Device Modeling for a Flexible Embedded Systems Development Process

Methodologies, techniques and tools that currently support the embedded systems (ESs) development process prove inadequate for today´s complex ESs. Adopted traditional architectural styles do not cover the whole requirements of the development process, with extensibility being the major drawback. Service-oriented computing is exploited in this paper, to define an architectural framework for a demand-led ESs development process. Features required in the development process are defined as Web-services, published in the public domain, and used on demand through semantic Web by developers to construct their projects´ specific integrated development environment (IDE). The way that these services affect the development process is discussed with main focus on an ontology-based device modeling.