Control Performance-Aware System Level Design

Control applications are more and more an integral part of modern embedded systems. As a result, considering the quality of control applications as a design objective while respecting design constraints like stability becomes mandatory. The work at hand proposes a fullyautomatic toolflow at the Electronic System Level (ESL) that enables the optimization of a system implementation with quality of control being introduced as a principal design objective. The existing gap between mathematically well-defined models used for system synthesis and exploration on the one side, and common techniques for the analysis of control quality on the other, is bridged by employing a virtual prototype of the system implementation. A case-study gives evidence of the applicability and efficiency of the proposed methodology.

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