Component-Based Software Development for Embedded Systems – An Introduction

In many safety-critical missions, more and more Multiprocessor Embedded Systems are used to provide the ability of fault tolerance. Using Operating System can easy software design and make software development more efficient. Because of the limited resource in Embedded Systems, many advanced technologies used in common desktop multiprocessor environment have not been used in Embedded RTOS yet. In this paper, we introduce the technologies of Virtual CPU Pool and Multiprocessor Processor Communication Interface to solve task distributing and communication between deferent CPUs. After using and mending uC/OS, I finally realize and test an Operating System in a kind of SMP multiprocessor hardware module successfully.

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COMPONENT-BASED EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK, QUALITY ASSURANCE AND A GENERIC ASSESSMENT ENVIRONMENT

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ◽

10.1142/s0218194002000846 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 12 (02) ◽

pp. 107-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

XIA CAI ◽

MICHAEL R. LYU ◽

KAM-FAI WONG

Keyword(s):

Quality Assurance ◽

Embedded Systems ◽

Software Development ◽

Digital Signal Processor ◽

Real Life ◽

Digital Signal ◽

Embedded Software ◽

Development Framework ◽

Assessment Environment ◽

Flexible Component

Embedded software is used to control the functions of mechanical and physical devices by dedicated digital signal processor and computers. Nowadays, heterogeneous and collaborative embedded software systems are widely adopted to engage the physical world. To make such software extremely reliable, very efficient and highly flexible, component-based embedded software development can be employed for the complex embedded systems, especially those based on object-oriented (OO) approaches. In this paper, we introduce a component-based embedded software framework and the features it inherits. We propose a quality assurance (QA) model for component-based embedded software development, which covers both the component QA and the system QA as well as their interactions. Furthermore, we propose a generic quality assessment environment for component-based embedded systems: ComPARE. ComPARE can be used to assess real-life off-the-shelf components and to evaluate and validate the models selected for their evaluation. The overall component-based embedded systems can then be composed and analyzed seamlessly.

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A Comprehensive Embedded Systems Lab for Teaching Web-Based Remote Software Development

2010 23rd IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training ◽

10.1109/cseet.2010.22 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Janusz Zalewski

Keyword(s):

Embedded Systems ◽

Software Development ◽

Web Based

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