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The following list summarizes some of the current and historical uses of the software environment by companies, research laboratories, and universities, i.e., other than by the Ptolemy Group at U.C. Berkeley. Uses of Ptolemy in internal company projects are not reported here. We will be happy to mention any third-party uses of Ptolemy.
Current
Historical
Current
- Universidad de Vigo, Spain,
created BerbeX,
a COFDM-based digital TV transmission systems simulator, which
uses Ptolemy.
- BNeD,
Broadband Network Design,
in Berlin, Germany, has developed and sells a library
(BroadNeD) for the
simulation of optical telecommunication networks. The optical devices are
modeled from the systems point of view using advanced algorithmic modeling
and allow in their totality the simulation of next generation optical
networks with different network architectures. Ptolemy is used as the
simulation environment.
On February 29, 1998, BNeD and HP
announced a plan
to develop fiber optics software.
(Remote copy of the announcement -
Local copy)
-
Cadence has
developed a new architecture for "full-system, mixed-level, and
mixed-domain simulation" based on research from the Ptolemy Project.
They leveraged Ptolemy's "system-level design framework that allows
mixing of multiple models of computation". Cadence describes their
new CONVERGENCE Simulation Architecture in a
press release.
The computation model and scheduling algorithms in Cadence's Signal
Processing WorkSystem were heavily influenced by Ptolemy's Synchronous
Dataflow domain and its scheduling algorithms.
- Università degli Studi di Cassino has developed
a general distributed optimization package
called DistOpt
that uses
Ptolemy Classic
(PDF Slides from the 4/01 Ptolemy Miniconference) - Dresden University of Technology has developed
WiNeS -
Wireless Network System Simulator. The Ptolemy 0.7.1 Discrete
Event Contrib palette includes a Tk demonstration of a WiNeS
prototype.
Contact: voigtje at ifn et tu-dresden de
- HP EESof, a division of Hewlett Packard has
a version of
HP DSP Designer,
which is based on research from the Ptolemy Project.
The press release announcing the
product summarizes its capabilities.
-
Lyre
sells a Motororola 56x/Xilinx 4000 standalone box that
uses Ptolemy under Linux.
- Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company
is extending Ptolemy as part of a
Algorithm Analysis and Mapping DARPA research project.
- SSS,
Structured Software Systems,
is working on automated securities trading systems based on Ptolemy.
SSS uses a derivative of the DE domain for both historical testing and
live execution of trading systems. SSS has also made numerous small
improvements in the Ptolemy infrastructure, most of which have found
their way back to Berkeley for inclusion in future releases.
Contact: frank at strsoft com or
tgl at sss pgh pa us .
- Thompson,
CSF,
in Orsay, France, has developed their own Ptolemy domain and
performed a valuable evaluation of Ptolemy.
A summary their work
with Ptolemy is available.
- They have developed a multidimensional dataflow domain called
ArrayOL
which is based on the Ilog Views
C++ graphical user-interface library.
Contact: warzee at sctf thomson-csf fr
- They have performed an in-depth Evaluation of Ptolemy 0.4.1. Contact: warzee at sctf thomson-csf fr
- They have developed a multidimensional dataflow domain called
ArrayOL
which is based on the Ilog Views
C++ graphical user-interface library.
Contact: warzee at sctf thomson-csf fr
- The UC Berkeley CAD group is using
Ptolemy as a framework for the
POLIS system,
which is a hardware/software codesign package, with application to
automatic control.
Contact:
polis-questions at ic eecs berkeley edu
- University of Pittsburgh Optical Computing Group
and University of California at San Diego
OptoElectronic Computing Group
use Ptolemy in designing and simulating
Free Space Optoelectronic Information Processing Systems.
- Computer Aided Design and Simulation of Free Space Optoelectronic Information Processing Systems. Contact: Steven P. Levitan
- The University of Texas at Austin
uses Ptolemy in both research and education.
- Srikanth Gummadi
is using Ptolemy to develop, simulate, and synthesize real-time
constant modulus arrays for smart antennas.
The arrays can be modelled completely in the Synchronous Dataflow
model of computation.
Contact: Srikanth
Gummadi.
- Ashutosh Kulkarni is using Ptolemy in benchmarking code generation
methodologies.
Contact: Ashutosh Kulkarni
- Biao Lu
is using Ptolemy for modeling, simulating, and synthesizing
heterogeneous sytems composed of neural network and signal/image
processing subsystems by mixing dataflow models.
Most (artificial) neural network and signal/image processing
subsystems can be modeled using Synchronous Data.
Some neural networks, such as Cellular Neural Networks,
and some signal processing subsystems, such as timing recovery
in modems, require Boolean Dataflow.
Contact: Biao Lu.
- Prof. Brian Evans uses Ptolemy as a laboratory for students in Embedded Software Systems to explore computational models, synthesis of embedded software, and heterogeneous system simulation. Contact: Prof. Brian Evans.
- Srikanth Gummadi
is using Ptolemy to develop, simulate, and synthesize real-time
constant modulus arrays for smart antennas.
The arrays can be modelled completely in the Synchronous Dataflow
model of computation.
Contact: Srikanth
Gummadi.
- White Eagle Systems Technology, Inc., uses Ptolemy
in designing systems and developing CAD tools.
- Hardware/software codesign of signal processing systems for
speech, RADAR, networking and telecommunications.
They have developed their own Ptolemy code generation domains
for various DSP processors.
Contact: rjjt at WESTinc com
- Developed a dataflow CAD tool derived from research by the Ptolemy and Hyper projects at U.C. Berkeley. The tool assigned, scheduled, and generated code for the Mercury RACE architecture. The tool was used to develop radar and sonar applications on Mercury systems with over 128 Intel i860 processors. Contact: rjjt at WESTinc com
- Hardware/software codesign of signal processing systems for
speech, RADAR, networking and telecommunications.
They have developed their own Ptolemy code generation domains
for various DSP processors.
Contact: rjjt at WESTinc com
Historical
- BDTI,
Berkeley Design Technology, Inc.,
in Fremont, CA, developed a prototype of a layer on top of the
Ptolemy kernel called Ptolemy HSIM (Heterogeneous Simulation).
Ptolemy HSIM served as a simulation backplane that allows
Cadence's
Signal Processing WorkSystem (SPW), Cadence's Bones, and
Precedence's SimMatrix environments to cooperate during a simulation.
SimMatrix is a synchronization mechanism for connecting 30 different
VHDL and Verilog simulators together.
The Ptolemy HSIM prototype was developed by BDTI for Lockheed-Martin,
but there are no plans to release Ptolemy HSIM. For further information,
contact Bernie Schaming
at Lockheed-Martin.
- BU,
Boston University, in Boston, MA,
through its Knowledge-Based
Signal Processing Group, has developed an environment called
the Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals (IPUS)
that has been encapsulated into Ptolemy as a new domain.
Ptolemy serves as the organizing framework and provides
a computational engine through its other domains.
IPUS can apply a family of knowledge-based techniques for
iteratively refining a computation by dynamically selecting the
algorithms to be applied to the data on the basis of results
provided by previous algorithms.
Thus, IPUS is a reasoning framework for signal reprocessing,
incremental refinement, and signal understanding.
Contact: Prof. S. Hamid Nawab
- DQDT,
Dimensions in Quick Design Turnaround,
in Carlsbad, CA, has derived a new VHDL domain to serve as a front-end
specification and VHDL code generation environment for behavioral modeling
and synthesis of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits.
They applied the same approach using Mentor Graphics DSP Station as a
front end.
They have also customized the edit parameters dialogue to support
Tcl/Tk widgets.
For example, instead of typing in
YESorNOfor a boolean parameter, you could click on a yes or no button. They have also modified the schematic entry to support connections that are made by name (reference) instead of by creating a wire. Contact: cesear at dqdt com or powell at dqdt com . - FOKUS,
Research Institute for
Open Communication Systems, in Berlin, Germany,
has developed a TCP Simulator using Ptolemy.
Dorgham Sisalem's
Master's Thesis describes the work.
- Sanders,
Rapid-Prototyping Group,
in Nashua, NH, has developed three different extensions to Ptolemy,
as a prime contractor on the ARPA Rapid Prototyping of Application
Specific Signal Processors
(RASSP) Project.
- They have written their own graphical front-end to Ptolemy that
allows a user to sketch a target architecture and quickly map
the stars in an SDF graph to the processors in the architecture.
Extensions to the DE domain have been implemented to allow a
performance-level model of the architecture to be simulated.
They create a DE domain model representing the mapping of the
algorithm to the architecture and use the Ptolemy kernel to
simulate the performance. The product of the simulation is a
Gantt chart showing the execution of stars and memory usage over
time as well as estimates of certain other system level metrics
(weight, size, power, reliability, etc.). This capability has
been developed as a front-end architectural trade tool for the
Sanders RASSP Program.
Contact: epauer at sanders com
A demonstration is available as a patch to Ptolemy0.6. - They have developed their own custom code generation domain for
FPGAs that uses the DE domain to partition the graph onto
multiple FPGA and then automatically insert registers to
compensate for pipelining.
They apply perl scripts to the resulting ptcl code to generate
the FPGA layout in a Xlinx format.
Contact:
Cory Myers
- They have integrated Ptolemy into their RASSP Design Environment (RDE), a set of a fifteen CAD tools for hardware/software codesign and thirteen CAD tools for electrical and physical design for embedded signal processors. Reference: Rick Ong, Rob Costantino, and Rodger Philips, "ENvironment and Tools for an Intergrated RDE (ENTIRE)," Proc. ARPA Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors Conference, pp. 115-121, Arlington, VA, July, 1995. Contact: rcostantino at sanders com
- They have written their own graphical front-end to Ptolemy that
allows a user to sketch a target architecture and quickly map
the stars in an SDF graph to the processors in the architecture.
Extensions to the DE domain have been implemented to allow a
performance-level model of the architecture to be simulated.
They create a DE domain model representing the mapping of the
algorithm to the architecture and use the Ptolemy kernel to
simulate the performance. The product of the simulation is a
Gantt chart showing the execution of stars and memory usage over
time as well as estimates of certain other system level metrics
(weight, size, power, reliability, etc.). This capability has
been developed as a front-end architectural trade tool for the
Sanders RASSP Program.
Contact: epauer at sanders com
-
University of
California at Berkeley,
Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences,
has used Ptolemy in both research and education.
- The Infopad Project
used Ptolemy as a design, simulation, and test generation tool .
The Infopad Project is an indoor wireless communications network
consisting of a computer network backbone connecting rooms together,
with optical transmitters and hand-held computer-receivers in each
room.
Simulation of communications protocols between the hand-held
terminals and the rest of the Infopad system have been performed
in Communicating Processes domain, which is not included in
the Ptolemy 0.6 release.
Infopad designers also made use of the Synchronous Dataflow (SDF)
model of computation to generate standalone demonstrations using
the compile-SDF target and the Code Generation in C domain.
The primary use of Ptolemy was in designing the hand-held computers,
e.g. simulating their behavior, determining bit widths of the
internal data paths, and test vector generation.
Contact:
ssheng at zabriskie eecs berkeley edu
- Javier Contreras in Prof. Felix Wu's group is using Ptolemy
as a framework for studying power systems transmission planning.
Using Ptolemy, he is studying tradeoffs in using different
optimization techniques provided by library routines and
commercial software such as MATLAB.
The optimization procedures are chosen graphically using
hierarchical block diagrams and interactive Tcl/Tk interfaces.
Contact: Javier
Contreras
- Alberto Ferrari in the CAD
group is interfacing MatrixX to Ptolemy to leverage their
previous implementations of automatic control strategies in MatrixX.
Contact: Alberto
Ferrari
- Students in the undergraduate and graduate signal processing courses
use Ptolemy as an
exploratory laboratory.
Contact: Prof. Edward A.
Lee
- Ptolemy was the platform to show real-time signal processing demonstrations in a sophomore class entitled Introduction to Real-Time Digital Systems. Contact: Prof. Edward A. Lee
- The Infopad Project
used Ptolemy as a design, simulation, and test generation tool .
The Infopad Project is an indoor wireless communications network
consisting of a computer network backbone connecting rooms together,
with optical transmitters and hand-held computer-receivers in each
room.
Simulation of communications protocols between the hand-held
terminals and the rest of the Infopad system have been performed
in Communicating Processes domain, which is not included in
the Ptolemy 0.6 release.
Infopad designers also made use of the Synchronous Dataflow (SDF)
model of computation to generate standalone demonstrations using
the compile-SDF target and the Code Generation in C domain.
The primary use of Ptolemy was in designing the hand-held computers,
e.g. simulating their behavior, determining bit widths of the
internal data paths, and test vector generation.
Contact:
ssheng at zabriskie eecs berkeley edu
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