Examining Important Corner Cases: Verification of Interacting Architectural Components in System Designs

Abstract

In embedded system design, design errors are often introduced at the interfaces between multiple architectural components. Systematic design methodology for verifying the interaction between the components is imperative for improving the design productivity. In practice, different kinds of interactions need to be examined, in terms of levels of abstraction and in terms of types of architectural components. In all the cases, the key aspect is to stress the interacting components in such a way that important corner cases can be effectively examined, but the models to be used and the issues to be addressed vary, depending upon the kinds of interactions to be verified. In this talk, we observe typical types of interactions one needs to examine in embedded system designs, and present issues and requirements that one needs to account for. We then show some approaches that can be used for the interaction verification, and discuss how the stated requirements are addressed with those approaches.