VERTAF/Multi-Core: A SysML-Based Application Framework for Multi-Core Embedded Software Development

Multi-core processors are becoming prevalent rapidly in personal computing and embedded systems.Nevertheless,the programming environment for multi-core processor-based systems is still quite immature and lacks efficient tools.In this work,we present a new VERTAF/Multi-Core framework and show how software code can be automatically generated from SysML models of multi-core embedded systems.We illustrate how model-driven design based on SysML can be seamlessly integrated with Intel’s threading building blocks (TBB) and the quantum framework (QF) middleware.We use a digital video recording system to illustrate the benefits of the framework.Our experiments show how SysML/QF/TBB help in making multi-core embedded system programming model-driven,easy,and efficient.