Monitoring Executions on Recon figurable Hardware at Model Level
Tobias Schwalb, Philipp Graf, K. D. Mueller-Glaser · 2010
Abstract. Development, debugging and test of embedded systems get more and more complex due to increasing size and complexity of implementations. To dominate this complexity, nowadays designs are often based on models. However, while the design is on model level, the monitoring and debugging are still either on signal or on code level. This paper presents a continuous concept that allows monitoring and realtime recording of executions on reconfigurable hardware at model level. Besides developed hardware debugger modules, a development environment has been integrated. It allows on model level generation of the implementation, control of the recording and monitoring at runtime and visualization of the execution. An algorithm, running in the background, maps acquired data from the hardware to the model and commands from the model-based development environment to the hardware. The method is demonstrated using the example of statechart diagram monitoring.