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| Authors: | James Lapalme, Bart Theelen, Nikolay Stoimenov, Jeroen Voeten, Lothar Thiele, El Mostapha Aboulhamid |
| Group: | Computer Engineering |
| Type: | Incollection |
| Title: | Y-chart based system design: a discussion on approaches |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Pub-Key: | LTSVTA09 |
| Book Titel: | Nouvelles approches pour la conception d'outils CAO pour le domaine des systems embarqu'es |
| Keywords: | MPA, MOC, ESD |
| Publisher: | Universite de Montreal |
| Abstract: | Embedded systems are a source of technology that facilitates our modern lifestyle. To enable doing so, embedded systems become more complex and tend to integrate with our social well-being. To meet the consumer's expectations on technological improvements, time-to-market objectives for introducing innovative embedded systems are shorter than ever. Over the last decade, model-based design has been a subject of great interest as a means to accelerate the design of embedded systems. The Y-chart paradigm is a principal approach to model-based embedded system design. Despite the simplicity and conciseness of this paradigm, it has been incorporated in several ways into design methodologies that target different application domains. The variety in adopting the Y-chart paradigm is due to the particular emphasis a methodology puts on the different steps of the paradigm (application modelling, platform modelling, mapping, analysis and synthesis) and its focus on a particular application domain. This article explores this variety by examining and comparing three Y-chart based design methodologies: Metropolis, the Distributed Operation Layer incorporating Modular Performance Analysis and the Y-chart variant of the Software/Hardware Engineering methodology. This article (i) presents the concepts underlying the Y-chart paradigm covering also models of computation and models of architecture, (ii) discusses the three mentioned design methodologies, and (iii) compares these methodologies to highlight important differences in adopting the Y-chart paradigm. The examination and comparison shows that the Y-chart paradigm is a very flexible framework that can be applied for different application domains. |
| Remarks: | PhD Thesis of James Lapalme at the Universite de Montreal Canada |
| Resources: | [BibTeX] [Paper as PDF] |
