1. The benefits of UML for real time

Regardless of the precise figures, it's clear that there's an explosion in the market for embedded, real-time and distributed systems, which is putting extremely strong pressure on their development. The ever-increasing number of new services provided by these systems confronts developers with the problem of developing ever more sophisticated systems, while ever-increasing competition between companies encourages them to develop ever faster, with ever lower costs!

Conventional approaches to real-time development have reached their limits in a world where, on the one hand, hardware targets cannot be precisely known in advance and, on the other, system version upgrades are becoming increasingly rapid in order to keep pace with market requirements.

Reusability and scalability are becoming essential requirements for development methods and techniques....