Rethinking system-level development: striving for coherency, certitude, and realizability

Superior system level development of computer based systems (CBSs) demands a rigorous approach that authoritatively defines an integrated design solution before proceeding very far with customary pro forma documentation. Such an approach would early on address issues like overall concurrency logic, real time performance, and system management overhead in a unified and exacting manner. The prototype model presented mainly addresses the architectural dynamics of the nascent system infrastructure. Accordingly, the modeling captures the absolute time based behavior of abstract active system elements. This focus enables the precise definition of the logical interfaces for concurrency interactions and the quantitative determination of sizing and timing parameters for a system level design solution. Once the system specification is prepared, the infrastructure prototype model is elaborated to acknowledge physical component allocations. The system level concurrency logic and the quantitative parameters are then apportioned over the physical component models. Upon verification and optimization, these details are inserted in the respective top level component specifications.