Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
XML: The Annotated Specification
XML: The Annotated Specification
Microarchitectural exploration with Liberty
Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Facilitating an automated approach to architecture-based software reuse
ASE '97 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Automated software engineering (formerly: KBSE)
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
An Environment for Dynamic Component Composition for Efficient Co-Design
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Networks on chip
An extensible type system for component-based design
An extensible type system for component-based design
Facilitating reuse in hardware models with enhanced type inference
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
SPARTACAS Automating Component Reuse and Adaptation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Transaction-Level Modeling with Systemc: Tlm Concepts and Applications for Embedded Systems
Transaction-Level Modeling with Systemc: Tlm Concepts and Applications for Embedded Systems
EWD: A metamodeling driven customizable multi-MoC system modeling framework
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
BALBOA: a component-based design environment for system models
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Provably correct on-chip communication: A formal approach to automatic protocol converter synthesis
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
A methodology for constraint-driven synthesis of on-chip communications
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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Reusing Intellectual Property (IP)-cores accompanied by automated generation of the glue-logic, and automated composability checks can help designers to create efficient system-level models quickly and correctly for fast design space exploration. Furthermore, with the rise of multiple transaction level and register-transfer level abstractions, constructing models with mixed abstraction levels is also important. A framework that allows designers to: 1) describe the structure of components, their interfaces, and their interactions, with a semantically rich visual frontend; 2) automatically select IPs from a component library-based on sound-type theoretic principles; and 3) perform constraint based checks for composability, is highly desirable in this context. A metamodel based framework brings forth further advantages. It helps in: 1) providing rigorous semantics to the visual models; 2) imposing restrictions on the model and on interactions between components through constraints expressed in a constraint language; and 3) enabling type-checking and inference-based facilities. Furthermore, using XML-based schemas to store and process meta-information about the IPs as well as the schematic visual model, allows for an IP selection and integration methodology using existing XML processing tools. With these in mind, we present MCF, a metamodeling-based component composition framework for SystemC-based IP core composition at multiple and mixed abstraction levels, with all the advantages stated above.