Cyberphysical-System-On-Chip (CPSoC): A Self-Aware Design Paradigm with Cross-Layer Virtual Sensors and Actuators

Cyberphysical systems (CPSs) are physical and engineered systems, whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled, and integrated by a computing, control, and communication core. We propose Cyberphysical-system-on-chips (CPSoC), a new class of sensor-actuator rich MPSoC, that additionally couple on-chip and cross-layer sensing and actuation to enable self-awareness within the observe-decide-act (ODA) paradigm. Unlike tradition MPSoC designs, CPSoC differs primarily on the co-design of control, communication, and computing system that interacts with the physical environment in real-time in order to modify their behavior so as to adaptively achieve certain objectives and Qualityof-Service (QoS) illustrated with a cogent use case.