Prototyping and Simulation as a Means of Software Verification

This manuscript describes a method for verifying the correctness of embedded software systems modeled and implemented with rapid prototyping and automatic code generation tools. By reusing the prototyping system as a reference, an automated means of comparing the target implementation to the validated model functionality is derived. The comparison ensures that the integer code generated and compiled for a specific production target corresponds and behaves identically to the function model developed in a rapid-prototyping environment.