Experiments in Rapid Prototyping of Reactive Systems with POLIS

This paper presents the experiments designed in order to validate our previously proposed methodology that uses POLIS as a co-design environment for reactive systems and two prototyping boards that use two different microcontrollers as SW components. On one hand, we reviewed the manually profiled SW cost parameters by using test tools. On the other hand, we have tried several applications on the two different platforms, focusing on different optimizing goals. By doing this, we have checked the suitability of the platforms and its range of application. Several weaknesses of POLIS are identified related to the adaptation to the characteristics of each microcontroller.