Model-based self-monitoring embedded programs with temporal logic specifications

We propose a model-based framework for developing self-monitoring embedded programs with temporal logic specifications. In our framework the requirement specification of an embedded program is encoded in the temporal logic MEDL. We propose an algorithm that synthesizes a model-based monitor from a MEDL script. We also introduce a technique that instruments a system model to emit events defined in the model-based primitive event definition language mPEDL. The synthesized model-based monitor may be composed with the instrumented model to form a self-monitoring model, which can be simulated for design-level verification; the composed self-monitoring model can also be used to generate a self-monitoring embedded program, which can monitor its own execution on the target platform in addition to its normal functions. Our approach combines the rigidness of temporal logic specifications with the easy use of a toolkit M2IST that we developed to automate the process of building a self-monitoring embedded program from a system model and its requirement specification.