Development of SWF based virtual prototyping framework for simulating ubiquitous systems

Currently, ubiquitous systems, whose mission is to control peripheral hardware and to interact with peripheral environment, are widely used in various fields such as home appliance, medical device, vehicle, and so on. In developer's viewpoint, it is difficult to set up the hardware and operational environment required for the system during software development. Virtual prototyping approach can be used for simulating hardware and operational environment of embedded software. However, cost and effort required for developing virtual prototyping are very high. Furthermore, related supporting tools have some limitations such as detailed representation, dynamic performance, modifiability, and so on. In this paper, we propose an SWF based virtual prototyping framework for implementing virtual prototype in embedded systems. And our experiment conducted for showing the applicability of our approach in real world. Our approach also supports advanced simulation and multi-dimensional analysis during software development process for embedded systems.