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ii Embedded software development is characterized by design issues involving time and resource constraints. An application- specific user interface complicates the process of developing such software using PC-based development environments. Reusing established best-practices is a useful method of dealing with such complexities. Design patterns are well-documented, time-tested solutions to classic design problems and capture significant domain knowledge. This thesis is concerned with the use of one such pattern collection suitable for building embedded systems with a time-triggered architecture. Traditionally, a practitioner wishing to incorporate design patterns into the software being developed would read the documentation and apply the suggested solution manually. More recently, code generators designed to automate the process of converting a pattern solution to source code, have been developed. In either approach, the example solution offered as part of the pattern documentation plays a key role i