1st Edition

Model-Based Design for Embedded Systems

    766 Pages 333 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    764 Pages 333 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The demands of increasingly complex embedded systems and associated performance computations have resulted in the development of heterogeneous computing architectures that often integrate several types of processors, analog and digital electronic components, and mechanical and optical components—all on a single chip. As a result, now the most prominent challenge for the design automation community is to efficiently plan for such heterogeneity and to fully exploit its capabilities.

    A compilation of work from internationally renowned authors, Model-Based Design for Embedded Systems elaborates on related practices and addresses the main facets of heterogeneous model-based design for embedded systems, including the current state of the art, important challenges, and the latest trends. Focusing on computational models as the core design artifact, this book presents the cutting-edge results that have helped establish model-based design and continue to expand its parameters.

    The book is organized into three sections: Real-Time and Performance Analysis in Heterogeneous Embedded Systems, Design Tools and Methodology for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip, and Design Tools and Methodology for Multidomain Embedded Systems. The respective contributors share their considerable expertise on the automation of design refinement and how to relate properties throughout this refinement while enabling analytic and synthetic qualities. They focus on multi-core methodological issues, real-time analysis, and modeling and validation, taking into account how optical, electronic, and mechanical components often interface.

    Model-based design is emerging as a solution to bridge the gap between the availability of computational capabilities and our inability to make full use of them yet. This approach enables teams to start the design process using a high-level model that is gradually refined through abstraction levels to ultimately yield a prototype. When executed well, model-based design encourages enhanced performance and quicker time to market for a product. Illustrating a broad and diverse spectrum of applications such as in the automotive aerospace, health care, consumer electronics, this volume provides designers with practical, readily adaptable modeling solutions for their own practice.

    Part I: Real-Time and Performance Analysis in Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
    Performance Prediction of Distributed Platforms
    SystemC-Based Performance Analysis of Embedded Systems
    Formal Performance Analysis for Real-Time Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
    Model-Based Framework for Schedulability Analysis Using UPPAAL
    Modeling and Analysis Framework for Embedded Systems
    TrueTime: Simulation Tool for Performance Analysis of Real-Time Embedded Systems

    Part II: Design Tools and Methodology for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip
    MPSoC Platform Mapping Tools for Data-Dominated Applications
    Retargetable, Embedded Software Design Methodology for Multiprocessor-Embedded Systems
    Programming Models for MPSoC
    Platform-Based Design and Frameworks: METROPOLIS and METRO II
    Reconfigurable Multicore Architectures for Streaming Applications
    FPGA Platforms for Embedded Systems

    Part III: Design Tools and Methodology for Multidomain Embedded Systems
    Modeling, Verification, and Testing Using Timed and Hybrid Automata
    Semantics of Domain-Specific Modeling Languages.
    Multi-Viewpoint State Machines for Rich Component Models
    Generic Methodology for the Design of Continuous/Discrete Co-Simulation Tools
    Modeling and Simulation of Mixed Continuous and Discrete Systems.
    Design Refinement of Embedded Mixed-Signal Systems
    Platform for Model-Based Design of Integrated Multi-Technology Systems
    CAD Tools for Multi-Domain Systems on Chips
    Smart Sensors Modeling Using VHDL-AMS for Microinstrument Implementation with a Distributed Architecture

    Biography

    Gabriela Nicolescu is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Ĕcole Polytechnique Montréal in Canada.

    Pieter J. Mosterman is a senior research scientist in the Design Automation department of MathWorks in Natick, Massachusetts, and an adjunct professor at the School of Computer Science of McGill University in Montréal, Canada.