MDA for SoC Design, Intensive Signal Processing Experiment

Abstract

The development of embedded applications is very difficult. Several different languages are usually used to specify different parts of the application or of the hardware. Dealing with so many languages can be daunting. A separation of the preoccupations: application, hardware architecture, association between them and the simulation or execution technologies are keys to efficient co-design of embedded applications. The Model Driven Architecture can be used to better deal with the reuse of parts of the design and the interoperability between both the implementation technologies and the various simulation levels. We propose a construction of metamodels to support a co-design methodology. This construction will be experimented on intensive signal processing application co-design to justify the adequacy of this methodology to usual industrial development techniques. 1