In the latest years, the usage of UML to describe complete systems, including SoCs [1], has been increased. In trend with this line, this work proposes a methodology, based on UML, for SoCs designing ...

Though I often hear that question, perhaps a better formulation is:”Is anyone other than well-funded pioneers like NASA using UML to auto-generatecode?” For the dream of model driven design is to ...

In-Depth From UML to Design by Contract By Christine Mingins, Yu Liu April 1, 2001 A trustworthy, reusable component will clearly advertise the set of services it provides in its interface. More ...

In this second article, we describe the elements of Executable and Translatable UML (xtUML, or just Executable UML) [1], how actions enable description of behavior at a higher level of abstraction, ...

The Unified Modeling Language, widely used by software designers but little-known among their hardware counterparts, could be on its way to becoming a lingua franca for system-level modeling. But even ...

The UML modeler is built on top of the Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit, so you'll need to download and install the Visual Studio 2010 SDK and the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling ...

Embedded systems usually need only a UML core subset, consisting of use cases, classes and objects, and statecharts.

The UML provides an excellent startingpoint for defining and designing computer systems, but forreal-time development, the UML needs to go further. Recognizingthis need, in 1999 the Object Management ...

If modeling projects aren't available, check that you have the Ultimate version. Create a new UML Class Diagram and drag classes, interfaces and enumerations from the toolbox, as shown in Figure 1. To ...

If there is too much repetition in the models, then the modeling language will need to be extended to cover additional concepts. Where does UML stand with regard to all these observations?