Pattern-Driven Support for Designing Component-Based Architectural Models

The development of embedded systems often requires the use of various models such as requirements specification, architectural (component-based), and deployment models, across different phases. However, there exists little design support for obtaining suitable component-based designs that satisfy specified requirements and timing constraints. In order to provide guided support for the design process of embedded systems, we introduce several component templates, referred as patterns, which we also formally verify against relevant properties. To illustrate the usefulness of the approach, we have applied the proposed patterns to obtain a component-based design of a temperature control system.