FROM REQUIREMENTS CAPTURE TO SILICON: A MODEL-DRIVEN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH TO RAPID DESIGN, PROTOTYPING AND DEVELOPMENT USED IN THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY'S COGNITIVE RADIO PROGRAM

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2008

OSTI ID:958900

Buckner, Mark A ^[1]; Kaldenbach, Brian J ^[1]; Nory, Nakhaee ^[2]; Moore, Michael Roy ^[1]; Bouldin, Donald ^[3]; Mills, Jonathan ^[4]

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1. ORNL
2. Sundance DSP Inc
3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
4. Indiana University

The performance and complexity of the signal processing hardware accessible to SDR/CR/RADAR designers has quickly out-paced the available design tools. The advances in Digital Signal Processors (DSP) both fixed- and floating-point, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), and multicore processors have enabled rapid prototyping and deployment of platforms that can be dynamically reconfigured in the field to implement a variety of SDR/CR/RADAR waveforms. Until recently the process of creating waveforms meant starting with high-level mathematical models and simulations and then creating production quality code that can operate on this variety of specialized hardware using either hand coding or vendor specific tools, which are typically limited to single processor solutions. This paper discusses an integrated model-driven design process and tool-flow used in ORNL's Cognitive Radio Program. It describes how the process and tool-flow are used on a variety of SDR and CR projects and in the development of a software-defined RADAR environment simulator. It describes how, from a single Simulink model, a single deadlock free real-time multiprocessor application is created and executed on a network of heterogeneous processors. We also describe recent progress on extending the process/tool-flow to design digital ASICs and our plans for future extensions. We close by highlighting the benefits being realized from applying this design flow to SDR/CR/RADAR projects at ORNL: (1) a significant reduction in the time required to develop, prototype, implement and test SDR/CR/RADAR waveforms, (2) increased reusability/retargetabilty of SDR/CR/RADAR designs and signal processing library components, (3) the ability to quickly port SDR/CR/RADAR waveforms to different hardware systems and processor types, (4) improvements in documentation, and (5) traceability of system components back to original requirements.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Sponsoring Organization: ORNL work for others
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 958900
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
ARRAY PROCESSORS
DESIGN
DOCUMENTATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
ORNL
PERFORMANCE
PROCESSING
PRODUCTION
RADAR
SILICON
WAVE FORMS