Technology and design tools for portable software development for embedded systems

Abstract

Nowadays embedded systems are used in broad range of domains such as avionics, space industry, automotive, mobile devices, domestic appliances and so on. There is enormous number of tasks that should be solved using embedded systems. There are many tools and approaches that allow developing of software for domain area experts, but mainly for general purpose computing systems. In this article we propose the complex technology and tools that allows involving domain experts in software development for embedded systems. The proposed technology has various aspects and abilities that can be used to build verifiable and portable software for a wide range of embedded platforms.

Domain-Specific Programming Environment for Heterogeneous Multicore Embedded Systems

“…The successful existing approaches prove expediency of using visual programming for designing a high-level algorithmic description of a computation task. It has cognitive advantages for developer, such as clear view of development process, traceability of the dependency graph and the calculations management structure, natural parallelism and potential pipelining (Sedov, B., Syschikov, A., & Ivanova, V., 2011). Despite of constant advancing of high-level languages, programming usability issues and work speed issues remain rather relevant today.…”

“…The VPL, VPL-based DSL and VIPE environment is a first (front-end) part of the complex embedded software design technology for the whole program lifecycle support (Sedov, B., Syschikov, A., & Ivanova, V., 2014). The remaining complex parts are out of the topic for this paper, so we introduce them briefly to extend the understanding of what will be next to results of the presented technology application.…”