Embedded System Design with Ada as the System Design Language,

Abstract

Recent research in the software engineering field has produced a number of techniques or rationals for structuring the understanding of systems. Many of these techniques are applicable to the design of embedded computer systems and produce designs whose structures are easily expressible in the Ada language. The Ada language has a structure which allows the design of systems to be expressed independently of its implementation and thus can be a good system design language for use with these techniques. This paper describes the software design problem in the development of embedded computer systems and shows how the Ada language can be used as a system design language as well as a system implementation language to alleviate these problems. The essential point of this paper is that using Ada as a system design language encourages the designer to use the recently developed techniques and theory to develop better structures for their systems and then implement the systems in the same language thus preserving that structure in the product. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA144232

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  • T. J. Wheeler

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  • Abstracts
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
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  • Computers
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  • Embedded Systems
  • Engineering
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  • Parallel Computing
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