The Unified Modeling Language, widely used by software designers but little-known among their hardware counterparts, could be on its way to becoming a lingua franca for system-level modeling. But even ...

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 ...

Developing real-time, Web-ena-bled applications using UML has gotten easier with the release of Rhapsody 3.0. Along with a number of other new features and updates, this tool now supports XML Metadata ...

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 ...

Many UML 2.0 products have been able to generate code for languages like Ada, C, C++, and Java from UML (Universal Modeling Language) models. Typically, though, the C developer was expected to learn ...

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 ...