From design to implementation: tool support for the development of object-oriented distributed real-time systems

The increasing complexity in the development of real time systems leads designers to make use of techniques that help handle the complexity. One method to deal with complexity that became popular in the last years is the use of the object oriented paradigm. Some advances in hardware technology have made it possible to overcome the overhead problems that prevented its adoption in the past. The paper describes an integrated software environment called SiMOO-RT, developed under the context of ADOORATA project (A Distributed Object-Oriented Architecture for Real-Time Automation), a Brazilian-German cooperation that guides designers to explore the whole phases of a real time software development under the object oriented paradigm. The main features of the tool are presented and validated by means of a case study and future directions of the project are highlighted