Design objective for VILLAS framework: a holistic framework with modular and generic architecture.
Integration Layers
Three integration layers are foreseen based on the diversity of the facilities and applications:
- Hard Real-Time Integration Layer (H-RTIL)
- Soft Real-Time Integration Layer (S-RTIL)
- Offline Integration Layer (O-IL)
VILLAS integration layers.
Hard Real-Time Integration Layer (H-RTIL)
- Integrates digital real-time simulators, actual hardware devices and test benches into a joint experiment
- H-RTIL requires interfaces that provide deterministic and synchronized data exchange between laboratories
- Real-time protocols and physical point-to-point connections should be used
Soft Real-Time Integration Layer (S-RTIL)
- Integration of tools and applications with less critical timing requirements (inaccurate timing or time-varying delays are acceptable to some extent)
- User interaction via web-based access
- High-level tools, system level control, optimization applications
Offline Integration Layer (O-IL)
- Integration of domain-specific analyses that are performed at pre-experiment and post-experiment phases
- An interface to adapt parameters or models of experiments in a pre-experiment phase
- Non-real-time tasks during the experiment, such as data logging for Data as a Service
Example scenarios
The following diagrams show example configuration of VILLASframework components as they have been used in various demonstrations and experiments:
Two site scenario with VILLASfpga.
VILLASframework.
ERIClab scenario.
RT-SuperLab scenario.
