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All you need is Enterprise Architect Ultimate from Sparx Systems – AMUSE from LieberLieber and the UML Tools from Willert.

It enables production code generation in ‘C’ for embedded real-time projects on a variety of target environments. Trial for ARM/CortexM3 is available for download.

Start Evaluation today

Check out the Getting Started Document! or download the evaluation software. (370MB)

More information can be found on the Willert Website.

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.

I will describe it based on a Windows Mobile 6 and “Sending a Message” example.

To use this service it is necessary to build a Compact Framework compatible WinForm application.

Ad the class file (not the designer file) in EA and draw the state machine.

In this example we use a Trigger to change the state between „FillOutMessage“ state and „CheckContent“ state.

In „CheckContent“ state the “content” attribute will be checked. If the “content” attribute is not set, the “contentError” attribute will be set to true, otherwise false.

The guard checks if the “content” attribute is empty or not. If it is not empty, the “showErrorMsg” operation in the state “ShowError”will be executed. After that the state „FillOutMessage“ will be activated and waits until the Trigger will be fired again.

If the “contentError” attribute is set to false, the state „SendContent“ will be activated and after that the StateMachine will be finished.

This is the mobile application i used for this example:

The trigger “ClickSend” can be fired with the button on the mobile device.

The “content” attribute can be set with the „set content“ button on the mobile device. The “content” attribute will get the value from the TextBox.

Start the Workflow in EA

The server component of the http communication will be started. A TCP Listener will be started and listens on a port. The simulation will be linked with the server communication component.

The Form, which includes the state machine and the client communication, will be compiled for Compact Framework, deployed and remotely started on the mobile device with the information on which http adress the client have to send the HTTP requests (local IP where the Simulation is running + port).

Back to the Example – here are the first lines of the Simulation Output

1. Activate – StateMachine
2. Activate – InitForm
3. Entry – StateMachine/InitForm
4. Do – StateMachine/InitForm
5. Exit – StateMachine/InitForm
6. DeActivate – InitForm
7. Effect – StateMachine/InitForm_to_StateMachine/FillOutMessage
8. Effect – StateMachine/InitForm_to_StateMachine/FillOutMessage
9. Activate – FillOutMessage
10. Entry – StateMachine/FillOutMessage
11. NextStepPerformed – StateMachine/InitForm
12. Do – StateMachine/FillOutMessage
13. Do – StateMachine/FillOutMessage
14. Exit – StateMachine/FillOutMessage
15. DeActivate – FillOutMessage
16. Effect – StateMachine/FillOutMessage_to_StateMachine/CheckContent
17. Effect – StateMachine/FillOutMessage_to_StateMachine/CheckContent
18. Activate – CheckContent

The simulation will be set to activate when the „InitializeStateMachine“ command from the Simulation is send to the client, processed on the client, the state machine in the client is set to active and the change is fired to the server. The client also processes the InitForm, the Entry, Do, Exit, DeActivate state and executes the transition. The client notiefies the server about each change via HTTP requests.

When the state machine is active the simulation sends NextStep commands which will be fetched from the client via the polling. After a transition has been executed in the state machine the NextStep performed command will be notified to the simulation. So the simulation knows that the next NextStep command can be executed. And so on…

Here you can see a demonstration of the new functionallity:

Play Video

Currently implemented new Features:

• smaller and faster Setup
• Single Step Simulation
• Sub and extended Diagrams will be opened on simulation
• Simulation stops if user switches Diagram
• improved external Reference feature (easier for .net implementations)
• Possibility to update Referenced (easier for .net implementations)
• Testcases can  be defined via contraints and are taken into account during simulation
• AMUSE Addin Window in Enterprise Architect 8.0 is now dockable
• Toolbar gives for better usability than the previous context menus

Play Video

It can also be downloaded.

We are still working on other new Features like the possibility to simulate Activity Diagrams – and a HTTP Bridge to connect Embedded Hardware….

Other than that we are working on a showcase for Windows CE and Lego Mindstorms….

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/developer/tv/default.aspx?vid=70

Anschauen……

Es gibt jetzt folgende Produkte von MS:

• Windows Embedded Enterprise – XP oder Vista Standard mit Embedded Lizenz
• Windows Embedded Standard – Nachfolger von XP Embedded – basierend auf XP mit SP3 und IE7
• Windows Embedded Compact. – ein neuer Name für CE 6.0

… ich muss hier korrigieren: Windows Embedded Standard 2009 basiert nicht auf Vista, sondern weiterhin auf XP. Es wird keine Embedded-Version von Vista geben. Die nächste Windows Embedded Standard-Version “Quebec” wird auf den Kernel von Windows 7 setzen.

Auf Frank’s Blog habe ich gerade etwas Interessantes gelesen, es gibt einen Nachfolger für XP Embedded der auf Vista basiert. Allerding bleibt Windows XP für Embeded Systeme weiterhin erhältlich. Die Details findet man in einem zweiten Artikel in Frank’s Blog zum nachlesen.

Ich finde es gut das das “lightweight” Windows für spezielle Anforderungen/Hardware verfügbar bleibt.