Analyst firm Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF) has released a report entitled “Reducing OEM Development Costs and Enabling Embedded Design Efficiencies Using the Unified Modeling Language.” The report finds that technologies derived from UML can help embedded projects stay on schedule and reach completion.

According to EMF, “Data shows a consistent four month average delay, with 56 percent of all embedded designs completed behind schedule. Eleven percent of embedded designs are cancelled.”

EMF's data suggest that technologies derived from the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can offer “better design results with considerable savings to OEM's, embedded developers, and system integrators.” UML-derived technologies noted include simulation-modeling, rapid prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and automatic code generation,

While UML has been available for some time, widespread acceptance in the embedded community has been lacking, in part due 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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