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An Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) keynote paper presented recently by computer engineers has laid out a framework to improve research on cyber-physical systems, or what is commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT).
Cyber-physical systems vary from phones to smart cars, and are both, touchable objects and in code. However, as streamlined as cyber-physical systems appear, the technology developed within manufacturing systems were not designed to accommodate it.
According to an article on the Michigan Tech Website, to change that, researchers from the Michigan Technological University, Boston University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Riverside, presented a paper published in IEEE Transactions in CAD (DOI: TKlink). It lays the groundwork for “better design in cyber-physical systems”, said the article.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (CAD) was the world’s leading journal in the field of CAD across the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science.
According to the paper’s authors, the register-transfer-level (RTL) design flow for digital circuits was one of the major success stories in electronic design automation. “Will a durable design methodology, such as the RTL design flow, emerge for cyber-physical systems?”
The answer, they said, depended on how well cross-disciplinary teams learned to manage heterogeneous and dynamic technologies across large scales while accounting for human users.
A better cyber-physical design system comes down to the nuts and bolts of new technology—but it was not as simple as separating out the mechanical and digital pieces.
This keynote paper presented an authoritative experts’ review and prospective on the design automation for cyber-physical systems.
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