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 ...

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 ...