Research Of Cooperating Embedded System Development Platform Based On XML

Along with the development of Micro-Electronic technology recent years, Embedded system has enter into every corner of our lives, such as watch, telephone, mobile telephone and even electric cooker. It can be a small chip, or a big PC board, no matter what form it has now, it is being integrated stronger functions and being used in wider areas. In order to fit the development of embedded system, Embedded develop tools has evolved from a singularity system to an integrated system. But, the fact that most of current integrated system is used as stand-alone restrict the function of Embedded system. Along with the spring up of Internet, developing mode with distributing and cooperating characteristics will be the trend in the futures, which will issue a challenge to current developer of Embedded system.Open architecture software is the unfailing topic of software engineering which include several aspects such as the open characteristic of resource, function and the expansion characteristic of architecture. Since the naissance, it has come through four phases, the first is resource centered phase, the second is operation centered phase, the third is object centered phase, now it goes into a broker centered phase which has distributing and efficient communication characteristic and is a new resolve of cooperating network appliance. The application of broker model in distributing environment needs support of Agent technology.This paper has made a deep analysis and discussion of the architecture of Embedded system developing tools, which is base on the study of XML and architecture of Embedded system developing tools. And aim at those inherent defects of current stand-alone system, which are incapable of cooperating and incapable of sharing, the author present a new architecture of Embedded system tools using cooperating architecture idea. The new architecture that uses open architecture as basic mode, XML file as data exchange medium, realize all function in the open architecture, and appears a style of client/server form, which has cooperating character. It has overcome those defects of traditional tools, present a cooperating developing environment, and improve the efficiency of Embedded system development in some degree.The author has built an Embedded system kernel successfully in the distributing method, based on that open architecture tools in Linux.This paper mainly focuses on the theory foundation and realization of Embedded system developing tools with open and cooperating character. The first chapter make a brief introduction of the whole paper, the second chapter introduce the history, actuality and development uptrend of Embedded system tools; the third chapter introduces the concept, characteristic and appliance of open, distributing architecture; the forth chapter introduces the syntax and appliance of XML; in the fifth chapter, the author put forward an cooperating architecture of Embedded system developing tools based on XML; at last, in the sixth chapter, the analysis and design details of this architecture is described in detail under the environment which use Windows 2000 as client operation system, use Linux as server operation system.