Model-Based Engineering with AADL: An Introduction to the SAE Architecture Analysis & Design Language

Introduction

As embedded systems have become increasingly software intensive and dependent upon commercial computing hardware, system integration has emerged as a major engineering challenge in the development of modern application systems. Model-based engineering practices that include systematic analyses of system architecture models early and throughout the development lifecycle can provide substantially greater confidence that the integrated system will meet design goals.

Early in the lifecycle, model-based analysis takes the form of predictive analysis, for example addressing uncertainty through sensitivity analysis. As a system architecture is refined, the model includes finer granularity and analysis of that model provides more detailed ...