Embedded systems are becoming increasingly complex and heterogeneous. Formal methods have proven effective in ensuring reliability and safety. However, they are hard to scale up. Modeling and Simulation (M&S)-based methods, on the other hand, deal effectively with scalability issues and provide the benefits of a risk-free testing environment. Yet, they are usually at most semi-formal, and models are not directly executed on the target hardware. To address the above challenges, we present a

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... l M&S-based kernel that runs on bare-metal and execute the original simulation models on the target hardware.