An Overview of Application Scenario Usage in Streaming-Oriented Embedded System Design

In the past years real-time embedded systems became more and more complex. From the user perspective, these systems have stringent requirements regarding size, performance and power consumption, and due to business competition, their time-to-market is a crucial factor. Therefore, much work has been done in developing design methodologies for embedded systems to cope with these tight requirements. In this report, we present a basic methodology based on the concept of application scenarios for real-time embedded systems design. We show the distinction between application scenarios and use-case scenarios. Moreover, we give a literature overview of application scenario usage in embedded system design for obtaining a faster implementation, an energy saving implementation, or a better estimation of the resources required by an application.

Keywords: Real-Time Embedded Systems, Application Scenarios

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