CARAT: a toolkit for design and performance analysis of component-based embedded systems

Solid frameworks and toolkits for design and analysis of embedded systems are of high importance, since they enable early reasoning about critical properties of a system. This paper presents a software toolkit that supports the design and performance analysis of real-time component-based software architectures deployed on heterogeneous multiprocessor platforms. The tooling environment contains a set of integrated tools for (a) component storage and retrieval, (b) graphics-based design of software and hardware architectures, (c) performance analysis of the designed architectures and, (d) automated code generation. The cornerstone of the toolkit is a performance analysis framework that automates composition of the individual component models into a system executable model, allows simulation of the system model and gives design-time predictions of key performance properties like response time, data throughput, and usage of hardware resources. We illustrate the efficiency of this toolkit...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Egor R. V. Bondarev, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Peter H. N. de With
• Keywords: Component-based Software Architectures, DATE 2007, Hardware, Performance Analysis, Performance Analysis Framework