Supporting embedded system design capture, analysis and navigation

The paper presents a COTS (commercial off the shelf) oriented view of the embedded systems design space. It summarizes a set of frameworks capturing a significant portion of this design space along with a selected set of methods. These methods enable engineers to easily generate and quantitatively evaluate points within the design space. The paper also briefly discusses the design space navigation problem. The frameworks and methods are restricted to address performance/resource management issues. The paper shows how the design capture frameworks can establish and maintain performance baselines for large scale, long life, embedded systems