FEMTO-OSGi: Architecture for reconfigurable embedded systems to service management by OSGi

This paper presents the development of a reconfigurable embedded system for a residential gateway, based on OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) and implemented using the FemtoJava technology. The proposed systems implements a service oriented architecture and provides support for service discovery and for communication between objects running on heterogeneous platforms. The paper also describes the experimental validation of the proposed architecture using as a case study a temperature control system. The system was implemented on a reconfigurable platform using a Xilinx SPARTAN FPGA.