Efficient and Adapted Component-Based Strategies for Embedded Software Device Drivers Development

Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is now a mature architectural paradigm that has proved its value at design and development phases, easing software comprehension and reuse, among others. However, concepts introduced by CBSE have an impact on execution performance and reliability of hard-restrained embedded systems. In this paper we use a performance-oriented implementation of a generic component model and propose a series of strategies to be applied on embedded systems, and particularly device drivers design and development. These strategies take into account CBSE design features as well as concerns and requirements inherent to device drivers domain. Evaluation results show that by applying these strategies, benefits drawn from CBSE are compatible with embedded systems performance requirements.