Performance Overhead from the Usage of Software Abstraction on Complex Embedded Systems

Nowadays major embedded systems functionalities are developed in software. Moreover, to attend the market exigencies the software productivity has to be improves. This work analyzes the overhead caused by the application of abstraction levels in embedded systems software development. This analysis was done based in Google Android. The obtained results showed that even about 80% of the executed instructions where in the lower levels from the layer architecture in applications that reuse framework components.