Abstract:Embedded systems are becoming increasingly complex, and the requirements analysis of their software systems has become a bottleneck in embedded system development. Device dependency and interleaving execution logic are typical characteristics of embedded software systems, necessitating effective requirement analysis methods to decouple the requirements based on device dependencies. Starting from the idea of environment-based modeling in requirement engineering, this study proposes a projection-based requirement analysis approach from system requirements to software requirements for embedded software systems, helping requirement engineers to effectively decouple the requirements. The study first summarizes the system requirement and software requirement descriptions of embedded software systems, defines the requirement decoupling strategies of embedded software systems based on interactive environment characteristics, and designs the specification process from system requirements to software requirements. A real case study is carried out in the spacecraft sun search system, and five representative case scenarios are quantitatively evaluated through two metrics of coupling and cohesion, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.