Domain-Specific Programming Environment for Heterogeneous Multicore Embedded Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Syschikov ◽  
Yuriy Sheynin ◽  
Boris Sedov ◽  
Vera Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Multicore Processors ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Portable Software ◽  
The Embedded System ◽  
Computing Platforms

Nowadays embedded systems are used in a broad range of domains such as avionics, space, automotive, mobile, domestic appliances etc. Sophisticated software determines the quality of embedded systems and requires high-qualified experts for software development. Software becomes the main assert of embedded systems that is valuable to retain in changing computing platforms in embedded systems evolution. Computing platforms for embedded systems became multicore processors and SoC, they can change in the embedded system lifetime that could be long (dozen of years for an automobile and airplane). It requires software porting to new platforms as a regular process. Many tools and approaches allow developing of software for domain area experts, but mainly for general-purpose computing systems. In this paper the authors present the complex technology and tools that allows involving domain experts in software development for embedded systems. The proposed technology has various aspects and abilities that can be used to build verifiable and portable software for a wide range of embedded platforms.

scholarly journals A Generalization Performance Study Using Deep Learning Networks in Embedded Systems

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1031
Author(s):  
Joseba Gorospe ◽  
Rubén Mulero ◽  
Olatz Arbelaitz ◽  
Javier Muguerza ◽  
Miguel Ángel Antón
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Learning Architectures

Deep learning techniques are being increasingly used in the scientific community as a consequence of the high computational capacity of current systems and the increase in the amount of data available as a result of the digitalisation of society in general and the industrial world in particular. In addition, the immersion of the field of edge computing, which focuses on integrating artificial intelligence as close as possible to the client, makes it possible to implement systems that act in real time without the need to transfer all of the data to centralised servers. The combination of these two concepts can lead to systems with the capacity to make correct decisions and act based on them immediately and in situ. Despite this, the low capacity of embedded systems greatly hinders this integration, so the possibility of being able to integrate them into a wide range of micro-controllers can be a great advantage. This paper contributes with the generation of an environment based on Mbed OS and TensorFlow Lite to be embedded in any general purpose embedded system, allowing the introduction of deep learning architectures. The experiments herein prove that the proposed system is competitive if compared to other commercial systems.

scholarly journals Timing Comparison of the Real-Time Operating Systems for Small Microcontrollers

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan Ungurean
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Time Requirements ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
The Embedded System ◽  
Embedded Operating Systems

In automatic systems used in the control and monitoring of industrial processes, fieldbuses with specific real-time requirements are used. Often, the sensors are connected to these fieldbuses through embedded systems, which also have real-time features specific to the industrial environment in which it operates. The embedded operating systems are very important in the design and development of embedded systems. A distinct class of these operating systems is real-time operating systems (RTOSs) that can be used to develop embedded systems, which have hard and/or soft real-time requirements on small microcontrollers (MCUs). RTOSs offer the basic support for developing embedded systems with applicability in a wide range of fields such as data acquisition, internet of things, data compression, pattern recognition, diversity, similarity, symmetry, and so on. The RTOSs provide basic services for multitasking applications with deterministic behavior on MCUs. The services provided by the RTOSs are task management and inter-task synchronization and communication. The selection of the RTOS is very important in the development of the embedded system with real-time requirements and it must be based on the latency in the handling of the critical operations triggered by internal or external events, predictability/determinism in the execution of the RTOS primitives, license costs, and memory footprint. In this paper, we measured and compared the timing performance for synchronization throughout an event, semaphore, and mailbox for the following RTOSs: FreeRTOS 9.0.0, FreeRTOS 10.2.0, rt-thread, Keil RTX, uC/OS-II, and uC/OS-III. For the experimental tests, we developed test applications for two MCUs: ARM Cortex™-M4 and ARM Cortex™-M0+ based MCUs.

scholarly journals INTEGRATED DOMAIN-SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR HETEROGENEOUS MANYCORE PLATFORMS

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Syschikov ◽  
B. N. Sedov ◽  
Yu. E. Sheynin
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Programming Environment ◽  
Domain Expert ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Portable Software ◽  
Complex Technology ◽  
Hardware Platforms

Different classes of problems on the embedded systems market and its needs make manufacturers of embedded systems to design heterogeneous many/multi core hardware platforms. Such platforms includes dozens of different cores: CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA etc. That makes them incredibly hard to program, especially in case when domain experts are involved in the development process. Usually, domain expert has knowledge in his domain area, but does not fully understand the specificity of programming for heterogeneous manycore platforms. In this article, we propose the complex technology and tools that allows involving domain experts in software development for embedded systems. The proposed technology has various aspects and abilities that can be used to build verifiable and portable software for a wide range of heterogeneous embedded platforms.

Compiler-Aided Run-Time Performance Speed-Up in Super-Scalar Processor

10.28945/3391 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moshe Pelleh
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Organic System ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Organic Systems ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Run Time

In our world, where most systems become embedded systems, the approach of designing embedded systems is still frequently similar to the approach of designing organic systems (or not embedded systems). An organic system, like a personal computer or a work station, must be able to run any task submitted to it at any time (with certain constrains depending on the machine). Consequently, it must have a sophisticated general purpose Operating System (OS) to schedule, dispatch, maintain and monitor the tasks and assist them in special cases (particularly communication and synchronization between them and with external devices). These OSs require an overhead on the memory, on the cache and on the run time. Moreover, generally they are task oriented rather than machine oriented; therefore the processor's throughput is penalized. On the other hand, an embedded system, like an Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), executes always the same software application. Frequently it is a small or medium size system, or made up of several such systems. Many small or medium size embedded systems, with limited number of tasks, can be scheduled by our proposed hardware architecture, based on the Motorola 500MHz MPC7410 processor, enhancing its throughput and avoiding the software OS overhead, complexity, maintenance and price. Encouraged by our experimental results, we shall develop a compiler to assist our method. In the meantime we will present here our proposal and the experimental results.

scholarly journals The Design of a 2D Graphics Accelerator for Embedded Systems

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 469
Author(s):  
Hyun Woo Oh ◽  
Ji Kwang Kim ◽  
Gwan Beom Hwang ◽  
Seung Eun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Line Drawing ◽  
Cmos Process ◽  
Embedded Processor ◽  
Processor Core ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
The Embedded System ◽  
Graphics Processing

Recently, advances in technology have enabled embedded systems to be adopted for a variety of applications. Some of these applications require real-time 2D graphics processing running on limited design specifications such as low power consumption and a small area. In order to satisfy such conditions, including a specific 2D graphics accelerator in the embedded system is an effective method. This method reduces the workload of the processor in the embedded system by exploiting the accelerator. The accelerator assists the system to perform 2D graphics processing in real-time. Therefore, a variety of applications that require 2D graphics processing can be implemented with an embedded processor. In this paper, we present a 2D graphics accelerator for tiny embedded systems. The accelerator includes an optimized line-drawing operation based on Bresenham’s algorithm. The optimized operation enables the accelerator to deal with various kinds of 2D graphics processing and to perform the line-drawing instead of the system processor. Moreover, the accelerator also distributes the workload of the processor core by removing the need for the core to access the frame buffer memory. We measure the performance of the accelerator by implementing the processor, including the accelerator, on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and ascertaining the possibility of realization by synthesizing using the 180 nm CMOS process.

UML as Front-End Language for Embedded Systems Design

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Lisane Brisolara de Brisolara ◽  
Marcio Eduardo Kreutz ◽  
Luigi Carro
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uml Diagrams ◽  
The Embedded System ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter covers the use of UML as a modeling language for embedded systems design. It introduces the UML language, presenting the history of its definition, its main diagrams and characteristics. Using a case study, we show that using the standard UML with its limitations one is not able to model many important characteristics of embedded systems. For that reason, UML provides extension mechanisms that enable one to extend the language for a given domain, through the definition of profiles covering domain-specific applications. Several profiles have been proposed for the embedded systems domain, and some of those that have been standardized by OMG are presented here. A case study is also used to present MARTE, a new profile specifically proposed for the embedded system domain, enabling designers to model aspects like performance and schedulability. This chapter also presents a discussion about the effort to generate code from UML diagrams and analyses the open issues to the successful use of UML in the whole embedded system design flow.

Analysis on the Application of the Embedded System to Software Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 443 ◽  
pp. 531-534
Author(s):  
Fang Xu ◽  
Xiao Xia Peng
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Embedded System

Along with the continuous development of computer technology, the embedded system, as one of the most important computer applications, has been more and more widely used in the world. In this paper, the embedded system is briefly introduced, and also the application of the embedded system to software development is analyzed and expounded.

scholarly journals Implementing Dynamically Evolvable Communication with Embedded Systems through WEB Services

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Sasi Bhanu Jammalamadaka ◽  
Vinaya Babu A ◽  
Trimurthy A
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Online Testing ◽  
Critical System ◽  
Level Of Details ◽  
Architectural Models ◽  
The Embedded System ◽  
And Control

<p>Embedded systems that monitor and control safety and mission critical system are communicated with by a HOST located at a remote location through Internet. Such kind of embedded systems are developed to be dynamically evolvable with respect to syntax, semantics, online testing and communication subsystems. All these systems are to be dynamically evolvable and the components needed for evolution are also to be added into the embedded system. Architectural  models describe  various components using which dynamically evolvable sub-systems are realised through implementation by using specific and related technologies. Implementation system describe the platform, code units and the interlacing of various processes/tasks to the elementary level of details. WEB services place an excellent platform for implementing dynamically evolvable  systems due to the use of open standards.</p><p> </p><p>This paper presents an implementation system that is related to dynamically evolvable communication and other sub-systems using web services technologies.</p>

scholarly journals Open-Source FPGA Coprocessor for the Doppler Emulation of Moving Fluids

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1549
Author(s):  
Stefano Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Field Programmable Gate Array ◽  
Synthetic Signal ◽  
Doppler System ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Moving Fluid

Embedded systems are nowadays employed in a wide range of application, and their capability to implement calculation-intensive algorithms is growing quickly and constantly. This result is obtained by the exploitation of powerful embedded processors that are often connected to coprocessors optimized for a particular application. This work presents an open-source coprocessor dedicated to the real-time generation of a synthetic signal that mimics the echoes produced by a moving fluid when investigated by ultrasounds. The coprocessor is implemented in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device and integrated in an embedded system. The system can replace the complex and inaccurate flow-rigs employed in laboratorial tests of Doppler ultrasound systems and methods. This paper details the coprocessor and its standard interfaces, and shows how it can be integrated in the wider architecture of an embedded system. Experiments showed its capability to emulate a fluid flowing in a pipe when investigated by an echographic Doppler system.

scholarly journals Analysis of Biomedical Applications in Embedded Systems Devices

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Yue Dong ◽  
Charlie Siu
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mobile Computers

Embedded systems are rapidly being used in clinical and biological applications, as well as commercial, telecommunications, government, and other business applications. Embedded system solutions are growing in popularity, not only with types of technologies, garments, industries, healthcare and military hardware, and mobile computers, but with software solutions like' electronic worlds' and 'mobile worlds,' deep learning, and internet of things, which allow for the creation of a wide range of application. With the growth of viral illnesses like the Covid-19 virus, tele-health technologies for diagnostics, prognostic, and patient treatment have become more important in recent decades. In medical technologies, embedded device techniques have taken a significant role. Developing techniques to improve the security of medical practitioners in the case of pandemic contagious diseases, such as epidemics, is particularly important. Patients released from clinics home-based or in treatment wards that are non-intensive during the quarantine period, or segregated in their residences, outpatients’ departments, and moderately ailing individuals are progressively being monitored remotely, instantaneously, safely, and rapidly for this reason. The applications biomedical applications in embedded systems will be discussed in this paper.

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