Embedded system design with maintenance consideration
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Meng, Xiaozhou; Thornberg, Benny; Lawal, Najeem
- Source
- 2011 Proceedings of the 34th International Convention MIPRO MIPRO, 2011 Proceedings of the 34th International Convention. :124-129 May, 2011
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Field programmable gate arrays
IP networks
Hardware
Maintenance engineering
Software
Microprocessors
Driver circuits
- Language
This paper deals with the problems of maintaining a long lifetime embedded system, including obsolescence, function change requirement or technology migration etc. The aim of the presented work is to analyze the maintainability of long lifetime embedded systems for different design technologies. FPGA platform solutions are proposed in order to ease the system maintenance. Different platform cases are evaluated by analyzing the essence of each case and the consequences of different risk scenarios during system maintenance. Finally, the conclusion is drawn that the FPGA platform with vendor and device independent soft IP is the best choice.