Embedded Systems Development Tools: A MODUS-oriented Market Overview

• Authors: Michalis Loupis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Background: The embedded systems technology has perhaps been the most dominating technology in high-tech industries, in the past decade. The industry has correctly identified the potential of this technology and has put its efforts into exploring its full potential. Objectives: The goal of the paper is to explore the versatility of the application in the embedded system development based on one FP7-SME project. Methods/Approach: Embedded applications normally demand high resilience and quality, as well as conformity to quality standards and rigid performance. As a result embedded system developers have adopted software methods that yield high quality. The qualitative approach to examining embedded systems development tools has been applied in this work. Results: This paper presents a MODUS-oriented market analysis in the domains of Formal Verification tools, HW/SW co-simulation tools, Software Performance Optimization tools and Code Generation tools. Conclusions: The versatility of applications this technology serves is amazing. With all this performance potential, the technology has carried with itself a large number of issues which the industry essentially needs to resolve to be able to harness the full potential contained. The MODUS project toolset addressed four discrete domains of the ESD Software Market, in which corresponding open tools were developed

Keywords

EN

embedded systems; formal verification; co-simulation; performance optimization; code generation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Business Systems Research Journal
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 6-20

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-04-23

Contributors

author

Michalis Loupis

• Central Greece Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/bsrj-2014-0001