Using C language extensions for developing embedded software: A case study

M Völter; Arie Van Deursen; Bernd Kolb; Stephan Eberle

doi:10.1145/2814270.2814276

Using C language extensions for developing embedded software: A case study

M Völter, Arie Van Deursen, Bernd Kolb, Stephan Eberle

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Abstract

We report on an industrial case study on developing the embedded software for a smart meter using the C programming language and domain-specific extensions of C such as components, physical units, state machines, registers and interrupts. We find that the extensions help significantly with managing the complexity of the software. They improve testability mainly by supporting hardware-independent testing, as illustrated by low integration efforts. The extensions also do not incur significant overhead regarding memory consumption and performance. Our case study relies on mbeddr, an extensible version of C. mbeddr, in turn, builds on the MPS language workbench which supports modular extension of languages and IDEs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OOPSLA 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	655-674
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450336895
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2814270.2814276
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2015 - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 25 Oct 2015 → 30 Oct 2015

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Conference	2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	25/10/15 → 30/10/15

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Case Study
Domain-Specific Language
Embedded Software
Language Engineering
Language Extension

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Völter, M., Van Deursen, A., Kolb, B., & Eberle, S. (2015). Using C language extensions for developing embedded software: A case study. In OOPSLA 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (pp. 655-674). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2814270.2814276

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Using C language extensions for developing embedded software: A case study. / Völter, M; Van Deursen, Arie; Kolb, Bernd et al.
OOPSLA 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 655-674.

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