Architecture design of a virtualized embedded system

Nowadays, embedded systems have become a major driver of technological developments particularly in the industrial sector. In an embedded system, the hardware and software components are so intertwined that evolution is often a big issue. Thanks to the contributions of virtualization it is possible to design more flexible and scalable embedded systems. In fact, virtualization adds an abstraction layer between the hardware and the software to make it less intimately dependent. In this paper we propose system architecture based on embedded virtualization that will be modeled by the multi-agent systems. In the first part, we will discuss the state of the art with respect to embedded systems, multi-agent systems and the concept of virtualization. In the second part, we explain theissues related to traditional embedded systems and the constraints associated with their architecture. Subsequently, we propose a virtualization based architecture for embedded systems. In the last part we will showcase this architecture through a prototype.