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Authors:
Falko Guderian
Gerhard Fettweis
Keywords: embedded system design; system-level design; executable specification; design space exploration
Abstract:
The specification of system functionality and design space exploration (DSE) are becoming very challenging in embedded systems due to an increasing number of design parameters and system specifications during the design cycle. An executable system-level specification (SLS), proposed in this paper, reduces design complexity. The SLS represents an executable DSE methodology and encapsulates system specifications. The aim is to formalize and automate design flows in order to scale to larger and more complex embedded systems. SLSs should not be limited to certain embedded system types. Hence, SLSs need to be standardized across tools, designers, and domains. A meta-methodology, as well as a meta-model are proposed to define a domain-independent SLS. Moreover, an electronic design automation environment is presented allowing to graphically create, automatically execute and validate embedded domain-specific SLSs. Finally, a design flow case study demonstrates multiple SLSs for the heterogeneous multicluster architecture.
Pages: 17 to 22
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: August 19, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-426X
ISBN: 978-1-61208-213-4
Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012