Design Methods And Applications For Distributed Embedded Systems

by Kleinjohann, Bernd; Gao, Guang R.; Kopetz, Hermann; Kleinjohann, Lisa; Rettberg, Achim

• ISBN13: 9781402081484
• ISBN10: 1402081480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The ever decreasing price/performance ratio of microcontrollers makes it economically attractive to replace more and more conventional mechanical or electronic control systems within many products by embedded real-time computer systems. An embedded real-time computer system is always part of a well-specified larger system, which we call an intelligent product. Although most intelligent products start out as stand-alone units, many of them are required to interact with other systems at a later stage. At present, many industries are in the middle of this transition from stand-alone products to networked embedded systems. This transition requires reflection and architecting: the complexity of the evolving distributed artifact can only be controlled if careful planning and principled design methods replace the ad-hoc engineering of the first version of many standalone embedded products.Design Methods and Applications for Distributed Embedded Systems documents recent approaches and results presented at the IFIP TC10 Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES 2004), which was held in August 2004 as a co-located conference of the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The topics which have been chosen for this working conference are very timely: model-based design methods, design space exploration, design methodologies and user interfaces, networks and communication, scheduling and resource management, fault detection and fault tolerance, and verification and analysis. These topics are supplemented by several hardware and application oriented papers.

Table of Contents

MDA platform for complex embedded systems development	p. 1
On detecting deadlocks in large UML models	p. 11
Verification framework for UML-based design of embedded systems	p. 21
LTL's intutitive representations and its automaton translation	p. 31
Modeling and verification of hybrid systems based on equations	p. 43
Distribution of time interval between successive interrupt requests	p. 53
A membership agreement algorithm detecting and tolerating asymmetric timing faults	p. 63
Temporal bounds for TTA : validation	p. 73
An active replication scheme that tolerates failure in distributed embedded real-time systems	p. 83
Development of distributed automotive software : the DaVinci methodology	p. 93
Experiences from model based development of drive-by-wire control systems	p. 103
Hardware design and protocol specification for the control and communication within a mechatronic system	p. 113
A decentralized self-organized approach for wireless sensor networks	p. 123
A software architecture and supporting kernel for largely synchronously operating sensor networks	p. 133
Adaptive bus encoding schemes for power-efficient data transfer in DSM environments	p. 145
A novel approach for off-line multiprocesor scheduling in embedded hard real-time systems	p. 157
Schedulability analysis and design of real-time embedded systems with partitions	p. 167
Flexible resource management : a framework for self-optimizing real-time systems	p. 177
Automatic synthesis of SystemC-code from formal specifications	p. 187
Hardware synthesis of a parallel JPEG decoder from its functional specification	p. 197
A self-controlled and dynamically reconfigurable architecture	p. 207
Profiling specification PEARL designs	p. 217
A multiobjective tabu search algorithm for the design space exploration of embedded systems	p. 227
Design space exploration with automatic generation of IP-based embedded software	p. 237
A multi-level design pattern for embedded software	p. 247
A petri net based approach for the design of dynamically modifiable embedded systems	p. 257
Internet premium services for flexible format distributed services	p. 267
Evaluating high-level models for real-time embedded systems design	p. 277
A dataflow language (AVON) as an architecture description language (ADL)	p. 287
Engineering concurrent and reactive systems with distributed real-time abstract state machines	p. 297
The implications of real-time behavior in networks-on-chip architectures	p. 307
ME64 - a parallel hardware architecture for motion estimation implemented in FPGA	p. 317
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