Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems

1 Formalisms for Embedded System Design.- IP-Centric Methodology and Specification Language.- Multilanguage Design.- 2 Synthesis from Synchronous/Asynchronous Specification.- From Synchronous Specifications to Asynchronous Distributed Implementations.- Using Extended Predicate/Transition-Nets for the Specification, Analysis and Synthesis of Embedded Real-Time Systems.- From MSCS to Statecharts.- Software Synthesis from Statechart Models for Real Time Systems.- 3 Partitioning and Load-Balancing.- Combining Static Partitioning with Dynamic Distribution of Threads.- Distributed HIL-Simulation for the Design of Decentralised Control Structures.- Distributed HIL-Simulation of Mechatronic Systems Applied to an Agriculture Machine.- Agent-Based Load Balancing for Mobile Robot Applications.- 4 Verification and Validation.- Comparing Model Checking and Term Rewriting for the Verification of an Embedded System.- Microscopic Modeling of Support System for In-Vehicle Embedded Systems.- Extended SDL-based Tools for Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors.- Block Diagram Based Real-Time Simulation on a Network of Alpha Processors and C40 DSPs.- 5 Design Environments.- The DASE Tool: An Environment for the Development of Real-Time Applications.- Paradise: Design Environment for Parallel & Distributed, Embedded Real-Time Systems.- MCI - Multilanguage Distributed Co-Simulation Tool.- 6 Object Oriented Approaches.- Rapid Prototyping of Distributed Mechatronic Applications.- An 00 Based Methodology for Real-Time HW/SW Systems Modeling.- Modeling Distributed State as an Abstract Object.- Design Rationale of the PURE Object-Oriented Embedded Operating System.