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 ...

Figure 4 shows an abstraction of Fig. 3 called a UML deployment diagram, which depicts the location of the technology units and the communication links between them.3 The example in Fig. 4 shows that ...

As system engineers explore therequirements for a system and begin to define a high-levelsolution, they face a number of challenges, including defining thesystem context and top-level structure; ...

This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

Soon you’ll be able to take advantage of elaborated interfaces and ports, interaction fragments and operators, plus better modeling of behavior over time. DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete ...