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Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03)   p. 10668
A First Step Towards Hw/Sw Partitioning of UML Specifications
W. Fornaciari, Politecnico di Milano and CEFRIEL
P. Micheli, Politecnico di Milano
F. Salice, Politecnico di Milano and CEFRIEL
L. Zampella, Politecnico di Milano

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Abstract
This paper proposes a novel methodology tailored to design embedded systems, taking into account the emerging market needs, such as hw/sw partitioning, object-oriented specifications, overall design costs and early analysis of design alternatives. The proposal tackles the problem by considering UML as the starting point for system-level description and uses a customization of Function Point analysis and COCOMO to provide cost metrics both for hardware and software. Finally, a genetic algorithm is used to select the best candidate architecture. The paper also reports some results, obtained from a case studies, showing the viability of the proposed approach.
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Citation:  W. Fornaciari, P. Micheli, F. Salice, L. Zampella, "A First Step Towards Hw/Sw Partitioning of UML Specifications," date, p. 10668,  Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03),  2003