Need to read Abstract: Due to rapidly increasing system complexity, shortening time-to-market, and growing demand for hard real-time systems, formal methods are becoming indispensable in the synthesis of embedded systems, which must satisfy stringent temporal, memory, and environment constraints. There is a general lack of practical formal methods that can synthesize complex embedded real-time software (ERTS). In this work, a formal method based on Time Free-Choice Petri Nets (TFCPN) is proposed for ERTS synthesis. The synthesis method employs quasi-static data scheduling for satisfying limited embedded memory requirements and uses dynamic real-time scheduling for satisfying hard real-time constraints. Software code is then generated from a set of quasi-statically and dynamically scheduled TFCPNs. Finally, an application example is given to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed TFCPN-based formal method for ERTS synthesis.
@inproceedings{371729,
author = {Pao-Ann Hsiung},
title = {Formal synthesis and code generation of embedded real-time software},
booktitle = {CODES '01: Proceedings of the ninth international symposium on Hardware/software codesign},
year = {2001},
isbn = {1-58113-364-2},
pages = {208--213},
location = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/371636.371729},
publisher = {ACM Press},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}