WG211/M12Schultz

Automatic Generation of an Electronics-to-Middleware Interface Layer by Ulrik Pagh Schultz, joint work with Anders Lange

This talk reports on a work-in-progress, the development of a DSL for automatically generating VHDL and high-level code for using FPGAs to interface electronics (sensors and actuators) to high-level middleware. All real-time control is handled in the FPGA, and the approach allows software components to be easily migrated from high-level middleware to a real-time context executing on the FPGA. This talk presents the overall idea, with a focus on current considerations on design and implementation related to program generation.