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Widespread use of embedded systems mandates the use of industrial production methods featuring model-based design and repositories of prefabricated software components. The main problem that has to be addressed in this context is to systematically develop a software architecture (framework) for embedded applications, taking into account the true nature of embedded systems, which are predominantly real-time control and monitoring systems. There are a great number of design issues and unresolved problems with existing architectures, which have to be carefully analyzed in order to develop a viable component-based design method for embedded applications. Such an analysis is presented in this paper, which focuses on a number of key issues: specification of system structure; specification of system behaviour; component scheduling and execution; program generation vs. system configuration. The analysis has been used to formulate the guidelines used to develop COMDES – a software framework for distributed embedded applications.
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Angelov, C., Sierszecki, K., Marian, N. (2005). Component-Based Design of Embedded Software: An Analysis of Design Issues. In: Guelfi, N., Reggio, G., Romanovsky, A. (eds) Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications. FIDJI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3409. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31869-9_1
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