Model-driven development of multi-core embedded software

  • Authors:

  • Pao-Ann Hsiung;Shang-Wei Lin; Yean-Ru Chen; Nien-Lin Hsueh; Chih-Hung Chang; Chih-Hsiong Shih; Chorng-Shiuh Koong; Chao-Sheng Lin; Chun-Hsien Lu; Sheng-Ya Tong; Wan-Ting Su;William C. Chu

  • Affiliations:

  • National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan;National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan;National Taiwan University, Taiwan;Feng Chia University, Taiwan;Hsiuping Institute of Technology, Taiwan;Tunghai University, Taiwan;National Taichung University, Taiwan;National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan;National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan;National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan;National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan;Tunghai University, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • IWMSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Model-driven development is worthy of further research because of its proven capabilities in increasing productivity and ensuring correctness. However, it has not yet been explored for multi-core processor-based embedded systems, whose programming is even more complex and difficult that that for conventional uni-processor systems. We propose a new VERTAF/Multi-Core (VMC) framework to bridge this gap. In this work, we mainly show how VMC generates code automatically from user-specified SysML models for multi-core embedded systems. We illustrate how model-driven design based on SysML can be seamlessly integrated with Intels threading building blocks (TBB) and the Quantum Framework middleware. We use a digital video recording system to illustrate the benefits of VMC. Our experiments show how SysML/QF/TBB make multi-core embedded system programming easy, efficient, and effortless.