eMuCo consortium was present at 14th System Design Languages Forum in Bochum hosted by Ruhr-University of Bochum in collaboration with IBM Rational

In an effort to have an impact on the development of world standards, eMuCo researchers and industry partners conducted a tutorial, presented two papers and exhibited the eMuCo results to bring Model-Driven Development (MDD) approach for Multi-Core platforms to the SDL community.

Multi-core platforms emerge as the solution for many segments of the embedded market concerning higher computational capacity at lower power consumption as it is addressed by eMuCo. Nevertheless, application developers experience a paradigm shift: parallel programming, which can be more efficient by using the appropriate semantic and model-driven development. The eMuCo partner, IBM Rational, presented a tutorial on the new challenges faced by the application developers and showed how model-driven development is used in eMuCo to face such challenges. Additionally, two papers as case of studies were presented: "Modeling LTE Protocol for Mobile Terminals Using a Formal Description Technique" and "SDL/Virtual Prototype Co-design for Rapid Architectural Exploration of a Mobile Phone Platform", which showed the advantages of using SDL and MMD in the new era of the multi-core embedded systems.

Both papers can be downloaded here

This event was a great opportunity to exchange ideas with members of research and the industrial community related to system design languages. "Model-level representation of multi-core architectures and system behaviour will significantly advance the currently prevailing best practices in Model Driven Development. Modelling conventions defined in the eMuCo project will be standardized as multi-core profile for Unified Modelling Language, UML", said Irv Badr, senior market manager at IBM Rational Software and responsible of the software development environment work package in the FP7 project "eMuCo".