INFORMATICA International Journal Main Page Editorial Board Abstracting/Indexing Instructions to Authors Subscription Information Contents Author Index Papers in Production		INFORMATICA, 2004, Vol. 15, No. 1, 111-126 © Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, ISSN 0868-4952 Soft IP Customisation Model Based on Metaprogramming Techniques Vytautas STUIKYS, Robertas DAMASEVICIUS Software Engineering Department, Kaunas University of Technology Student\k u 50, LT-3031 Kaunas, Lithuania E-mail: vystu@if.ktu.lt, damarobe@soften.ktu.lt Abstract We propose a layered Soft IP Customisation (SIPC) model for specifying and implementing system-level soft IP design processes such as wrapping and customisation. The SIPC model has three layers: (1) Specification Layer for specification of a customisation process using UML class diagrams, (2) Generalisation Layer for representation of a customisation process using the metaprogramming techniques, and (3) Generation Layer for generation of the customised soft IP instances from metaspecifications. UML allows us to specify customisation of soft IPs at a high level of abstraction. Metaprogramming allows us to manage variability in a domain, develop generic domain components, and describe generation of customised component instances. The usage of the SIPC model eases and accelerates reuse, adaptation and integration of the pre-designed soft IPs into new hardware designs. Keywords: soft IP design, reuse, customisation, metaprogramming, UML, generation To preview Lithuanian abstract see full article text To preview full article text in PDF format click here You could obtain free Acrobat Reader from Adobe
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