ArcheOpterix: An extendable tool for architecture optimization ofAADL models

For embedded systems quality requirements are equally if not even more important than functional requirements. The foundation for the fulfillment of these quality require-ments has to be set in the architecture design phase. How-ever, finding a suitable architecture design is a difficult task for software and system architects. Some of the reasons for this are an ever-increasing complexity of today’s sys-tems, strict design constraints and conflicting quality re-quirements. To simplify the task, this paper presents an extendable Eclipse-based tool, called ArcheOpterix, which provides a framework to implement evaluation techniques and optimization heuristics for AADL specifications. Cur-rently, evolutionary strategies have been implemented to identify optimized deployment architectures with respect to multiple quality objectives and design constraints. Exper-iments with a set of initial deployment architectures pro-vide evidence that the tool can successfully find architecture specifications with better quality