High-Level Modeling and Exploration of a Powerline Communication Network Based on System-on-Chip - Multi-objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor SoC Architectures - page 153

7.2.2.3 modeFRONTIER: Analysis and Exploration Tool

modeFRONTIER tool from ESTECO acts as the control entity of the process.
Through the MULTICUBE-defined interface, it injects chosen combinations of
parameters in the platform. MULTICUBE SCoPE plug-in receives these combi-
nations and modifies the platform behavior. The results are transmitted back to
modeFRONTIER through another MULTICUBE-defined interface.
In order to define the whole process, modeFRONTIER needs to be informed about
the parameters and metrics that are being studied through a MULTICUBE-defined
XML file. In this use case, we have used the following file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<design_space xmlns="http://www.multicube.eu/" version="1.3">
<simulator>
<simulator_executable path="/local/projects/External/
Multi3/UseCase/v6_0/test/system/test1/run.sh" />
</simulator>
<parameters>
<parameter name="LOSS_value" description="% loss of
packets" type="integer" min="0" max="10000" step="50" />
<parameter name="MAX_CELLS_PKT_value" description="MAX
CELL PKT" type="integer" min="64" max="4096" step="32"/>
<parameter name="MAX_CELLS_FEC_value" description="MAX
CELL FEC" type="integer" min="64" max="4096" step="32"/>
<parameter name="FEC_LENGTH_value" description="FEC
LENGTH" type="integer" min="120" max="540" step="420"/>
<parameter name="ACK_value" description="ACK ACTIVE"
type="integer" min="0" max="1" step="1" />
</parameters>
<rules>
</rules>
<system_metrics>
<system_metric name="Power_Consumption" type="float"
unit="W"/>
<system_metric name="xput0_1" type="float"
unit="Bit/s"/>
<system_metric name="xput1_0" type="float"
unit="Bit/s"/>
<system_metric name="MaxJitter0_1" type="float"
unit="s" desired="small"/>
<system_metric name="LatencyMin0_1" type="float"
unit="s" desired="small"/>
<system_metric name="LatencyMax0_1" type="float"
unit="s" desired="small"/>
<system_metric name="LatencyMean0_1" type="float"
unit="s" desired="small"/>
<system_metric name="MaxJitter1_0" type="float"
unit="s" desired="small"/>
<system_metric name="LatencyMax1_0" type="float"
unit="s" desired="small"/>
<system_metric name="LatencyMin1_0" type="float"
unit="s" desired="small"/>
<system_metric name="LatencyMean1_0" type="float"