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Design Methodology for Picoradio Networks  

Rong Chen, University of California at Berkeley
Fernando De Bernardinis, University of California at Berkeley
Roberto Passerone, University of California at Berkeley
Alessandro Pinto, University of California at Berkeley
Marco Sgroi, University of California at Berkeley
Gerald Wang, University of California at Berkeley
Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, University of California at Berkeley
Jan Rabaey, University of California at Berkeley


The goal of the PICORADIO project at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center is to design a low power wireless sensor network able to support a variety of distributed applications. This requires to design a protocol stack that rules the communication among nodes and that consists of the application, network, datalink and physical layers. To derive a low-power and cost-effective protocol implementation from an initial set of requirements, it is critical to use a system design methodology that allows to fully explore the design space and tradeoff different implementation solutions.

Our goal is to develop a design methodology, based on successive refinement, that supports specification, validation and synthesis of wireless protocols. The flow we are defining is based on Cadence VCC for functional validation of the algorithms and for architecture exploration as shown in [1], and UML [2] to specify and document each design step. A methodology based on Metropolis [3], an embedded system design framework that emphasizes design reuse by decoupling computation and communication, is also under development.

Publications:

J.L. da Silva Jr.; J. Shamberger, M.J. Ammer, C. Guo, S. Li, R. Shah, T. Tuan, M. Sheets, J. Rabaey, B. Nikolic, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, P. Wright, Design methodology for PicoRadio networks. Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe. Conference and Exhibition 2001, Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe. Conference and Exhibition 2001, Munich, Germany, 13-16 March 2001. 

M. Sgroi, J. da Silva Jr., F. De Bernardinis, F. Burghardt, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and J. Rabaey, Designing Wireless Protocols: Methodology and Applications. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP '00, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000. 

J. da Silva Jr., M. Sgroi, F. De Bernardinis, S.F Li, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and J. Rabaey, Wireless Protocols Design: Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign, CODES '00, S.Diego, CA, USA, May 2000.

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