components that represent VHDL modules to be implemented in the IP. The IP-XACT subsystem description is generated from the MARTE description, effectively diminishing the complexity of creating this kind of systems by increasing the level of abstraction. We present the MARTE modeling concepts and how these models are mapped to IP-XACT objects; the emphasis is given to the generation of IP cores that can be used in the Xilinx EDK environment, since we aim to develop a complete flow around their Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration design flow. A model for the DPR IP is presented and a case study for a simple IP is presented. The use of our MDE approach is introduced to demonstrate how the generation from MARTE to EDK systems is performed.

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High-level modelling and automatic generation of dynamicaly reconfigurable systems

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

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

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

The strange pair: IP-XACT and univerCM to integrate heterogeneous embedded systems

Model-Driven Approach for Automatic Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable IP Customization

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