@inproceedings{390, author = {Peter Volgyesi and Janos Sallai and Akos Ledeczi and P. Dutta and Miklos Maroti}, title = {Software development for a novel WSN platform}, abstract = {This work-in-progress paper introduces a new hardware platform for wireless sensor networks, summarizes the new challenges it creates for software development and describes a toolchain being developed to meet those challenges. The hardware platform is based on a low-power FPGA as opposed to a traditional microcontroller. The FPGA confi guration includes a soft core microcontroller, but there are plenty of resources left to implement a subset of the operating system, middleware and application components directly on the FPGA. Instead of creating this partition early in the design phase, we advocate a flexible hardware/software boundary enabling "late binding" of components to the softcore or the hardware fabric. This increases the complexity of the design space mandating sophisticated tool support. The paper describes a toolchain that helps manage this complexity. The two main tools are a domain-speci c modeling environment and a symbolic design-space exploration tool.}, year = {2010}, journal = {Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications}, month = {05/2010}, address = {Cape Town, South Africa}, }