Aspect-Oriented Design Automation with Model Transformation

Zhao Han; Deyan Wang; Gabriel Rutsch; Bowen Li; Sebastian Siegfried Prebeck; Daniela Sanchez Lopera; Keerthikumara Devarajegowda; Wolfgang Ecker

doi:10.1109/VLSI-SoC53125.2021.9606984

Aspect-Oriented Design Automation with Model Transformation

Zhao Han, Deyan Wang, Gabriel Rutsch, Bowen Li, Sebastian Siegfried Prebeck, Daniela Sanchez Lopera, Keerthikumara Devarajegowda, Wolfgang Ecker

Infineon Technologies AG

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Abstract

Despite the high configurability of IPs and hardware generators, code modifications are still required to introduce aspect-oriented instrumentation to satisfy emerging design requirements such as on-chip debug and functional safety. These code modifications lead to escalated development, verification efforts and deteriorate the code reuse. This paper proposes a highly efficient aspect-oriented design automation approach that leverages graph-grammar-based model transformations. With the proposed approach, main design functionalities and aspect-oriented instrumentation are separately developed, automatically integrated and verified. To demonstrate the applicability, industrial SoCs were transformed to support on-chip debug. Experimental results confirm the efficiency of the approach. Further, reduced code is needed with the proposed automation approach, which also replaces the error-prone manual RTL coding. Finally, the transformation scripts are applicable to different SoCs, which promotes the overall code reuse.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2021
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665426145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC53125.2021.9606984
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	29th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2021 - Virtual, Online, Singapore Duration: 4 Oct 2021 → 8 Oct 2021

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Name	IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC
Volume	2021-October
ISSN (Print)	2324-8432
ISSN (Electronic)	2324-8440

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Conference	29th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2021
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Virtual, Online
Period	4/10/21 → 8/10/21

Keywords

Aspect-Oriented Programming
Electronic Design Automation
Model-Driven Architecture

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Han, Z., Wang, D., Rutsch, G., Li, B., Prebeck, S. S., Lopera, D. S., Devarajegowda, K., & Ecker, W. (2021). Aspect-Oriented Design Automation with Model Transformation. In Proceedings of the 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2021 (IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC; Vol. 2021-October). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC53125.2021.9606984

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Han, Z, Wang, D, Rutsch, G, Li, B, Prebeck, SS, Lopera, DS, Devarajegowda, K & Ecker, W 2021, Aspect-Oriented Design Automation with Model Transformation. in Proceedings of the 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2021. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC, vol. 2021-October, IEEE Computer Society, 29th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2021, Virtual, Online, Singapore, 4/10/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC53125.2021.9606984

Aspect-Oriented Design Automation with Model Transformation. / Han, Zhao; Wang, Deyan; Rutsch, Gabriel et al.
Proceedings of the 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2021. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. (IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC; Vol. 2021-October).

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