IP reuse in an MDA MPSoPC co-design approach

With the increasing hardware capacity, embedded systems are becoming more and more complex, requiring new design techniques/methods. UML allows higher abstraction level system modeling and MDA techniques allow automatic code generation. In this paper we propose a UML/MDA approach to rapidly model and automatically generate MPSoPC systems. Our approach uses MARTE as extension mechanism in order to allow real-time and platform embedded systems modeling. Our goal is to provide an unique model for MPSoPC co-design, closing the gap between hardware and software modeling. Also, we propose an efficient method for IP (Intellectual Property) reuse allowing automatically platform code generation. Our tests have shown gains in the order of 30% in design time.

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