A Graphical Model-Level Debugger for Heterogenous Reconfigurable Architectures

Graphical modeling languages allow to specify structure and behavior of mixed hardware-and software-systems on high abstraction level and can be automatically rendered into deployable implementations. In this paper we extend a model-based development process by means to debug functionality specified using Matlab Stateflow models in its hardware-and software-implementation on the target system. The user can control and view the system state graphically from the model´s level. We introduce an Eclipse based software-tool based on our approach and apply it to a dynamically reconfigurable slot-based FPGA runtime environment.