Work by Cadence Design Systems and the companies that make up the European Electronic Chips and Systems Design Initiative (ECSI) could lead to a version of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) that ...

In the past ten years, automotive systems and software design has changed dramatically to meet increased product expectations, new design technologies, and workflow changes. Today's engineers overcome ...

From determining the hardware/software partition to meeting performance and cost objectives, the job of building systems on a chip has never been easy, and with ever-increasing demand for more ...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has already received considerable acceptance in the domain of telecommunication and automotive systems, and now we see emerging activities in the field of SoC ...

Embedded systems usually need only a UML core subset, consisting of use cases, classes and objects, and statecharts. In recent years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been successfully used to ...

In the first article in this series, we introduced the notion of an executable UML, but we did not describe the elements of which it consists. These elements must be sufficiently primitive to be ...