An Object Oriented Codesign Flow for low-cost HW/SW/mixed-signal systems based on UML

Author

Reyneri, Leonardo M.

Author_Institution

Dip. Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Turin

fYear

2006

fDate

16-19 May 2006

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

84

Abstract

This paper presents a high-level approach to hybrid (HW/SW/analog) codesign, which is centered around the use of UML as an object-oriented specification and description language. The proposed design flow is mostly aimed at very low cost systems (like consumer and automotive), which traditional codesign flows and tools are not suited to. The paper also shows how UML blocks can automatically be mapped to ANSI-C, VHDL and analog circuits and cosimulated by means of the CodeSimulink codesign environment

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; analogue circuits; circuit simulation; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; object-oriented languages; ANSI-C; CodeSimulink codesign; HW-SW mixed-signal systems; UML; VHDL; analog circuits; description language; hybrid codesign; object oriented codesign flow; object-oriented specification; Analog circuits; Automotive engineering; Costs; Documentation; Embedded system; Java; Microcontrollers; Pins; Read only memory; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2006. MELECON 2006. IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Malaga

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2006.1653041

Filename

1653041