Simulink and Virtual Hardware Platform Co-Simulation for Accurate Timing Analysis of Embedded Control Software
Fakih, Maher A. and Poppen, Frank and Grüttner, Kim, Rettberg, Achim
ASIM-Konferenz STS/GMMS 2011
The design of embedded systems that perform timing critical control algorithms is a challenging task. The goal of this paper is the defi nition of a design methodology and the implementation of its associated design flow that allows the validationof timing requirements of a control system. The design entry is a functional model of a control system specified in Matlab/Simulink. By modeling the environment (or the process to be controlled) a functional veri fication of the control system can bemade. In a next step C code is automatically generated from the controller model and cross-compiled to be executed on a virtual hardware platform implemented with the SystemC-based SoCLib framework. In SoCLib a measurement-based timing validation method was implemented to measure the execution of the generated code at a cycle accurate level. For enabling this methodology a co-simulation betweenSoCLib and Simulink was implemented allowing a virtual-platform-in-the-loop verifi cation. Our approach benefi ts from flexible hardware model introspections and visualization techniques compared to traditional hardware-in-the-loop techniques. The approached design flow shows great flexibility in terms of validating the functionality and performance of different models with di fferent complexities on di fferentvirtual platforms, and thus allows the forecast of design decision e ffects at minimal costs and short development times in early phases. Furthermore, the design flow contributes to the validation of timing requirements of critical control algorithms through measuring cycle accurate execution times. We will demonstrate the benefi ts of the proposed approach using an ignition controller application mapped on avirtual hardware platform.
02 / 2011
978-3-8322-9872-2
inproceedings
Shaker Verlag
ASIM/GI-Fachgruppe
17-26
COMPLEX
COdesign and power Management in PLatform-based design space EXploration
COdesign and power Management in PLatform-based design space EXploration
Andreas Brenke
OFFIS Autoren
