Supporting Hardware-Related Software Development with Integration of Development Tools

Development of embedded systems is challenging and for addressing these issues a multitude of tools have been created. This multitude of tools needs to be used seamlessly during development, but usually the tools are disconnected making their use laborious as the consistency of data in the tools have to be managed manually. Tool integration helps in improving the quality and effectiveness of the software development by integrating the various tools used. In this paper we presented how some of the hardware-related software development challenges can be solved by means of improved tool support and their interoperability. This is done via extensions to an existing tool integration framework, which extensibility is then also evaluated.