The methods addressed by the project focus on challenges in the design of distributed microelectronic systems above the level of SoCs and NoCs (system combinations from networked subsystems). In this way, focal points are new specification methods for distributed systems, methods for the automated derivation of optimized connection topologies for given applications as well as the research of procedures for the performance and communication analysis of an automated dimensioning and parameterization of the interconnection structure. Additional focal points provide for ancillary conditions of the system environment in the modeling phase, the automated conduction of virtual prototypes from abstract system models as well as new approaches to the verification of models across domain and abstraction boundaries. Methods of resolution for the problems named will clearly facilitate the integration of systems in their networked environment in the future and in this way fundamentally simplify the system engineering process.
The shortcomings addressed in the project and scientific/technical goals derived from this can be divided into the following areas of emphasis:
• Modeling approaches will be studied, which support an integrated vision of the networked systems in early design phases and in this way form the foundation for methods for the automated determination of an optimized communication topology.
• Approaches to the methodical analysis of the communication and performance behavior of distributed microelectronic systems will be explored, which support an evaluation of communication topologies in an early phase of the system design process.
• Methods will be developed, which enable the verification of implementation models of the participating subsystems in the abstract distributed overall system model, so that integration errors are uncovered early on and in this way close the existing verification gap.
• The methods developed for the integrated compilation of distributed scenarios are integrated in design methodology, which delivers highly applicable design flows for distributed microelectronic systems of German automotive and mobile communication key technologies by utilizing concrete application and requirements knowledge.