Eleven percent of embedded designs are cancelled."
EMF's data suggest that technologies derived from the Unified Modeling Language (UML) -- such as simulation-modeling, rapid prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and automatic code generation -- "offer better design results with considerable savings to OEM's, embedded developers, and system integrators."
While UML has been available for some time, widespread acceptance in the embedded community has been lacking due, among other things, to incompatibilities among various commercial UML products. In an effort to address these issues and make UML more accessible to embedded developers, a number of vendors came together to develop the UML 2.0 standard.
The 26-page report is
available for download in PDF fomat from EMF's website.
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