1. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 1 MODUS Project FP7- 286583 Methodology and Supporting Toolset Advancing Embedded Systems Quality Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 HW/SW co-simulation within the MODUS toolset

2. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 2 An independant SME founded in 1999, performing research and engineering in radio navigation and applications Activities include but not restrained to:  Radio navigation technical studies  Airport applications  Critical transportations  … Implied in several national and European projects. M3Systems: Leading SME in radionavigation

3. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 3 Summary MODUS project and toolset Principle and objectives HW/SW co-simulation workflow HW/SW co-simulation environment HW/SW co-simulation demonstration

4. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 4 Summary MODUS project and toolset Principle and objectives HW/SW co-simulation workflow HW/SW co-simulation environment HW/SW co-simulation demonstration

5. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 5 MODUS project and toolset MODUS aims to help SMEs to substantially improve their positioning in the embedded-systems development market MODUS is a set of open and customizable methodologies including:  Model verification by guiding the selection of existing open-source model verification engines  Interfacing with standard simulation platforms for HW/SW co-simulation  Software performance-tuning optimization through automated design transformations  Customizable source-code generation towards respecting coding standards and conventions MODUS does not aim to be competitive with the vendors of CASE tools that are presently used in embedded software engineering, but to bring the technology to SMEs.

6. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 6 Summary MODUS project and toolset Principle and objectives HW/SW co-simulation workflow HW/SW co-simulation environment HW/SW co-simulation demonstration  Rely on an efficient and fast way to perform the steps of the iteration  The actual implementation of the methodology usually relies on design, simulation, and analysis, of software models of systems i.e. Virtual Platforms

7. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 7 Principle and objectives Embedded systems design complexity is growing exponentially with more integrated applications and feature

8. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 8 Principle and objectives Y-Chart approach  Rely on an efficient and fast way to perform the steps of the iteration  The actual implementation of the approach usually relies on design, simulation, and analysis, of software models of the system i.e. Virtual Platforms ArchitectureApplication System Analysis Changes in architecture Changes in application Mapping Clear separation between architecture and application Iterative

9. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 9 MODUS approach Principle and objectives “Executable” System Co- simulation Changes in architecture Changes in application Mapping ArchitectureApplication Model of the architecture Model of the application Virtual Platform Software binary High level modelling of architecture Generation of Virtual Platform

10. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 10 Summary MODUS project and toolset Principle and objectives HW/SW co-simulation workflow HW/SW co-simulation environment HW/SW co-simulation demonstration  Rely on an efficient and fast way to perform the steps of the iteration  The actual implementation of the methodology usually relies on design, simulation, and analysis, of software models of systems i.e. Virtual Platforms

11. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 11 MODUS full HW/SW co-simulation workflow:  Define the hardware architecture  Model the architecture using UML  Generate the SystemC virtual platform  Complete and configure the virtual platform  Generate the executable virtual platform  Integrate the SW Binaries in the platform  Co-simulate the executable system  Change the architecture if needed  Re-iterate HW/SW co-simulation workflow Generated Virtual Platform SW Binary “Executable” System Co- simulation Model of the architecture Virtual Platform Executable Virtual Platform Embedded system HW Embedded system SW Changes in architecture Changes in application Architecture modelling Virtual Platform generation Virtual Platform completion and configuration Virtual Platform compilation Mapping MODUS software design flow

12. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 12 HW/SW co-simulation workflow Architecture modelling using UML Marte  Structure composite diagram with restrictions on constructs  A system is modelled as a set of components interconnected through ports to a bus.  Class stereotyped with a subset of MARTE HwLogical stereotypes and some of their properties  HwProcessor, HwBus (latency), HwRAM (latency, size), HwIO, HwDevice, HwEndPoint

13. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 13 HW/SW co-simulation workflow Virtual Platform generation  SystemC : C++ library for systems modelling, which includes a simulation kernel.  Modules, ports, channels, processes, events, specific datatypes…  TLM2.0 : Extension to SystemC with the purpose to abstract communications with high level transactions. Suited for the modelling of memory-mapped bus systems.  Generic payload, sockets… supporting two coding styles : Loosely Timed and Approximately Timed.

14. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 14 HW/SW co-simulation workflow Virtual Platform generation  Generation of a Loosely-Timed virtual platform  Modules are generated as skeletons to be completed by MODUS users (except Bus and Memories (SRAM), as well as a set of probes).

15. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 15 Summary MODUS project and toolset Principle and objectives HW/SW co-simulation workflow HW/SW co-simulation environment HW/SW co-simulation demonstration  Rely on an efficient and fast way to perform the steps of the iteration  The actual implementation of the methodology usually relies on design, simulation, and analysis, of software models of systems i.e. Virtual Platforms

16. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 16 HW/SW co-simulation environment  Built over the Eclipse framework as a set of specific plug-ins Eclipse plug-ins HW/SW co-simulation environment Generation engine Acceleo Completion and configuration Eclipse Graphical UML modeller MDT Papyrus UML MARTE model Generated SystemC virtual platform Configured SystemC virtual platform Compilation with external tools: Eclipse CDT Visual Studio …

17. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 17 Summary MODUS project and toolset Principle and objectives HW/SW co-simulation workflow HW/SW co-simulation environment HW/SW co-simulation demonstration  Rely on an efficient and fast way to perform the steps of the iteration  The actual implementation of the methodology usually relies on design, simulation, and analysis, of software models of systems i.e. Virtual Platforms

18. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 18 Virtual platform demonstration Completely generated modules  Memory  PLBBus Generated modules, but completed and configured by the user  MicroBlaze  UART  Acquisition and tracking  Positining  “Data transfer” software compiled using Xilinx tools and loaded into the virtual platform memory “Data Transfer” Software GNSS data Acquisition GNSS data positioning

19. MODUS Project FP7- SME – 2011- 286583, Eclipse Conference Toulouse, May 6 th 2013 Page 19 Than you for your attention! Yann Leclerc R&D Engineer – M3 Systems Tel: +33 5 62 23 10 84 Fax: +33 5 62 23 10 81 email: leclerc@m3systems.net Chafic Jaber, PhD Research Engineer – M3 Systems Tel: +33 5 62 23 10 Fax: +33 5 62 23 10 81 email: jaber@m3systems.net