A methodology for architecture-oriented rapid prototyping

Abstract

In this paper a methodology for architecture oriented Rapid Prototyping is presented. In the ver3, early development phases concept-oriented Rapid Prototyping is used to clarifi the requirements between the customer and the contractor. In the second, more complex phase of Rapid Prototyping, the architecture of the target system is used. So this kind of Rapid Prototyping is called "architectureoriented Rapid Prototyping ". Most Electronic Control Units (ECU) use niicrocontrollerswith plenty of on-chip peripherals, sometimes applicationspecific microcontrollers with non-standard peripherals are used. But then, all these peripheral components must be present in the Rapid Prototyping system. To obtain this we developed an interface module with a FPGA f o r the peripheral parts of microcontroller based designs as well as a prototyping ECU which can be programmed with CASE-tools.

Requirements-document-based prototyping of CARA software

“…Prototyping, as an economic way to build scale models and prototype versions of most systems, has proven an efficient and effective methodology for evaluation of proposed systems when acceptance by the customer or feasibility of development is in doubt [5,12,18,27]. Computeraided prototyping can build a scaled-down version of the software system and ensure that the requirements are satisfied before extensive effort is put into detailed implementation [9,10,14,28].…”