UML-Based Development of Embedded Real-Time Software on Multi-Core in Practice: Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives

Model-driven engineering has got a foothold in industry as an effective way to tame the complexity of modern software, which is meant to run on embedded systems with real-time constraints by promoting abstraction, in terms of prescriptive models, and automation, in terms of model manipulations. In t...

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Published in:IEEE access Vol. 4; pp. 6528 - 6540
Main Authors: Ciccozzi, Federico, Seceleanu, Tiberiu, Corcoran, Diarmuid, Scholle, Detlef
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
ALF
Automation
Biological system modeling
code generation
Complexity theory
Computer models
embedded
Embedded systems
Industrial development
Model-Driven Engineering
Modelling
Multicore processing
Optimization
Programming languages
Real time
Real-time systems
Software
Software engineering
Specification and description languages
task allocation optimization
UML
Unified modeling language
ISSN:2169-3536, 2169-3536
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Summary:Model-driven engineering has got a foothold in industry as an effective way to tame the complexity of modern software, which is meant to run on embedded systems with real-time constraints by promoting abstraction, in terms of prescriptive models, and automation, in terms of model manipulations. In the plethora of modeling languages, the unified modeling language (UML) has emerged and established itself as a de facto standard in industry, the most widely used architectural description language and an ISO/IEC standard. In the SMARTCore project, we have provided solutions for the UML-based development of software to run on multicore embedded real-time systems with the specific focus of automating the generation of executable code and the optimization of task allocation based on a unique combination of model-based and execution-based mechanisms. In this paper, we describe the lessons learned in the research work carried out within SMARTCore and provide a set of perspectives that we consider to be highly relevant for the forthcoming future of this research area to enable a wider adoption of UML-based development in industry in general, and in the multicore embedded real-time domain in particular.
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ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2604018