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 column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

Since its emergence in the mid-1990s as a modeling methodology to allow developers to define, specify and analyze software architectures, the Universal Modeling Language has changed dramatically. Now ...

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 ...

Soon you’ll be able to take advantage of elaborated interfaces and ports, interaction fragments and operators, plus better modeling of behavior over time. DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete ...

In the last two Paranoid Penguin columns, I walked you through the process of building a virtual network server using User-Mode Linux. We built both host and guest kernels, obtained a prebuilt root ...