Concept-based Design of Embedded Systems : Designing Product Families for Large Multi-domain Multifunctional Embedded Systems

ISBN-13: 9783639200003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 128 str.

Waseem Ahmed

Opis

Hardware-Software partitioning is an important phase in the design of Embedded Systems. Decisions made during this phase impact the quality, cost, performance and the delivery date of the final product. A majority of existing approaches operate at a relatively fine granularity which presents problems if the context is families of products with frequent release of upgraded or new members. Designing using a higher coarser-level granularity imposes component integration and replacement problems during system evolution and new product release. A new approach termed Concept-Based Design (CBD) is presented that focuses on System Evolution, Product Lines and large scale reuse. Beginning with information from UML 2.0 sequence diagrams and a Concept Repository, Concepts, the fundamental units of reuse in the CBD, are identified within a specification, which are then used to assemble large systems. Change localization during system evolution, composability during large-scale reuse and provision for configurable feature variations for a product line are facilitated by a Generic Adaptive Layer (GAL) created around selected concepts.

O autorze

The author obtained his Ph.D. from the Curtin University of Technology and his M.S. degree from the University of Houston. His research interests are in the areas of HPC, Embedded Systems and Multicore Computing. He is currently working as a Professor at P.A. College of Engineering in Mangalore, India. He may be contacted at waseem@computer.org.