LONDON — 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 Modeling Language that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several design patterns are defined to make systems more flexible and extensible. The main goal of this work is to show how the representation of these kinds of patterns, which we refer to as ...

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 our third installment on UML we'll show you how to use sequence diagrams as a tool in your application development and an understanding of object interaction. The purpose of a class diagram is to ...

A trustworthy, reusable component will clearly advertise the set of services it provides in its interface. More information can be gained about how to use a service by examining an operation's ...

The core concepts in hardware-software co-design are getting another look, nearly two decades after this approach was first introduced and failed to catch on. What’s different this time around is the ...

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 ...