1. A Technique of Building Custom Development
Environment for
Embedded Software Development
Jeong-Si Kim

2. 2
Background
 Embedded S/W
 Rapid development challenge
Increasing diversity and demand of embedded system
 Effective development tools are important solutions
 Embedded S/W Development Tool
 Development is expensive and hard than desktop S/W development
tool
Various level of S/W such as booting S/W, BSP, OS and application
Various OS and H/W
Complicated cross development environment

3. 3
Background
 Eclipse Based Embedded S/W Development Tool
 Eclipse platform is good to develop embedded S/W development tool
Flexible extensibility based on plug-in mechanism
Rich IDE and tool framework resources
 Tool examples
Noncommercial: DSDP/Eclipse, Esto/ETRI etc.
Commercial: Workbench/WindRiver, DevRocket/Montavista etc.

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Motive
 Low Use of Embedded S/W Development Tools
 High cost
Changing H/W and OS for embedded system requires new tools
Caused by the nature of embedded system and difficult to avoid
 Complexity of applying
Hard to select and associate tools fit to a software development for
an embedded system
Supporting the convenience of tools is important as much as the
capability

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Overview
 Goals
 What
Improving the convenience of embedded software development tools based
on Eclipse
 How
Providing Target Custom Development Environment to enable embedded
software developers to use intuitively tools suitable for the
development purposes

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Overview
 Target Custom Development Environment
Custom Env. ACustom Env. A Custom Env, BCustom Env, B Custom Env. CCustom Env. C
Eclipse Platform
Tool A Too B Tool C
…
The Proposed TechniqueThe Proposed Technique
…
Tool D
Target Types
…
Development Types
S/W
A
S/W
A
S/W
B
S/W
B
S/W
C
S/W
C
…

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Eclipse 3.6Eclipse 3.6
Manages integration of tools taken part in a custom
development environment
Provides sharing method of target specification
information among tools
Manages integration of tools taken part in a custom
development environment
Provides sharing method of target specification
information among tools
Technique Structure
Supports defining type of a custom development
environment
Provides a customized GUI suitable for a custom
development environment
Supports defining type of a custom development
environment
Provides a customized GUI suitable for a custom
development environment
Tool IntegratorTool Integrator
Custom Development
Environment
Manager
Custom Development
Environment
Manager

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Tool IntegratorTool Integrator
Workflow of Using the Technique
Custom Development Environment ManagerCustom Development Environment Manager
Integrate Dev.
Tools based on
Eclipse Plug-ins
Integrate Dev.
Tools based on
Eclipse Plug-ins
Define Custom
Development Type
Define Custom
Development Type
Create
Integrated Project
Create
Integrated Project
Develop Under the
Custom
Development
Environment
Develop Under the
Custom
Development
Environment

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Integrate Tools

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Define Custom Development Type
 Select tools and associate the tools as a development type

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Create Integrated Project

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Create Integrated Project

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Custom Development Environment

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Conclusions
 The Proposed Technique
 Improves the convenience of using embedded software development
tools based on Eclipse Plug-ins
 Supports the reconstructing of development environment according
to the development characteristic
 Allows embedded software developer to use development tools with
easy and efficient
 More Information
 www.seed-farm.org