MoPCoM/MARTE process applied to a cognitive radio system design and analysis

Abstract

Today, developments of real time embedded systems have to face new challenges. On the one hand, economic laws, such as Time-to-market, require a reliable development process allowing quick design space exploration. On the other hand, fast increasing technology, as stated by the Moore's law, requires techniques to handle the resulting productivity gap. Model Driven Development has been widely used in response to those issues. Benefits of such approach are numerous and have been demonstrated through several experiments. We present in this paper the Model Driven Development MoPCoM methodology, dedicated to SoC / SoPC design and analysis, and based on the use of the MARTE profile. This approach refines the MDA Y-Chart in order to ease design space exploration and IP integration. We illustrate our approach on Cognitive Radio System development implemented on an FPGA. This work is part of the MoPCoM research project (http://www.mopcom.fr) gathering academic and industrial organizations. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.