Desenvolvimento de uma arquitetura multiprocessada e reconfigurável para a síntese de redes de Petri em hardware
2008; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2639-6459
Autores Tópico(s)Embedded Systems Design Techniques
ResumoThe goal of this thesis is to develop a reconfigurable multiprocessed architecture that allows the physical implementation of systems described by T-timed colored Petri nets with constant arcs having transitions with firing probabilities. The architecture can be used to implement control systems (not to evaluation Petri net properties). With this architecture, physical implementation of systems can be achieved through technology mapping directly from behavioral level, without the need to go through an expensive high level synthesis process to describe the system into boolean equations and state transition tables. The architecture comprises an array of configuration blocks named BCERPs; reconfigurable blocks named BCGNs; and a communication system implemented using a set of routers. BCERP blocks can be configured to implement Petri net transitions as well as the corresponding input places. BCGN blocks are used by BCERPs for pseudo random number generation. These numbers can define transitions firing probabilities. They can also be used for conflict resolution, which happens when two or more transitions share one or more input places. The communication system presents a grid topology. Its main functions are packet storage and routing among configuration blocks. The routers, BCGNs and BCERPs configuration blocks were described in VHDL and implemented in FPGAs.
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