UML (Unified Modeling Language) is by far today's most common modeling language. Software engineers routinely use UML in firmware and real-time- and embedded-systems development, and more and more, ...

This paper documents work that has been carried out to automate the checking of system software architecture specifications of SoCs. Checking the architecture ...

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 ...

Bruce Powel Douglass, PhD, is a name to know when it comes to UML (universal modeling language). Douglas was chief evangelist for I-Logix and has continuously revealed his considerable expertise in ...

For chip architects and designers, the SysML dialect of UML could be useful, but the ROI hurdle is not likely to be scaled in the near future. At some point down the road in the realm of system-level ...

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 proposes an object-oriented analysis (OOA) technique based on the unified modeling language (UML). The technique emphasizes its OOA process, that is composed of the following activities: ...

As UML notations play a significant role in MDA modeling, the OMG has been directing an ongoing effort to update and standardize UML specifications. As the standardization process progresses, the ...