This paper documents work that has been carried out to automate the checking of system software architecture specifications of SoCs. Checking the architecture ...

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; ...

Consider two methods of collecting and presenting computer system specifications to users. One is far more likely to result in disastrous development projects plagued by miscommunication and users who ...

In his Sept. 24 Computerworld column, “Five Diagrams Beat a ‘Victorian Novel’ Text Specification,” Michael Hugos states that Unified Modeling Language “can probably be blamed for many failed system ...