Citation
Hokeun Kim, Liangpeng Guo, Edward A. Lee, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "A Tool Integration Approach for Architectural Exploration of Aircraft Electric Power Systems". IEEE Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications, IEEE, 38-43, 2013.

Abstract
For emerging safety-critical systems, it is beneficial to cope with design validation, performance estimation, and design space exploration in early design stages. In this paper, we explore the architectural choices of an aircraft electric power system (EPS) controller using Ptolemy II and Metro II. The design is modeled in separate aspects: the functional aspect models the logics and behaviors that fulfill the functionality of the controller, and the architectural aspect models the behaviors of the platform that implements the controller. The co-design benefits from the rigorous Model of Computation (MoC) in Ptolemy II, which facilitates the analysis and validation of functional aspect, as well as the flexibility and expressiveness provided by Metro II, in which complex architectural models can be built with the flexibility of changing the mapping. Co-simulation integrates the functional model and the architectural model using Metro II semantics. By clearly separating the functional aspect and the architectural aspect, the performance can be estimated at an early design stage, and the architectural exploration can be done in a more efficient manner.We show the effectiveness and extensibility of our approach using experiments and results with example candidates for the aircraft EPS controller.

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  Hokeun Kim, Liangpeng Guo, Edward A. Lee, Alberto
  Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "A Tool Integration Approach
  for Architectural Exploration of Aircraft Electric Power
  Systems". IEEE Proceedings of the 1st International
  Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and
  Applications, IEEE, 38-43, 2013.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{KimGuoLeeSangiovanniVincentelli13_ToolIntegrationApproachForArchitecturalExplorationOf,
      author = {Hokeun Kim and Liangpeng Guo and Edward A. Lee and
                Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli},
      title = {A Tool Integration Approach for Architectural
                Exploration of Aircraft Electric Power Systems},
      booktitle = {IEEE Proceedings of the 1st International
                Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks,
                and Applications},
      organization = {IEEE},
      pages = {38-43},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {For emerging safety-critical systems, it is
                beneficial to cope with design validation,
                performance estimation, and design space
                exploration in early design stages. In this paper,
                we explore the architectural choices of an
                aircraft electric power system (EPS) controller
                using Ptolemy II and Metro II. The design is
                modeled in separate aspects: the functional aspect
                models the logics and behaviors that fulfill the
                functionality of the controller, and the
                architectural aspect models the behaviors of the
                platform that implements the controller. The
                co-design benefits from the rigorous Model of
                Computation (MoC) in Ptolemy II, which facilitates
                the analysis and validation of functional aspect,
                as well as the flexibility and expressiveness
                provided by Metro II, in which complex
                architectural models can be built with the
                flexibility of changing the mapping. Co-simulation
                integrates the functional model and the
                architectural model using Metro II semantics. By
                clearly separating the functional aspect and the
                architectural aspect, the performance can be
                estimated at an early design stage, and the
                architectural exploration can be done in a more
                efficient manner.We show the effectiveness and
                extensibility of our approach using experiments
                and results with example candidates for the
                aircraft EPS controller.},
      URL = {http://icyphy.org/pubs/30.html}
  }
  

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