The basic tools we have proposed that the SoC hardware developer use to simplify his job—UML models, metamodels, and transformations to text—all fit into a larger context. The Object Management ...

My organization has struggled with the development of a software design methodology that utilizes UML effectively. Not only was it difficult to form a consensus among our technical leads about how ...

As with most of the hardware-oriented C variants, one solution to the problem of taking a software-oriented language for use in SoC is to add hardware features to it. The same has been proposed for ...

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 ...

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

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 ...