Work by Cadence Design Systems and the companies that make up the European Electronic Chips and Systems Design Initiative (ECSI) could lead to a version of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) that ...

In the past ten years, automotive systems and software design has changed dramatically to meet increased product expectations, new design technologies, and workflow changes. Today's engineers overcome ...

As with most of the hardware-oriented C variants, one solution to the problem of taking a software-oriented language for use in SoC is to add hardware features to it. The same has been proposed for ...

Washington DC, USA and Cheltenham, England: Artisan Software Tools has announced the first technology solution to emerge from the European Union’s Framework7 SATURN project—a UML/SysML-based ...

"M y kingdom for a good book that covers UML modeling with Visual Studio .NET!" Was this the anguished cry of Shakespeare's Richard III? More likely it is the frustrated diatribe of project managers, ...

In the field of model-based verification (also called model-based testing in the software and automotive systems domain), for instance, some UML tools already support testbench specification and ...

In this second article, we describe the elements of Executable and Translatable UML (xtUML, or just Executable UML) [1], how actions enable description of behavior at a higher level of abstraction, ...