Citation
Kaushik Ravindran, Hugo Andrade, Sadia Malik, Michael Rauser, Guoqiang Gerald Wang, Guang Yang. "Taking LabVIEW further into the System Level Design Domain". Talk or presentation, 16, April, 2009; Presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference.

Abstract
The LabVIEW(TM) graphical programming language from National Instruments Corporation has been successfully used over the past 20 years to design and deploy test and measurement applications. More recently, the availability of associated modules such as LabVIEW Real-Time, LabVIEW FPGA, LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation, and LabVIEW Statechart has positioned LabVIEW as a viable development tool for real-time control and embedded applications. The typical deployment targets for these applications are heterogeneous platforms consisting of multiple host supervisory computers, real-time instruction-set processors, hard real-time FPGA based processing elements, and distributed I/O nodes. Future platforms are expected to contain hundreds of processing elements to meet the high performance requirements of modern embedded applications. However, LabVIEW in its current form may not be sufficiently equipped to scale with the increasing complexity of these applications and platforms.

System Diagram is an experimental design framework, still under research at National Instruments, intended to complement LabVIEW and ease the development of such complex systems. System Diagram proposes to advance LabVIEW along three key directions: (a) support for multi-rate data flow and streaming models of computation that accurately represent concurrency and timing; (b) tools for design and customization of distributed heterogeneous multi-target platforms; (c) disciplined mapping and exploration methodology to improve the productivity, efficiency, and correctness of LabVIEW based system design solutions. In this talk, we discuss the motivation and concepts underlying System Diagram, demonstrate preliminary capabilities of this framework, and discuss open challenges of interest to the Ptolemy community.

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  Kaushik Ravindran, Hugo Andrade, Sadia Malik, Michael
  Rauser, Guoqiang Gerald Wang, Guang Yang. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/561.html"
  ><i>Taking LabVIEW further into the System Level
  Design Domain</i></a>, Talk or presentation, 
  16, April, 2009; Presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy
  Miniconference.

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  Kaushik Ravindran, Hugo Andrade, Sadia Malik, Michael
  Rauser, Guoqiang Gerald Wang, Guang Yang. "Taking
  LabVIEW further into the System Level Design Domain".
  Talk or presentation,  16, April, 2009; Presented at the 8th
  Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{RavindranAndradeMalikRauserWangYang09_TakingLabVIEWFurtherIntoSystemLevelDesignDomain,
      author = {Kaushik Ravindran and Hugo Andrade and Sadia Malik
                and Michael Rauser and Guoqiang Gerald Wang and
                Guang Yang},
      title = {Taking LabVIEW further into the System Level
                Design Domain},
      day = {16},
      month = {April},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy
                Miniconference},
      abstract = {The LabVIEW(TM) graphical programming language
                from National Instruments Corporation has been
                successfully used over the past 20 years to design
                and deploy test and measurement applications. More
                recently, the availability of associated modules
                such as LabVIEW Real-Time, LabVIEW FPGA, LabVIEW
                Control Design and Simulation, and LabVIEW
                Statechart has positioned LabVIEW as a viable
                development tool for real-time control and
                embedded applications. The typical deployment
                targets for these applications are heterogeneous
                platforms consisting of multiple host supervisory
                computers, real-time instruction-set processors,
                hard real-time FPGA based processing elements, and
                distributed I/O nodes. Future platforms are
                expected to contain hundreds of processing
                elements to meet the high performance requirements
                of modern embedded applications. However, LabVIEW
                in its current form may not be sufficiently
                equipped to scale with the increasing complexity
                of these applications and platforms. <p>System
                Diagram is an experimental design framework, still
                under research at National Instruments, intended
                to complement LabVIEW and ease the development of
                such complex systems. System Diagram proposes to
                advance LabVIEW along three key directions: (a)
                support for multi-rate data flow and streaming
                models of computation that accurately represent
                concurrency and timing; (b) tools for design and
                customization of distributed heterogeneous
                multi-target platforms; (c) disciplined mapping
                and exploration methodology to improve the
                productivity, efficiency, and correctness of
                LabVIEW based system design solutions. In this
                talk, we discuss the motivation and concepts
                underlying System Diagram, demonstrate preliminary
                capabilities of this framework, and discuss open
                challenges of interest to the Ptolemy community. },
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/561.html}
  }
  

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