A requirements-driven simulation framework for communication infrastructures design
Alessandro Meroni, Vincenzo Rana, Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Francesco Bruschi · 2008
Dynamic reconfiguration capabilities of FPGA devices are commonly exploited in order to perform changes in a system with respect to computational elements. In this paper, we propose a framework able to exploit different levels of simulations in order to perform a requirements-driven design of the communication infrastructure of a reconfigurable system, so that the overall performances can be improved. To accomplish this requirements-driven design it is necessary to perform a design space exploration of applications and scenarios in which a particular system can be used. A new scenario-centric approach is proposed in order to identify metrics and requirements needed to apply a communication infrastructure reconfiguration.