High-level modeling and synthesis of smart sensor networks for Industrial Internet of Things

In this work, we use a high-level design methodology for the rapid hardware synthesis of a complex smart sensor network (SSN) system. The GRAFCET is then used to model the individual functional modules and the hierarchical behavior of the system. The behavior of each module is represented as a sequential–concurrent hybrid discrete event system. We apply high-level synthesis rules to generate a VHSIC hardware description language (VHDL)-target...