High-Level Design Space Exploration of Embedded Systems Using the Model-Driven Engineering and Aspect-Oriented Design Approaches

Abstract

Modern embedded systems have increased their functionality by using a large amount and diversity of hardware and software components. Realizing the expected system functionality is a complex task. Such complexity must be managed in order to decrease time-to-market and increase system quality. This chapter presents a method for high-level design space exploration (DSE) of embedded systems that uses model-driven engineering (MDE) and aspect-oriented design (AOD) approaches. The modelling style and the abstraction level open new design automation and optimization opportunities, thus improving the overall results. Furthermore, the proposed method achieves better reusability, complexity management, and design automation by exploiting both MDE and AOD approaches. Preliminary results regarding the use of the proposed method are presented.