VIRTUAL SIMULATION DEVICE AND VIRTUAL SIMULATION SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND VIRTUAL SIMULATION METHOD

• US 20150121350A1
• Filed: 11/27/2013
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation (Kyungpook National University)
• Original Assignee: Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation (Kyungpook National University)
• Inventors: LEE, Woo Jin, JANG, Soo Young
• Application Number:
  US14/091,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121350A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/135
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3648 using additional hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software

Abstract

Provided is a virtual simulation device including a simulator unit executing embedded software; an image implementing unit implementing an image corresponding to an embedded system in which the embedded software is installed; and a state managing unit, wherein the state managing unit receives a state message created by executing the embedded software from the simulator unit, converts the state message into a control message capable of being interpreted by the image implementing unit and delivers the control message to the image implementing unit.

Claims

1. A virtual simulation device comprising:

a simulator unit executing embedded software;

an image implementing unit implementing an image corresponding to an embedded system in which the embedded software is installed; and

a state managing unit, wherein the state managing unit receives a state message created by executing the embedded software from the simulator unit, converts the state message into a control message capable of being interpreted by the image implementing unit and delivers the control message to the image implementing unit.

2. The virtual simulation device of claim 1, wherein the image implementing unit implements a shape of the embedded system as the image.

3. The virtual simulation device of claim 2, wherein the image implementing unit implements the image as a shockwave flash (SWF) format.

4. The virtual simulation device of claim 1, wherein the image implementing unit implements the image so that at least one of components corresponding to controllable portions in the embedded system is included in the image.

5. The virtual simulation device of claim 4, wherein the image implementing unit implements the image so that the component has a plurality of states, and

a component in each state comprise at least one entity corresponding to a component shape of a corresponding state.

6. The virtual simulation device of claim 5, wherein the image implementing unit changes the state of the component according to the control message.

7. The virtual simulation device of claim 5, wherein the image implementing unit creates a manipulation message in response to image manipulation by a user, and

the simulator unit creates the state message for changing the state of the component in response to the manipulation message.

8. The virtual simulation device of claim 1, wherein the state managing unit converts the state message into the control message with reference to a control table in which the state message is mapped to the control message.

9. A virtual simulation system comprising:

a display unit displaying an image corresponding to an embedded system;

a user input unit receiving an input to manipulate the image from a user;

a storage unit storing embedded software installed in the embedded system; and

a processing unit executing the embedded software and changing the image, wherein the processing unit comprises;

a simulator unit executing the embedded software;

an image implementing unit implementing the image and changing the image according to a control message; and

a state managing unit, wherein the state managing unit receives a state message created by executing the embedded software from the simulator unit and converts the state message into a control message capable of being interpreted by the image implementing unit.

10. A virtual simulation method comprising:

executing embedded software and creating a state message, by a simulator unit;

converting, by a state managing unit, the state message into a control message capable of being interpreted by an image implementing unit; and

changing, by the image implementing unit, an image corresponding to an embedded system according to the control message.

11. The virtual simulation method of claim 10, wherein the image implements a shape of the embedded system.

12. The virtual simulation method of claim 11, wherein the image is implemented as an SWF format.

13. The virtual simulation method of claim 10, wherein the image comprises at least one of components corresponding to controllable portions in the embedded system.

14. The virtual simulation method of claim 13, wherein the component has a plurality of states and a component in each state comprises at least one entity corresponding to a component shape of a corresponding state.

15. The virtual simulation method of claim 14, wherein the changing of the image comprises a component having a first state to a component having a second state according to the control message.

16. The virtual simulation method of claim 10, wherein the converting of the state message into the control message comprises the state message into the control message with reference to a control table in which the state message is mapped to the control message.

17. The virtual simulation method of claim 14, further comprising:

creating a manipulation message by the image implementing unit, in response to an input by a user who manipulates the image; and

creating, by the simulator unit, the state message for changing the state of the component in response to the manipulation message.

18. A computer readable recording medium on which a program to be executed on a computer is recorded, wherein the program implements the virtual simulation method according to claim 10.