MoSaRT framework: A collaborative tool for modeling and analyzing embedded real-time systems

Abstract

The increasing evolution of real-time and embedded systems needs methodologies and design tools in order to reduce design complexity. Moreover, the scheduling analysis is one of the aspects that integrate the development process to reduce development costs and to validate systems. Since model-driven engineering offers interesting solutions to the abovementioned challenges, it is widely used in various industrial and academic research projects. This paper presents an overview of a model-based framework called MoSaRT (Modeling oriented Scheduling analysis of Real-Time systems), which aims to help real-time designers to conceive, dimension and analyze real-time systems. The underlying idea behind this proposal is to fill the gap between the academic real-time scheduling theory community and industrial practices. In fact, research results have been exploited in industrial contexts only to a modest extent to date. The MoSaRT framework is also a software tool for technology transfer enabling researchers to promote their works (e.g. analysis models and scheduling tests), then to increase the applicability of the real-time scheduling analysis.