The PHARAON project: Parallel and Heterogeneous Architecture for Real-Time Applications

In this article, we present the work-in-progress of the EU FP7 PHARAON project, started in September 20 11. The first objective of the project is the developme nt of new techniques and tools capable to assist the designer in the development of parallel embedded systems, from executabl e specifications to target-specific implementation and debug ging on a multicore platform. This tool chain will offer and implement several parallelization strategies, reflecting the functional and non-functional constraints of the system, and drivi ng the designer into incremental parallelization and adaptat ion steps. The second objective of the project is to develop m onitoring and control techniques in the middleware of the sys tem capable to automatically adapt platform services to application requirements and therefore reduce power consumption transparently. Keywords-component; UML; parallelisation; OpenMP; lowpower; ressource management; profiling; multiprocessor