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You can get your copy for Evaluation from: here

Featuring a completely rebuilt UI:

Key Features:

• fUML Preview
  • Visual simulation of Activity Behaviors
• Parallel Start of multiple Behaviors (State Machines, Activities)
  • Adding behaviors to simulation and parallel execution at any time
  • Asynchronous communication between behaviors via signals
• AMUSE own diagram-viewer
  • High-performance live-monitoring of multiple behaviors
  • Directly interaction with behaviors
• Trace Viewer
  • Detailed trace-log of simulation
  • Rich filter and sorting capabilities
• Improved Simulation Control UI
  • Rich UML-Debugging capabilities (e.g. simple access to class-attributes)
  • One-click simulation start
• Validation and Auto-Correction Rules
  • Over 20 validation rules
  • 10 Auto-correction rules

fUML Preview

AMUSE 2.0 is the first version of AMUSE that allows you to Execute Activity Diagrams just like previous versions of AMUSE did for state machines. Currently the most important elements of the fUML specification are implemented.

AMUSE activity simulation supports:

• Actions
  • with C# behavior code
  • for sending signal
• control nodes like
  • decision
  • merge
  • fork
  • join
  • initial node
  • activity final

Parallel Start of multiple State Machines and Activity Flows

AMUSE 2.0 allows you to see and execute many state machines at the same time, those state machines can collaborate via Signals. The sample below shows 2 machines – one sending signals to the other – depending on a random number generator. A simple way to test a state machine. Our new UI with AMUSE Diagram Viewer allows to see up to 8 state machines at the same time.

AMUSE own Diagram-Viewer

You can see the new AMUSE 2.0 diagram viewer already in the other screenshots on the page. We developed it for high-performance monitoring of state and activity behaviors ad of course it is fully integrated Enterprise Architect. You can interactively trigger transitions and toggle brakepoints directly on diagram. It can zoom and pan so you are in command of your diagram at any time.

Trace Viewer

The new Trace Viewer enables you to find out what was or is going on while you run your Behaviors via AMUSE. The viewer provides all the sort and filter capabilities, you may need.  The trace-log can be exported to Excel in order to analysis the data collected.

Improved Simulation Control UI

The AMUSE Simulation Control window was redesigned, key users of the previous versions helped us to get this right. You can easily monitor and change the class-attributes at runtime. You have overview of all triggers used in the state machine and can activate them at any time by one click.

Validation and auto Correction Rules

These Rules help you in the process of building executable state machines and activity flows. They detects the most common issues during modeling, if suitable some of the detected issues can be solved automatically if you wish to do so. This also helps to maintain consistent UML/SysML Models in your Organization.

At that place I’d like to say a big thank you to Walter van der Heiden who allowed me to reuse some slides from his impressive presentation I enjoyed some times on the development conferences .

Please find here a video that demonstrates our solution for the Keil environment and ARM RTOS

Couple weeks ago we presented our solution for embedded development at the embedded world Conference 2011 for the first time . Today I’m at the Electronics Fair Exhibition in the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center and present the solution in Asia market. The most of the local development companies need more time to realize the demand for Model Driven Design and Development (MDD) than the European companies, but there is mind change on the way, in particular in the embedded world. The embedded market is one of most competitive and the companies are under pressure to decrease time-to-market. The MDD one of the essential instruments for arriving that target and that what we present to our potential customers here.

How ever me and my colleagues from Sparx Systems Australia we created a new video that demonstrates the usage of the embedded tool kit including Enterpise Architect, AMUSE, Willert Tools and Keil IDE. I like it and would like to share it with you, please enjoy!

And here the same staff as flash video with higher quality:

UML Code Generation finally at affordable prices!

The specialists for embedded UML in Bückeburg (Willert software tools GmbH) and the Viennese Enterprise Architect experts (LieberLieber Software GmbH) have jointly developed a code generation solution based on Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems,LieberLieber AMUSE and RXF Willert. This solution is introduced at the embedded world in Nuremberg for the first time at 510 and 231 in Hall 10 booths 2011.

Basic Toolchain

•  Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems (Systems Engineering or Ultimate)

•  LieberLieber AM|USE – UML Simulation and footprint optimized C Code Generation

• Willert Deployer – integrates generated source code into  your embedded IDE Projects

•  Willert Runtime Framework – hardware abstraction layer with extremely small footprint

•  UML Target Debugger – enables you for monitoring of code execution on target without any code instrumentalization

•  Embedded IDE and RTOS of your choice

Prepared for MISRA. Documentation and validation on demand

Supported IDE’s / Compilers – Keil C166, Keil MDK ARM, IAR EWARM, IAR M16C, IAR M32C, Analog Devices Visual DSP++, GNU gcc, Tasking C166 V8.x, TI CodeComposer, IAR Microchip dsPIC/PIC24, Microchip MPLABC32, Altera NIOS II gcc, MS Visual Studio 2008

Supported RTOS – CMX-RTX, OO-RTX, RL-ARM, embOS, VDK, Linux, EUROS, DSP/BIOS, Windows

Further Platforms, IDE’s, Compilers on demand.

See: Testing and debugging your Enterprise Architect C# Add-In

I like that he tells about our free Enterprise Architect Launcher 

Nevertheless here at LieberLieber we use a different way of Debugging EA Add-In’s:

We start EA from the Debugger so it is easier to use than “attach to process” – and we can be sure the EA instance we use for debugging is in a consistent state when starting. To do so you configure the properties of the project like:

Nevertheless if you want a free IDE that can attach to a process I can recommend SharpDevelop!

Currently there is not a lot of content – but hey it’s a start.

you can have bespoke Add-Ins and Templates  for:

• Add-Ins to make your daily work faster
• Add-Ins to standardize Enterprise Architect usage in your organization
• Code-Generation Templates
• Model-Validation
• Add-Ins for Software-Testing and System Integration
• Special Reports
• UML-Profiles
• Integration with 3rd party tools/repositories, …
• MDG Technologies
• Statistics/Metrics
• Custom import/export
• Legacy tool visualizations

For inspiration you can check out “LieberLieber AMUSE” or our Codebeamer integration.

We are looking into making a tutorial on how to run  LieberLieber AMUSE with Crossover Office.

Besuchen Sie uns in Halle 10 Stand 10-510 vom 1-3.03.2011 – wir teilen uns diesen Stand mit SparxSystems.
LieberLieber AMUSE wird allerdings auch auf anderen Ständen zu sehen sein – dazu mehr “live” aus Nürnberg.

As this article points to an rather old Version of WiX  and SharpDevelop – I had to try with the latest version of SharpDevelop – and what I see makes me happy – we will test it in the real world and report our experience soon.

The full details can be read on the webpage of sparxsystems.jp. Or if you need a transALTERED version via google translate go to here.

Why to use state-machines at all?

UML supports state charts for really long time, but only a small part of UML community uses state-machines on a regular basis.
My experience confirms that – it isn’t easy to start using them. The question is – why?

In my opinion, the reason is – the way how the people do thinking – in functions and activities (actually straight forward ). Therefore most of us likes sequence and activity charts better.
Everybody begins programming by writing functions – first, you have an idea of desired result in your mind and next, to get that result – you program a… function. Other way around – nobody will start thinking about classes, instances, states, interaction between objects, etc. if you just want e.g. to parse some strings.

But one day you want to (or you have to ) develop code in a more structured way. At that point machines can help
- Why? Because they get the object oriented methodology to the heart of the matter – it’s all about objects and their states. But as already mentioned above, at the beginning, state-machines seem to be non-trivial
– So what to do?

How to get the state-machine right?

Wouldn’t be great if an UML tool could interact with you and give you feedback while modeling to show if you are still on the right track?
– It’s exactly what AMUSE does. It extends Enterprise Architect to an interactive UML tool.

My first lesson learned with AMUSE

1. First, install the tool – very easy
2. Cause I developed state machines before AMUSE, the next step was also easy going – created a model, a view, a package, added an state diagram and drew a trivial state chart
3. Next, I wanted of course to know if it’s executable – the first thing I had to learn was to add every state-machine into simulation window manually. Actually it’s annoying, hope we change that in the next version
4. But already at the fourth step I learned a really important thing – every state machine belongs to a class. First, I thought it is also nonsense, but then I’ve got it

Basically it is easy and exactly the right way to think:

- So, you want a state chart? First question you have to answer – state of what? And the answer is – state of class you have to design.

Answering that question is the first step in the right direction of good design!

Bottom line

To cut a long story short:

• State machines are cool, because they guide you to a good design
• AMUSE is cool, because it guides you to a good state machine
  - e.g. it creates automatically a class and a state machine that belongs to a state diagram if you forgot

meanwhile i came to the conclusion:
- Usage of state machines is probably most suitable way to enter into object oriented design, but they are also excellent helpers for experts.

Next time more …

Anhand einer exemplarisch einfachen WPF Login-Maske zeigt Andreas Aschauer (Trainer bei ppedv GmH) was man alles mit AMUSE machen kann.

Vom Anlegen einer StateMachine bis zum Erstellen eines Workflows, auch die kleinen aber feinen Features wie, externer Refernezen hinzufügen, Breakpoints oder in “Realtime” Werte ändern, werden leicht verständlich beschrieben.

If you are around and want to talk about AMUSE feel free to contact me beforehand to arrange meetings as I will be onsite.