DocumentCode :
2807203
Title :
Software/Hardware Engineering with the Parallel Object-Oriented Specification Language
Author :
Theelen, B.D. ; Florescu, O. ; Geilen, M.C.W. ; Huang, J. ; van der Putten, P.H.A. ; Voeten, J.P.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng.; Embedded Syst. Inst, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven
fYear :
2007
fDate :
May 30 2007-June 2 2007
Firstpage :
139
Lastpage :
148
Abstract :
The complexity of designing hardware/software systems motivates research on frameworks that structure and automate the design process. Such design methodologies reduce the risk of expensive design-implementation iterations by assisting designers in constructing models. Software/hardware engineering (SHE) is a general-purpose system-level design methodology that supports analysing both functional correctness and performance properties. SHE combines the Unified Modelling Language with the parallel object-oriented specification language to specify models. The designer is assisted in constructing models using these languages and applying the analysis techniques with various guidelines and modelling patterns. A key feature of SHE is its foundation on formal methods, which ensures that the obtained analysis results are unambiguous. SHE also includes guidelines and techniques for automatic synthesis of real-time control software. This is again based on formal methods to ensure that properties in a model (including real-time properties) are preserved by the software realisation. Finally, to enable an effective and efficient application of the modelling languages as well as the analysis and synthesis techniques, SHE is accompanied with a set of user-friendly tools. This paper gives an overview of SHE, thereby briefly touching upon the underlying mathematical foundation of the analysis and synthesis techniques as well as upon some open issues that require further research.
Keywords :
formal specification; hardware-software codesign; object-oriented languages; software engineering; Unified Modelling Language; formal methods; general-purpose system-level design methodology; parallel object-oriented specification language; real-time control software; software/hardware engineering; Design engineering; Design methodology; Guidelines; Hardware; Object oriented modeling; Process design; Software design; Software performance; Software systems; Specification languages;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Formal Methods and Models for Codesign, 2007. MEMOCODE 2007. 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1050-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/MEMCOD.2007.371231
Filename :
4231790
Link To Document :
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