A Model Driven Engineering Design Flow to Generate VHDL

TheModEasy project seeks to develop techniques and software tools to aid in the development of reliable microprocessor based electronic (embedded) systems using advanced development and verification systems. The tools are evaluated in domains such as the automotive sector for reactive cruise control and anti-collision radar. While current developments of such complex systems are performed by hand writing of VHDL code, we automatically generate this code from high level abstraction modeling in UML. This paper presents our tool chain that targets intensive signal processing applications.