System Level Design with UML: a Unified Approach

Author

Rouxel, S. ; Gogniat, G. ; Diguet, J.-P. ; Philippe, J.-L. ; Moy, C.

Author_Institution

Univ. Res. Lab.

fYear

2006

fDate

18-20 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper describes a fast prototyping tool targeting software radio applications. It is based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and combines a Software Defined Radio UML profile for implementing a real MDA approach with EDA tools for multi-level verifications from the type compatibility to the scheduling and memory use analysis over an heterogeneous platform. Our approach relies on performance analysis to improve architecture and application matching thanks to non-functional criteria. The main contributions of our work are the improvement of the original meta-model of the Software Radio UML profile which is currently under standardization and its integration within a unified design framework. From a high abstraction level of a software application we perform extensive verifications and analysis to validate the designer hardware architecture choice and the corresponding implementations.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; hardware-software codesign; software prototyping; software radio; system-on-chip; EDA tools; UML; Unified Modeling Language; hardware architecture; memory use analysis; performance analysis; prototyping tool; real MDA approach; scheduling; software radio applications; system level design; unified design framework; Application software; Computer architecture; Electronic design automation and methodology; Performance analysis; Software performance; Software prototyping; Software radio; Standardization; System-level design; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Embedded Systems, 2006. IES '06. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Antibes Juan-Les-Pins

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0777-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0777-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IES.2006.357482

Filename

4197505