Marco Aurélio Wehrmeister, Professor at the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil), gave a distinguished seminar on "Applying Model-Driven Engineering in the co-design of Real-Time Embedded Systems", where he presented methods and techniques applied in the co-design of real-time embedded systems, specifically those that are implemented as a System-on-Chip (SoC) and include components with reconfigurable logic (FPGA).
Specifically, he introduced model-driven engineering (MDE) techniques combined with separation of concerns in the handling of functional and non-functional requirements. Results indicate that the abstraction increase obtained by using the proposed framework leads to an improvement in the reuse and adaptation of software components.
Marco Aurélio is current chair of the special commission on Computing Systems Engineering of the Brazilian Computer Society and also member and vice-chair of the IFIP Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems.
