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 ...

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 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 ...

This article looks at some of the abstractions in a new profile of UML, the RT-Profile, which particularly affects software design for real-time use. Included in the paper are a set of patterns that ...

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 ...

Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF covers the UML models available in Visio, as well as tools and features for developing and testing enterprise systems. "My kingdom for a ...

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 ...