Scalability of TTool's AMS extensions: a case study

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the scalability of TTool's extensions for designing cyber-physical systems on MPSoCs, demonstrating its effectiveness through an automotive case study with cycle-accurate simulation capabilities.

Contribution

It introduces a scalable extension to TTool for high-level CPS design and simulation on MPSoCs, validated by a detailed automotive case study.

Findings

TTool extensions scale effectively for complex CPS designs.

Cycle-accurate simulation is feasible for large MPSoC-based systems.

The approach supports high-level design and detailed analysis.

Abstract

Embedded cyber-physical systems (CPS) are commonly built upon heterogeneous digital and analog integrated circuits, including sensors and actuators. Less common is their deployment on parallel, NoC based designs based on general purpose processor cores of a Multi-processor System-on-chip (MPSoC). Application code has to be run on the MPSoC for the digital part, and interact with the analog sensors. We recently proposed a major extension to the design and exploration tool named TTool, now allowing the design of CPS on a high level of abstraction and the generation of cycle-bit accurate simulations. We explore the scalability of our approach with an automotive case study.