A Device Driver Engine Based on Components for the Embedded Prototyping System

With an influence of digital convergence and a fusion of information technology and existing industries, a lot of methodologies and development environments for embedded system development are being created toward reducing the time-cost required for development of embedded systems. The existing IP(integrated embedded prototyping) method has advantage which can satisfy the requirement of customer and time-to-market better than virtual prototyping or physical prototyping. However, the integrated prototyping has difficult problem of not being able to use the flexible implementation or testing environments. In this paper, DDEPS (device driver engine for prototyping system) which has many kinds of customized device drivers for the physical prototyping board connected with the virtual prototyping development tools is proposed to solve the problem. DDEPS was compared with IP method and showed the better performance through the experimental result.