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SHIM: a deterministic model for heterogeneous embedded systems

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Stephen A. Edwards,

Olivier TardieuAuthors Info & Claims

EMSOFT '05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Embedded software

Pages 264 - 272

https://doi.org/10.1145/1086228.1086277

Published: 18 September 2005 Publication History

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Typical embedded hardware/software systems are implemented using a combination of C and an hdl such as Verilog. While each is well-behaved in isolation, combining the two gives a nondeterministic model whose ultimate behavior must be validated through expensive (cycle-accurate) simulation.We propose an alternative for describing such systems. Our shim (software/hardware integration medium) model, effectively Kahn networks with rendezvous communication, provides deterministic concurrency. We present the Tiny-shim language for such systems and its semantics, demonstrate how to implement it in hardware and software, and discuss how it can be used to model a real-world system.By providing a powerful, deterministic formalism for expressing systems, designing systems and verifying their correctness will become easier.

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SHIM: a deterministic model for heterogeneous embedded systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
2. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program semantics

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Reviewer: S. Ramesh

This paper proposes a new model, software/hardware integration medium (SHIM), for describing embedded hardware/software systems. It is essentially the well-known Kahn's model of process networks, but with the following important restriction: unbuffered handshake communication between processes. Based on this model, a language called Tiny-SHIM is presented with syntax and semantics. A software and hardware implementation of the language is described, as is a real-world case study using the model. Although the model itself may not be new, the motivation to use it for the description of hardware/software systems appears to be quite novel. It is common in the domain of concurrent languages to provide features of nondeterminism to support asynchronous execution of processes. The unique feature of SHIM is that it supports asynchronous execution of processes, but with determinism. While the utility of the model is clear, it is hard to imagine SHIM as a design language for embedded software, as the level of abstraction provided by the model is rather low. Online Computing Reviews Service

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DOI:10.1145/1086228

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