Object-oriented Embedded Integrated Development Platform For Research And Design

Embedded products are widely used in production and people's lives, most of computer chips produced in the world have been applied to embedded systems. Not only more and more systems can be designed by embedded computer equipments, but also the scope and complexity of the systems have been growing geometrically.Hardware devices have had a high degree of integration , the usual embedded processors have been integrated with many common functional interfaces. Developers can build a hardware platform quickly by slecting suitable peripheral resources based on processor performance. The software design takes much more time gradually in the whole embedded system development, it still remains at a low-level efficiency. Due to lack of powerful tools, porting and modifying a variety of complicated softwares spends so much time that it has become the bottleneck of the whole development. This thesis presents a method of using object-oriented thought to analyze embedded development and to clarify the relationship of all aspects of the process. The purpose is that developers can rapidly build a suitable software platform and carry out application design based on a combination of hardware resources, they can finish many important works under a unified integrated platform. There are several innovation points in this thesis as the following: 1. Set up a serial analysis and design models for the process of embedded system development by using object-oriented method; 2. Finish the works of configing and porting linux embedded sofrwares on the windows host according to adapt the Cygwin environment; 3.A pritical development platform software is implemented finally based on the object models and Cygwin enviroment.There are five parts int this thesis. The first part introduces the concept of embedded development, the current problems, the background and the significance of the research; The second part shows an overview of object-oriented methodology, the introduction of object-oriented modeling tools; The third describes the system analysis and design of the platform, and the models are built; The fourth part designs the platform with using the object-oriented language C # on VS2005 development environment ; The five part gives an application example, including porting software resources and designing some GUI programs for the embedded instrument based on human simulated intelligent control. At last , the research content is summarized and the development of the integrated development platform is forecasted.