System Design for Flexibility

Authors:
C. Haubelt;J. Teich;K. Richter;R. Ernst
Affiliations:
DATE, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany;DATE, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany;IDA, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany;IDA, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Year:
2002

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Abstract

With the term flexibility, we introduce a new design dimensionof an embedded system that quantitatively characterizesits feasibility in implementing not only one, but possiblyseveral alternative behaviors. This is important whendesigning systems that may adopt their behavior during operation,e.g., due to new environmental conditions, or whendimensioning a platform-based system that must implementa set of different behaviors. A hierarchical graph model isintroduced that allows to model flexibility and cost of a systemformally. Based on this model, an efficient explorationalgorithm to find the optimal flexibility/cost-tradeoff-curveof a system using the example of the design of a family ofSet-Top boxes is proposed.