Title :
On Formal Modeling of TOPPERS Embedded Software
Author :
Kawabe, Yoshinobu ; Ito, Nobuhiro ; Ishii, Naohiro
Author_Institution :
Aichi Inst. of Technol., Toyota, Japan
Abstract :
Today embedded software is widely used. As the complexity of embedded systems grows, the number of tasks performed by embedded software is increasing. These tasks must communicate with each other to achieve synchronization. And therefore, the growing complexity of communications is making it increasingly difficult to program and debug these tasks. To confirm the correctness of embedded software, this paper introduces a formal specification language for embedded systems that can deal with their concurrent nature. After formalizing the APIs of an embedded real-time operating system, we demonstrate how to describe and verify embedded software formally.
Keywords :
Concurrent computing; Control systems; Embedded software; Embedded system; Formal languages; Formal specifications; Multitasking; Operating systems; Real time systems; Software engineering; TOPPERS real-time operating system; distributed systems; embedded software; formal methods; verification;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), 2010 Eighth ACIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC, Canada
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4075-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7337-3
DOI :
10.1109/SERA.2010.22