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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The benefits of UML (Universal Modeling Language) are renowned, but migrating from C to UML can be daunting. I-Logix's Rhapsody in C targets embedded C developers, especially those working on 8- and ...

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 ...