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 ...

As system engineers explore therequirements for a system and begin to define a high-levelsolution, they face a number of challenges, including defining thesystem context and top-level structure; ...

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 ...

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 ...