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Embedded Systems In The Automotive Industry
White Papers Automotive embedded systems are becoming more complex, as shown by the Volvo S80, where 18 control units are connected via two buses. These systems are really distributed real-time embedded control systems and must be engineered appropriately.
[October 26, 2003, 23:00]
Strategies For Debugging Embedded Systems
White Papers Integration and testing of software is difficult, and embedded software systems provide the additional challenges of limited manipulation and visibility of the system through the small number of inputs and outputs.
[November 27, 2003, 23:00]
Documentation Driven Agile Development For Systems Of Embedded Systems
White Papers This paper presents the framework of Documentation-Driven Agile Development (DDAD) methodology for high confidence systems of embedded systems. DDAD mainly includes two parts: a Documentation Management System (DMS) and a Process Measurement System...
[April 21, 2006, 0:00]
Towards Formal Support For UML-Based Development Of Embedded Systems
White Papers This paper describes ongoing work on the definition of a UML-based development methodology for the software of embedded systems. The aim is to improve current tools and methods by incorporating formal techniques.
[July 23, 2004, 0:00]
Coordination Of Safety-Critical Mobile Real-Time Embedded Systems
White Papers Safety-critical mobile applications running on resource-constrained embedded systems will play an increasingly important role in domains such as automotive systems, space, robotics and avionics. Such applications are composed of mobile autonomous...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Aspect-Oriented UML Modeling For Developing Embedded Systems Product Lines
White Papers In today's post-PC era, embedded systems are increasingly more software-driven, as more and more of the functionality is placed in software. Although the conventional software industry has been relatively successful, little progress has been...
[February 21, 2005, 23:00]
Applying Systems Engineering Principals To Embedded Systems
White Papers During embedded systems development, decisions must be made regarding which portions of the system will be implemented in software, hardware, firmware etc. By making use of the UML and its extension mechanisms, essential aspects of Systems...
[February 9, 2005, 23:00]
Enabling Wi-Fi Connectivity For Embedded Systems
White Papers Adding Wi-Fi or IEEE 802.11a/b/g functionality to embedded systems is gaining in popularity. Quite often however, Wi-Fi modules do not have the same native interface as the embedded processors used in these systems.
[February 14, 2006, 23:00]
Extending UML To Enable The Definition And Design Real-Time Embedded Systems
White Papers This paper discusses the suitability of UML, the popular OO modeling language, for defining and designing real-time and embedded systems. The complexity and size of the average real-time system is increasing rapidly.
[February 9, 2005, 23:00]
The Evolution Of JAVA Technology For Embedded Systems
White Papers Java platforms are not at fault, but rather, most current implementations are not viable for many embedded systems. In order to look at the current situation more objectively, “Java technology” is separated into two aspects specification, and...
[October 9, 2003, 0:00]
Virtualization Techniques For Embedded Systems
White Papers Like existing commodity computer systems, embedded systems are no more small, static, stable nor safe. To solve these problems, the authors propose to leverage virtualization techniques on embedded systems.
[April 1, 2007, 0:00]
Compression Of Compound Images And Video For Enabling Rich Media In Embedded Systems
White Papers It is possible to improve the features supported by devices with embedded systems by increasing the processor computing power, but this always results in higher costs, complexity, and power consumption.
[January 6, 2007, 23:00]
Using COM In Embedded Systems
White Papers Embedded systems. Embedded developers have remained mostly unaware of it except in passing. While desktops developers have had a chance to absorb this new approach to thinking about software. In this paper I’ll introduce you to COM programming with...
[August 27, 2003, 0:00]
Dynamic Memory Management For Software Product Family Architectures In Embedded Real-Time Systems
White Papers This paper presents a scenarios-based approach to analyze and evaluate dynamic memory management systems for embedded real-time systems in a software product family architecture. In the context of an embedded real-time system, several requirements...
[March 1, 2007, 23:00]
Networked Infomechanical Systems: A Mobile Embedded Networked Sensor Platform
White Papers Networked InfoMechanical Systems (NIMS) introduces a new actuation capability for embedded networked sensing. Discoveries in NIMS environmental investigations have raised requirements for new embedded platforms integrating many diverse sensors with...
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
The Method, The Tools And Rationales For Assessing Dynamic Memory Efficiency In Embedded Real-Time Systems In Practice
White Papers Real-time embedded systems add some more constraints to the design and the implementation of dynamic memory management systems if compared with the PC world. This paper presents a case study on evaluating dynamic memory management in embedded real...
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
Industrial Embedded Systems - INES
White Papers The company wanted to use TCP/IP as standard protocol, they wanted to improve remote access via a dial up connection or Internet Service provider, and migrate from desktop PC to an embedded computer with Linux OS.
[April 24, 2007, 0:00]
Production-Testing Of Embedded Systems With Aspects
White Papers A test harness plays an important role in the development of any embedded system. Although the harness can be excluded from final products, its architecture should support maintenance and reuse, especially in the context of testing product families.
[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
A New Approach For String Handling In Embedded Systems
White Papers Generating string tables are done in different ways for embedded software. Most of the time strings are kept inside specific source files and changing languages of the device needs conditional compilation.
[June 30, 2005, 0:00]
Memory Solutions For Embedded Telecom/Datacom Systems
White Papers Today s embedded memory system designers are striving to meet data-rich high bandwidth applications, far beyond conventional system design. Industry hype on advanced memory solutions to meet the needs of new, data-rich applications in the vast...
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
