Simulation environment tool debuts at Embedded World

30th January 2015

Argosim

Mick Elliott

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Argosim will unveil STIMULUS, a modeling and simulation environment to edit, debug, and test requirements, at Embedded World 2015 in Nuremberg (Feb. 24-26) and it will host a technical presentation and demos that exhibit how early validation of requirements can be achieved. The demonstration will use STIMULUS to validate the take-off procedure of an intelligent drone, which is able to autonomously track and film moving people equipped with a mobile phone.

To show how STIMULUS makes requirements right the first time, Argosim will offer a snapshot of the whole development process—from early modelling and simulation of safety requirements to the automatic generation of test vectors during software-in-the-loop validation of the mobile controller.

Visiting engineers will see mobile requirements modelled alongside drone requirements using predefined sentence templates. The simulation feature will generate execution traces that satisfy requirements, which can be analysed to find faulty requirements.

“Manual specifications reviews that most customers use today result in faulty requirements that generate costly process iterations as specifications need to be redefined, code rewritten and then re-debugged,” says Fabien Gaucher, CEO of Argosim. “When we show them the STIMULUS demo, they can see that Argosim offers requirements definition and simulation capabilities at a high level of abstraction that fits well with their current specification practices and ultimately cuts design time and costs.”

On Feb. 24 at 16:30-17:00, Dr. Bertrand Jeannet, CTO of Argosim, will present “Debugging Real-Time Systems Requirements: Simulate the “What” Before the “How”. Jeannet will show system architects how they can debug and validate functional real-time requirements early before the design phase begins.