One of the major challenges in designing an embedded system is to find a mapping of the application onto the execution platform which effectively fulfills the non-functional requirements of the embedded system such as timing, memory usage, energy consumption, and other cost. A particular challenge is to model and analyse cross-layer dependencies, where the change of a property in one part of the system, e.g. scheduling policy, may impact the performance of another part of the system, e.g. deadline miss on another processor, and hence, the overall system performance.           

MOVES is a tool which supports formal analysis of non-functional properties of an embedded system, covering the system layers of an application mapped on an execution platform, consisting of a heterogeneous multiprocessor architecture where each processor may run a real-time operating system, and where all processors are connected through a network.