A concurrent design approach for data flow dominated embedded systems

The increased complexity and short life cycle of today´s embedded systems increase the need of more aggressive methodology capable of designing systems quicker and more easily. In this paper, with the help of dynamic data flow modeling technique and a component-oriented implementation architecture, we present a concurrent design approach for data flow dominated embedded system. The approach can decompose the design process of an embedded system into a lot of separate design items with the consistency being maintained. The generation of implementation code framework for hardware/software components and implementation code for different types of data paths not only accelerates the design process, but also provides a guarantee for the integrity of the target system.