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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, England: Artisan Software Tools has announced the first technology solution to emerge from the European Union’s Framework7 SATURN project—a UML/SysML-based ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference patterns. Specifically, the following contributions are made: (i) identifying and documenting (in UML) STB ...

LONDON — Axilica Ltd. (Loughborough, England), is introducing an EDA tool called FalconML that helps take engineers from UML descriptions of systems down to SystemC descriptions and to FPGA or ASIC ...