SMAC FP7-ICT-2011-7 – 288827 - CP IP DELIVERABLE 2.3.1

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SMAC

SMArt systems Co-design

Project co-funded by the European Union

FP7-ICT-2011-7 – 288827 – CP IP

D2.3.1 Preliminary Release of the SMAC Co-Simulation Platform

Due date of deliverable: March 2013

Start date of project: 1 October 2011 Duration:42 months

Organisation name of lead contractor for this deliverable: AGT

Author(s): Dimitrios TRACHANIS (AGT), Dimitrios DROGOUDIS (AGT), Victor KLYMKO(TUE), Diwei HE(UNNOT), Graziano PRAVADELLI (EDAL), Gerold SCHROPFER (CVT), Giovanni VINCI (ST), Renaud GILLON (ONSEMI)

Validated by: Jan VAN HESE (AGT), John BUCKLEY (Tyndall), Viera STOPJAKOVA (STUBA)

Revision: V1.14

Date of Issue: 13 November 2013

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This document presents an overview of the preliminary release of the SMAC Co-Simulation Platform. More specifically, all the updates that have

taken place at the modeling tools provided by the partners, in order to realize the implementation of the platform, are documented. Furthermore,

guidelines on the usage of the platform, to let a Smart System Designer make use of the platform, are provided. Finally, specific Use Case Scenarios

are presented as reference examples.

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guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The user thereof uses the

information at its sole risk and liability. The EU has no liability in respect of this document, which is merely

representing the authors' view.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................................... 3

List Of Figures ............................................................................................................................................ 4

1. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................ 5

2. Summary of Deliverable D2.3.1 ......................................................................................................... 6

3. Conclusions ........................................................................................................................................ 9

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List Of Figures

Figure 1: Current View of the SMAC Platform.............................................................................................. 6

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1. Executive Summary

The SMAC platform aims to provide to designers and system integrators a flexible software environment

for the development, integration, and co-simulation of Smart Systems. The goal of the work package this

deliverable belongs to (WP2) is the integration of components and sub-systems of a Smart System and

the usage of the SMAC platform to (co-)simulate them. The specification of the SMAC platform has been

defined in (WP1).

The current document is a publishable summary of deliverable D2.3.1. The deliverable is the result of

actions performed for Task T2.3:Co-simulation platform. The participants of this task, under the

leadership of AGT, are AGT, ST, ONSemi, CVT, EDAL, UNOTT, TUE.

This task expands until M30 and is associated with two deliverables: D2.3.1 (M18) and D2.3.2 (M30). The

first deliverable (this document) presents the SMAC co-simulation platform and its usage in a preliminary

version. The platform will be tested on several Use Cases and the tools that the platform consists of, will

be further expanded in the months coming. The final release of the platform will be presented in

deliverable D2.3.2.

Deliverable D2.3.1 contained confidential data, coming from members of the consortium that could not be

disclosed. Thus, it was decided to keep the document as an internal document of the SMAC project.

However, a public summary was possible to be extracted and is presented in the next chapter of the

current document.

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2. Summary of Deliverable D2.3.1

Main objective of the SMAC project is the creation of a simulation platform where models from different

modeling domains, described at different abstraction levels, should be able to be simulated together ( co-

simulated ) within this platform. The platform should support as many modeling formats as possible,

assuring all the dominant formats per domain are included (e.g. VHDL and Verilog for the Digital

Domain). Furthermore, inside the platform many different simulators (e.g. MEMS, Circuit, Discrete-Event)

should be present. Finally, at least one flow should exist to permit the abstraction of a low level model up

to the System Level.

This document presents a summary of the deliverable D2.3.1. The ultimate goal of this deliverable is to

give an overview of the preliminary release of the SMAC Co-Simulation Platform. More specifically, it

presents a way to integrate many different simulators inside the SMAC platform. In order to achieve this,

some of the tools provided by the partners had to be extended, to enable their linkage with the rest of the

tools comprising the platform. Furthermore, it provides guidelines on the usage of the platform and

methodologies to simulate together MEMS, discrete, digital and other electronics within the SMAC

platform.

The proposed co-simulation platform, or alternatively “The SMAC platform”, as this is captured at the end

of the work performed for this deliverable, is presented in Figure 1:

Figure 1: Current View of the SMAC Platform

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The deliverable discusses the structure of the platform. More specifically, a visual comparison of the

SMAC platform before the beginning of the SMAC project and after that point is given (Figure 2, Figure

3). Furthermore, the way the tools provided by the partners have been extended / enhanced, in order to

meet the platform’s requirements, is presented.

Figure 2: Before "SMAC platform"

Figure 3: After "SMAC platform"

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Moreover, different possible usages of the platform are being described. The way to bring models from

different domains at the System Level, so that a System-Level simulation of the whole System is

possible, is analysed.

Finally, Test Case Scenarios, provided by the partners, are mapped onto the platform. This way, the

whole procedure from the individual parts that comprise a System towards the simulation of the System,

as a whole, is revealed.

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3. Conclusions

The main outcome of the deliverable is that, in order to get a heterogeneous system to be simulated in a

seamless manner, a set of tools should be combined through specific interfaces and special abstraction

techniques should be applied to low level models. The combination of the above assemblies results in a

flow where dissimilar parts of a smart system can be brought up to the system level, as similar model

representations. A simulation of the complete system can then take place.

The reader of the deliverable should be able to understand how the SMAC platform can be used to

address the modeling and simulation of Smart Systems in a seamless manner. It shall provide great

value to System Architects and be the referring document in the setup of the demonstrators.