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How to program an Arduino with State Machines in 5 minutes

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE In this blog post, you will learn in four simple steps how to use YAKINDU Statechart Tools to develop software for the Arduino platform. The example application is a simple pedestrian traffic light.

by René Beckmann

9 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

Integrating Xtext Language Server Support in Visual Studio Code

There is currently some buzz around Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor and its ability to support rich code editing for potentially any language through its Language Server Protocol (LSP). Thanks to the work from TypeFox, the upcoming version 2.11 ...

by Xtext-Team

14 min. reading time
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Statechart Tools 2.7.0 - New and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Today we released version 2.7.0 of YAKINDU Statechart Tools! The product bundle of SCT is now shipped with Eclipse Neon as underlying platform which comes with several improvements as compared to the Mars ...

by Thomas Kutz

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Developing a custom code generator by example of SCXML

This blog post explains how to develop a custom code generator for the open source framework YAKINDU Statechart Tools. As an example, we will generate Statechart XML (SCXML) from a simple stop watch state machine.

by Andreas Mülder

6 min. reading time
Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Xtext and Controlled Natural Languages for Software Requirements (Part 1)

Stakeholders usually document requirements informally, i.e. in natural language. Often using text processing programs which do not provide any input assistance related to the requirements and do not allow their automated validation or post-processing. This leads ...

by Christoph Knauf

9 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Using YAKINDU State Machine Trace Callbacks

Typically state machines generated from YAKINDU SCT state charts are used as black boxes. The code that embeds the state machines does not care about the internal execution of the state machine. But there are various use cases where information about internal ...

by Axel Terfloth

4 min. reading time
EA-Bridge, Embedded

Eclipse-based Code Generation for Enterprise Architect Models

Every once in a while our clients ask us whether it is possible to generate code for UML models designed with the Enterprise Architect (EA). Short answer: yes, but we don’t recommend it. In general, we encourage our clients to follow the model-driven engineering ...

by Patrick Könemann

7 min. reading time
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Accelerating State Machine Debugging using Simulation Snapshots

Testing complex state machines can be cumbersome as many steps need to be repetitively performed until a state of interest is reached. To overcome this, the YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition provides a new feature called Simulation Snapshots which ...

by Thomas Kutz

3 min. reading time
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Better Statechart Testing with Simulation Breakpoints

When testing code, breakpoints are of a great help and most of you are probably using them on a daily basis in their IDE. An executable graphical model, like a state machine, is just a different view on the code it represents; and sooner or later you will need to ...

by Thomas Kutz

4 min. reading time
EA-Bridge, Embedded

Eclipse-based UML Validation of Enterprise Architect Models

Two weeks ago, there was yet another newsletter from Sparx Systems in my inbox telling me more about the latest fancy new features they added to the Enterprise Architect (EA). Project management, look of diagrams, wireframe designing for Windows Phone, even a new ...

by Patrick Könemann

5 min. reading time

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