UML for Embedded Systems

Abstract

• This course tackles the development of an embedded system, from its requirements defined by a client until its implementation.
• This development includes a requirement analysis phase, a system design phase, a simulation phase before its implementation. UML (Unified Modeling Language) is gaining a wide importance and acceptance in the industry as a graphical language for supporting development cycles.
• Thus, this course studies the use of UML for analysis and design of real-time embedded systems. More specifically, it focuses on how to model and then validate constraints specific to those systems, and more particularly real-time constraints such as deadlines.

Description

• Key points about modeling
• Fundamentals on modeling: what is modeling, why use modeling, and how.
• System analysis with UML 2.0
• Presentation of use case diagrams and sequence diagrams with temporal extensions.
• System design with UML 2.0
• Introduction to class diagrams, composite structure diagrams and state machines diagrams, in the context of real-time systems. Then, presentation of simulation and automatic code generation techniques related to those diagrams.
• Analysis, design and simulation phases are experimented with a UML toolkit over an industrial case study.