Design Environment for Parallel & Distributed, Embedded Real-Time Systems

1 IntroductionToday’s embedded systems (ES) are characterized by more and more parallelism,distribution over different locations and hard real-time (RT) requirements.Consequently, the modern, structured design process has to deal with heterogeneousrequirements and restrictions. Especially the integration of HW-design tasks with SW-design tasks and operating system functionality with respect to RT requirements is amain challenge. The integration leads to systems with enormous overall complexitybecause the complexity of each design partition itself has been doubled nearly every