UML, MDD, and Embedded Systems

According to a recent report published by market research firm Venture Development Corporation (VDC), more developers are expecting to adopt Model-Driven Development (MDD) approaches -- including UML -- over the next two years to cope with the complexity and an increase in the lines of software code per device in embedded software and systems.

However, in the report, entitled "Embedded System Design Automation and Simulation Tools", VDC says that increased adoption of software modeling tools has not translated into equivalent increases in commercial market revenue to the degree that VDC had previously anticipated. VDC suspects that a number of factors, including the availability of low-priced UML modeling tools, have impacted the growth of the commercial market for software-modeling tools.

VDC expects continued adoption of MDD tools, as the benefit of modeling complex systems helps developers to organize and manage complex software and system development. These tools currently see the most use in the early phases of the design process. However, as adoption increases and leading suppliers continue to advance their solutions to drive modeling environments to the center of the development process, VDC expects additional users to more readily acquire additional tool extensions with increasingly sophisticated capabilities.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 03:40 PM  Permalink