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HW/SW co-simulation within the MODUS toolset
MODUS Project FP7- 286583
Methodology and Supporting Toolset Advancing Embedded Systems Quality
Eclipse Conference
Toulouse, May 6th 2013
MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6th 2013
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M3Systems: Leading SME in radionavigation
An independant SME founded in 1999, performing research and
engineering in radio navigation and applications
Activities include but not restrained to:
Radio navigation technical studies
Airport applications
Critical transportations
…
Implied in several national and
European projects.
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Summary
MODUS project and toolset
Principle and objectives
HW/SW co-simulation workflow
HW/SW co-simulation environment
HW/SW co-simulation demonstration
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Summary
MODUS project and toolset
Principle and objectives
HW/SW co-simulation workflow
HW/SW co-simulation environment
HW/SW co-simulation demonstration
MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6th 2013
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MODUS project and toolset
MODUS aims to help SMEs to substantially improve their positioning in
the embedded-systems development market
MODUS is a set of open and customizable methodologies including:
 Model verification by guiding the selection of existing open-source model
verification engines
 Interfacing with standard simulation platforms for HW/SW co-simulation
 Software performance-tuning optimization through automated design
transformations
 Customizable source-code generation towards respecting coding standards and
conventions
MODUS does not aim to be competitive with the vendors of CASE tools
that are presently used in embedded software engineering, but to bring the
technology to SMEs.
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Summary
MODUS project and toolset
Principle and objectives
HW/SW co-simulation workflow
HW/SW co-simulation environment
HW/SW co-simulation demonstration
MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6th 2013
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Principle and objectives
Embedded systems design complexity is growing exponentially with
more integrated applications and feature
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Principle and objectives
Y-Chart approach
Clear separation
between architecture
and application
Architecture
Application
Mapping
Changes in
architecture
System
Changes in
application
Analysis
Iterative
Rely on an efficient and fast way to perform the steps of the iteration
The actual implementation of the approach usually relies on design, simulation, and
analysis, of software models of the system i.e. Virtual Platforms
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Principle and objectives
MODUS approach
Architecture
Application
High level modelling
of architecture
Model of the
architecture
Model of the
application
Generation of Virtual
Platform
Virtual
Platform
Software
binary
Mapping
Changes in
architecture
“Executable”
System
Changes in
application
Cosimulation
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Summary
MODUS project and toolset
Principle and objectives
HW/SW co-simulation workflow
HW/SW co-simulation environment
HW/SW co-simulation demonstration
MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6th 2013
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HW/SW co-simulation workflow
MODUS full HW/SW co-simulation workflow:
Embedded
system
 Define the hardware architecture
 Model the architecture using UML
 Generate the SystemC virtual platform
 Complete and configure the virtual platform
 Generate the executable virtual platform
 Integrate the SW Binaries in the platform
 Co-simulate the executable system
 Change the architecture if needed
 Re-iterate
Changes in
architecture
Embedded
system
HW
Embedded
system
SW
Architecture
modelling
Model of the
architecture
Virtual Platform
generation
Generated
Virtual
Platform
MODUS
software
design flow
Virtual Platform completion
and configuration
Changes in
application
Virtual
Platform
Virtual Platform
compilation
Executable
Virtual
Platform
SW
Binary
Mapping
“Executable”
System
Cosimulation
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HW/SW co-simulation workflow
Architecture modelling using UML Marte
Structure composite diagram with restrictions on constructs
A system is modelled as a set of components interconnected through ports to a bus.
Class stereotyped with a subset of MARTE HwLogical stereotypes and some of
their properties
HwProcessor , HwBus (latency), HwRAM (latency, size), HwIO, HwDevice, HwEndPoint
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HW/SW co-simulation workflow
Virtual Platform generation
SystemC : C++ library for systems modelling, which includes a simulation kernel.
Modules, ports, channels, processes, events, specific datatypes…
Interface
Module
Module
Process
Channel
Port
Process
Port
TLM2.0 : Extension to SystemC with the purpose to abstract communications with
high level transactions. Suited for the modelling of memory-mapped bus systems.
Generic payload, sockets… supporting two coding styles : Loosely Timed and
Approximately Timed.
Target
socket
Initiator
Interconnect
Initiator
socket
Socket binding
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Initiator
socket
Target
Target
socket
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HW/SW co-simulation workflow
Virtual Platform generation
simple_target_socket
Processor
Memory
simple_initiator_socket
Bus
Probes
I/O Device
Generation of a Loosely-Timed virtual platform
Modules are generated as skeletons to be completed by MODUS users (except Bus and
Memories (SRAM), as well as a set of probes).
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Summary
MODUS project and toolset
Principle and objectives
HW/SW co-simulation workflow
HW/SW co-simulation environment
HW/SW co-simulation demonstration
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HW/SW co-simulation environment
HW/SW co-simulation environment
Graphical UML
modeller
MDT Papyrus
Generation
engine
Acceleo
UML MARTE
model
Generated
SystemC virtual
Eclipse plug-ins platform
Compilation with
external tools:
Eclipse CDT
Visual Studio
…
Completion and
configuration
Eclipse
Configured
SystemC virtual
platform
Built over the Eclipse framework as a set of specific plug-ins
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Summary
MODUS project and toolset
Principle and objectives
HW/SW co-simulation workflow
HW/SW co-simulation environment
HW/SW co-simulation demonstration
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Virtual platform demonstration
 Completely generated modules
 Memory
 PLBBus
“Data Transfer”
Software
GNSS data
Acquisition
GNSS data
positioning
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 Generated modules, but completed
and configured by the user
MicroBlaze
UART
Acquisition and tracking
Positining
 “Data transfer” software compiled
using Xilinx tools and loaded into the
virtual platform memory
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Than you for your attention!
Yann Leclerc
R&D Engineer – M3 Systems
Tel: +33 5 62 23 10 84
Fax: +33 5 62 23 10 81
email: [email protected]
MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6th 2013
Chafic Jaber, PhD
Research Engineer – M3 Systems
Tel: +33 5 62 23 10
Fax: +33 5 62 23 10 81
email: [email protected]
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