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News Release from: I-Logix Europe | Subject: XMI-based UML Bridge
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2002
Bridge unites systems with software
I-Logix has developed a bridge it claims will unite systems engineering with software design and implementation.
I-Logix has developed a bridge it claims will unite systems engineering with software design and implementation This unique bridge will enable both the system engineer and the software developer the ability to work in their own domain, then exchange data via a standard format
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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I-Logix is the first company to bring a truly integrated process to embedded systems development.
In today's embedded development process, Systems Engineering is mainly driven by functional requirements.
In many projects, systems engineers apply classical structured analysis techniques to define system level requirements for ease of communication between the systems engineer and other groups involved in the development process, such as electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, marketing and customers.
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However while functional decomposition has remained the development methodology of choice for systems development, a gap has emerged between systems design and software development.
An increasing number of software developers are using object-oriented techniques to develop the software portion of the embedded system.
Traditionally, systems functionality is thrown over the wall to software development, and, until today, there has been no clear path to unite the two worlds.
This discontinuity has significant productivity, quality and cost impact.
In order to bridge this gap, I-Logix has developed a bridge based on the XML-based Model Interchange (XMI) standard which maps functional decomposition based systems design to object-oriented software development for the embedded systems market.
Systems engineers can now develop their system specifications with functional decomposition methodology using I-Logix Statemate Magnum systems engineering product, and then pass the model, via the XMI bridge, to I-Logix Rhapsody for software development.
Rhapsody is the fastest growing Unified Modelling Language (UML)-based object-oriented software development product on the market.
In addition to providing a common data exchange for functionally driven systems design and object-oriented software development; the bridge provides a unique testing platform.
For the first time, test vectors developed at the systems level can be passed down and carried through software development.
I-Logix is able to provide this capability by passing sequence diagrams from models created in Statemate Magnum to models created in Rhapsody.
In addition to transferring the design model, you can now reuse tests in the implementation phase, ensuring that what you designed is truly what is developed.
The XMI-based UML Bridge is available from I-Logix immediately.
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