Design by contract is a practical methodology for developing code together with its specification. The contract consists of class invariants and method preand postconditions. As ...
Maayan Goldstein, Yishai A. Feldman, Shmuel S. Tys...
Small area and code size are two critical design issues in most of embedded system designs. In this paper, we tackle these issues by customizing forwarding networks and instructio...
Swarnalatha Radhakrishnan, Hui Guo, Sri Parameswar...
We propose a technique to automatically synthesize programs and schedules for hard real-time distributed (embedded) systems from synchronous data-flow models. Our technique connec...
Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, Akramul Azim, Sebastian Fi...
Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to...
Five modern static analysis tools (ARCHER, BOON, PolySpace C Verifier, Splint, and UNO) were evaluated using source code examples containing 14 exploitable buffer overflow vulnera...