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Component-based version management for embedded computing system design

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Tien N. NguyenAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 685 - 692

https://doi.org/10.1145/1244002.1244157

Published: 11 March 2007 Publication History

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Nowadays, the development of modern computing devices involves a substantial and growing part of software development. A great challenge for engineers is to manage the evolution of a system with several components in the face of mounting complexity due to concurrent hardware and software development. The key limitations of existing version control tools used for a hardware software co-design process include their inadequacy in representing semantics of design models and inability to manage versions of both hardware designs and associated software components in a cohesive manner. Thus, it is difficult to track the logical interdependencies between the changes to hardware and software components in an embedded computing system over time.

This paper presents an application of a well-known software engineering approach to the management of embedded systems design artifacts. Our novel component-based version management mechanism is capable of capturing and versioning the underlying logical contents of components in system design models and their associated software artifacts in a cohesive manner. This paper also illustrates our approach in creating a versioning system, named EmVC, for a hardware software co-design process.

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SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

March 2007

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ISBN:1595934804

DOI:10.1145/1244002

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Yookun Cho
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
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Sung Y. Shin
South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
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The University of Suwon, Gyeongggi-do, Korea

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Schmitz DDeng WRose TJarke MNonn HSanguanpiyapan K(2009)Configuration Management for Realtime Simulation SoftwareProceedings of the 2009 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications10.1109/SEAA.2009.69(229-236)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SEAA.2009.69

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