Component-Based Development for Real-time Embe dded Devices: Current Obstacles and Next Steps Forward

As the embedded control systems became a part of an every day equipment, the importance of methods and tools for cost efficient development rises enormously. These new technologies are still typically missing important features making system engineering markedly more efficient - some of them (as system simulations or debugging on the code level) are well known from non-component development, other (as debugging on the meta-model level) are representing completely new approach. One of promising solution lies in the component-based engineering. This article presents the vision of future extensions of the SOFA-HI component framework and related tools needed to overcome this significant obstacle in using the component-based technologies for production development.