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A model-based framework for software portability and verification in embedded power management systems

A model-based framework for software portability and verification in embedded power management systems
A model-based framework for software portability and verification in embedded power management systems
Run-Time Management (RTM) systems are used in embedded systems to dynamically adapt hardware performance to minimise energy consumption. A significant challenge is that RTM software can require laborious manual adjustment across different hardware platforms due to the diversity of architecture characteristics. Model-driven development offers the potential to simplify the management of platform diversity by shifting the focus away from hand-written platform-specific code to platform-independent models from which platform-specific implementations are automatically generated. Furthermore, the use of formal verification provides the means to ensure that implementations are correct-by-construction. In this paper, we present a framework for automatic generation of RTM implementations from platform-independent formal models. The methodology in designing the RTM systems uses a high-level mathematical language, Event-B, which can describe systems at different abstraction levels. A code generation tool is used to translate platform-independent Event-B RTM models to platform-specific implementations in C. Formal verification is used to ensure correctness of the Event-B models. The portability offered by our methodology is validated by modelling a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based RTM for two embedded applications and generating implementations for three different platforms (ARM Cortex-A8, A7 and A15) that all achieve energy savings on the respective platforms.
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Salehi Fathabadi, Asieh
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Butler, Michael J.
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Yang, Sheng
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Bantock, James
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Salehi Fathabadi, Asieh, Butler, Michael J., Yang, Sheng, Maeda-Nunez, Luis, Bantock, James, Al-Hashimi, Bashir M. and Merrett, Geoff V. (2018) A model-based framework for software portability and verification in embedded power management systems. Journal of Systems Architecture, 82, 12-23. (doi:10.1016/j.sysarc.2017.12.001).

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Abstract

Run-Time Management (RTM) systems are used in embedded systems to dynamically adapt hardware performance to minimise energy consumption. A significant challenge is that RTM software can require laborious manual adjustment across different hardware platforms due to the diversity of architecture characteristics. Model-driven development offers the potential to simplify the management of platform diversity by shifting the focus away from hand-written platform-specific code to platform-independent models from which platform-specific implementations are automatically generated. Furthermore, the use of formal verification provides the means to ensure that implementations are correct-by-construction. In this paper, we present a framework for automatic generation of RTM implementations from platform-independent formal models. The methodology in designing the RTM systems uses a high-level mathematical language, Event-B, which can describe systems at different abstraction levels. A code generation tool is used to translate platform-independent Event-B RTM models to platform-specific implementations in C. Formal verification is used to ensure correctness of the Event-B models. The portability offered by our methodology is validated by modelling a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based RTM for two embedded applications and generating implementations for three different platforms (ARM Cortex-A8, A7 and A15) that all achieve energy savings on the respective platforms.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 December 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 December 2017
Published date: January 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 416805
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/416805
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ORCID for Asieh Salehi Fathabadi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0508-3066
ORCID for Michael J. Butler: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4642-5373
ORCID for James Bantock: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0766-7532
ORCID for Geoff V. Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Author: Asieh Salehi Fathabadi ORCID iD
Author: Michael J. Butler ORCID iD
Author: Sheng Yang
Author: Luis Maeda-Nunez
Author: James Bantock ORCID iD
Author: Bashir M. Al-Hashimi
Author: Geoff V. Merrett ORCID iD

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