MDA approach in designing real-time embedded systems

Real-time embedded systems require efficient and maintainable source code. Most real-time systems are written in C programming language, which satisfies these needs. Though efficient, developing real-time systems from scratch by using only C has serious impact on the productivity. To increase the productivity, the level of abstraction must be raised. This paper shows how real-time embedded systems can be developed by using models. Models are designed and validated inside the Typhoon HIL's1 Schematic Editor by using predefined components from the library. Thus created models are used as the specification for the process of code generation.