Abstract

The current object-oriented class-based approaches to hardware/software co-analysis/co-design of embedded systems are limited in their abilities to properly capture the structure of individual instances of hardware and software components and their interactions. This paper discusses a methodology to extend a structured objectoriented hardware/software co-design methodology based on the High Order Object-oriented Modeling Technique (HOOMT) to incorporate instance-based object and behavioral models. The instance-based structured object-oriented methodology will enable description of a system's structure based on individual instances of hardware and software components and specification of the interactions among them. In addition, lattices are introduced to specify the concurrent behavior of hardware/software components in a concurrent embedded system. These additions further enhance the method's capability of providing a precise set of specifications that can be understood easily by both hardware and software designers in co-analysis/codesign. The methodology has been applied to the specification of hardware and software of a simulated advanced power grid control system.

Meeting Name

30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06) (2006: Sep. 17-21, Chicago, IL)

Department(s)

Computer Science

Second Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sponsor(s)

Intelligent Systems Center
National Science Foundation (U.S.)

Keywords and Phrases

Concurrent Process; Hardware/Software Co-Analysis; Hardware/Software Co-Design; Instance-Based Co-Analysis/Co-Design; Integration; Structured Object-Oriented Method; Embedded computer systems; Multitasking (Computer science)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

0-7695-2655-1

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0730-3157

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Sep 2006

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