Study on Abstraction Modeling of a Networked Senor System in a Multiple-Language Environment

Developing highly efficient and reliable embedded system demands hardware/software co-design. To be high-configurable embedded systems, designers seek for transaction-level modeling and component based development. Our approach employ platform-based design and component-based design and apply it to a networked sensor system. We introduce a multiple-language environment unified component-based model and apply it to co-simulation of sensor system instances. The case studies demonstrate that our approach is readily applicable to real-world networked sensor systems and reduces the co-simulation complexities.

Application Specific Architecture Template Reuse for SoC Transaction Level Modeling

In the field of SoC hardware/software co-design, transaction level modeling is the bridge of SoC system level modeling and RTL level modeling. This paper considers a novel application specific template reuse approach for SoC transaction level modeling. Application specific architecture templates are built by integrating computation, communication and scheduling IP modules. These templates can support SoC modeling, mapping and simulation simultaneously. Experiments results from JPEG encoder applications in TL_Platform Creator show the approach can improve the quality and efficiency of SoC design greatly.