Towards Automatic Synthesis of Hardware-Specific Code in Component-Based Embedded Systems

Abstract

Most component models currently in use do not try to provide extensive support for dealing with hardware devices like sensors and actuator. Lack of such support means that software components and subsystems often include device- and platform-specific code, limiting our ability to reuse them and forcing us to deal with specifics of underlying hardware in high-level software models. In this paper we propose a solution that would enable automatic generation of device-specific code. We remove device- and platform-specific code outside of software components and specifying it as reusable units. Based on a system model we then generate glue-code that binds this reusable units of code to each other and to the software components, resulting in a system-specific solution.