UML guru Bruce Douglass, chief evangelist at i-Logix Inc. and co-chairman of UML's real-time analysis group, said a number of companies are already using UML for system-level design.

This is a key feature because UML-based design implementations often span companies. Collaboration support is the basis for other enhancements in Rhapsody 3.0, too.

This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference patterns. Specifically, the following contributions are made: (i) identifying and documenting (in UML) STB ...

For System-on-Chip (SoC) design, UML has been accepted as next generation language [5], because of its capability to describe, at a high level, both architecture and communication.

From an engineering and quality perspective, the most compelling advantage of this approach is that the UML models and therefore the architecture and design are synchronized with the programming ...

The UML/SysML-based hardware/software co-design solution uses an enhanced SysML profile linked to a SystemC code generator for Artisan Studio, the company claimed.

Many UML 2.0 products have been able to generate code for languages like Ada, C, C++, and Java from UML (Universal Modeling Language) models. Typically, though, the C developer was expected to ...