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2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Contract-Based Coordination of Hardware Components for the Development of Embedded Software
verfasst von : Tayeb Bouhadiba, Florence Maraninchi
Erschienen in: Coordination Models and Languages
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Embedded software is intrinsically concurrent, because an embedded system has several computing units. The way the software pieces communicate and synchronize depends on the hardware architecture. If the architecture is regular and fixed, there often exists a
programming model
that allows software developers to use it. If the architecture is ad hoc, heterogeneous, or changing, such a programming model does not exist, and the software developer has to be provided with a sufficient view of the hardware behavior. We propose a notion of
contract
associated with a component-based description framework, to help defining such views. The contracts are used to describe and simulate the potentially complex behaviors of the hardware execution platform, but only the situations the embedded software should be aware of. In some sense, the “semantics” of concurrency between the software pieces is given by the structure of the hardware platform, the interface it exposes to the software, and its contract behavior.