Papyrus Software Designer

Papyrus Designer

What is Papyrus Designer?

Papyrus designer supports the code generation from models including embedded and real-time systems as potential targets. In does this at two different levels of abstraction.

• Direct code generation for a specific programming language. Currently, C++ and Java are supported, C will be supported soon.

• Support for component-based models. In this case, the generation starts from a model that includes the definition of software components, hardware nodes and deployment information. The latter consists of a definition of the instances of components and nodes and an allocation between these. Code generation is done by a sequence of transformations steps. The model transformation takes care of some platform specific aspects (e.g. communication mechanisms or thread allocation), based on non-functional properties. This is complementary with the upcoming Papyrus architect that can create an allocation based on modeled analysis data such as period length or worst case execution times.

Papyrus Designer code generation

Tool Chain overview

Papyrus Designer is integrated into the open source UML editor Papyrus, The UML profile MARTE is used for non-functional properties. Parts of the component model were developed in the context of the French national project Flex-eWare.

Target audience

The following information assume that the reader already knows UML and the basics about component oriented design.

Content of this document

In the sequel, you find information about the Papyrus Designer

• Getting started and installation instructions
• Input models for code generation
• Using dedicated interaction components and realizing cross-cutting concerns via the container
• Code generation from models
• Discussion of a set of examples
• Use of Papyrus Designer for reconfiguration (ongoing work)