Title :
Heterogeneous systems design: a UML-based approach
Author :
Barrios, Santiago Domínguez ; López, Juan Carlos López
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Ingenieria Electron., Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
Inherent complexity of heterogeneous system design has been traditionally faced by means of abstraction and design automation. At the highest level of abstraction, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can be extended to model the whole system under design in an homogeneous fashion. In this paper, a design methodology based on the UML is presented. The benefits of using such a methodology are highlighted taking the design of an MPEG-4 decoder as an example
Keywords :
computational complexity; electronic design automation; MPEG-4 decoder; UML-based approach; Unified Modeling Language; abstraction; design automation; heterogeneous systems design; inherent complexity; Assembly; CMOS technology; Decoding; Design methodology; Digital signal processing; Hardware; MPEG 4 Standard; Natural languages; Telecommunications; Unified modeling language;
Conference_Titel :
EUROMICRO Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 25th
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0321-7
DOI :
10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794496