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Design-Time Management of Run-Time Data in Industrial Embedded Real-Time Systems Development

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Conference/Workshop Paper

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Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA08), IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Hamburg, Germany

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ISBN:978-1-4244-1505-2

DOI:

10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638566


Abstract

Efficient design-time management and documentation of run-time data elements are of paramount importance when developing and maintaining modern real-time systems. In this paper, we present the results of an industrial case-study in which we have studied the state of practice in data management and documentation. Representatives from five companies within various business segments have been interviewed and our results show that various aspects of current data management and documentation are problematic and not yet mature. Results show that companies today have a fairly good management of distributed signals, while internal ECU signals and states are, in many cases, not managed at all. This lack of internal data management results in costly development and maintenance and is often entirely dependent of the know-how of single individual experts. Furthermore, it has, in several cases, resulted in unused and excessive data in the systems due to the fact that whether or not a data is used is unknown.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Hjertstrom1247,
author = {Andreas Hjertstr{\"o}m and Dag Nystr{\"o}m and Mikael Sj{\"o}din and Rikard Land},
title = {Design-Time Management of Run-Time Data in Industrial Embedded Real-Time Systems Development},
pages = {1285--1293},
month = {September},
year = {2008},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA08), IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Hamburg, Germany},
publisher = {ISBN:978-1-4244-1505-2},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/1247-}
}