Embedded Systems Design - June 2008 - (Page 37) feature Whether your development team is model-centric or code-centric, here’s a product that combines both modes of working into one. MDD and IDEs: making the twainmeet in embedded systems design BY PAUL URBAN mbedded system developers are stuck between the rock and the hard place, faced as they are with increasingly complex systems, more lines of code, more powerful processors, and the need to generate code that accurately reflects the real-time and deterministic requirements of applications such as automotive and industrial control. On the one hand, developers need to use high-level Model Driven Development (MDD) tools, such as UML, to accurately capture the behavior and characteristics of the design environment inside, say, an automobile, in which multiple processors may be linked together to enable all elements in that environment to communicate and, when necessary, work together. On the other hand, developers must also work at the code level, usually within an integrated development environment (IDE) to generate, debug, analyze, and test the code for each element in the system. However, very often the twain do not meet. And when they do, the linkage between the two has been problematic. The separate standalone MDD environments and IDEs within which they’ve worked have forced embedded system developers to work in either one or the other with no substantive interaction between the two “worlds.” In cases where the developer wants to work with models, if the models don’t generate code that includes behavior, he faces the difficult E www.embedded.com | embedded systems design | JUNE 2008 37 http://www.embedded.com
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