Configurable Protocol Engine for Runtime-Configurable Communication Subsystems on Multiprocessor SoC

Author

Kukkala, Petri ; Hännikäinen, Marko ; Hämäläinen, Timo D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Digital & Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a configurable protocol engine (CPE) to implement runtime-configurable communication subsystems, which are able to adapt their protocol stacks to varying service requirements. The communication subsystems with CPE are designed and implemented using a UML-based design methodology and automated design flow. CPE has been applied to implementing wireless protocol stacks on multiprocessor system-on-chip (SoC) platforms. As a design case study, we present the implementation of a WSN-to-WLAN bridge on a multiprocessor SoC on FPGA. Experiences with CPE proved its feasibility in rapid implementation of communication subsystems with very decent performance

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; field programmable gate arrays; multiprocessing systems; protocols; system-on-chip; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; FPGA; UML-based design methodology; WLAN; WSN; automated design flow; configurable protocol engine; multiprocessor SoC; multiprocessor system-on-chip; runtime-configurable communication subsystems; wireless protocol stacks; Assembly; Bridges; Delay; Design methodology; Engines; Land mobile radio; Mobile communication; Multiprocessing systems; Quality management; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2006 IEEE 17th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0329-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2006.254154

Filename

4022348