Application of the object-oriented principles for hardware and embedded system design

Integration, the VLSI Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 309-339

  Damasevicms R ^a   Stuikys V ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Class diagram; Embedded system design; Modeling; Object oriented hardware design; UML

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CLASS DIAGRAM; EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN; OBJECT-ORIENTED HARDWARE DESIGN; UML;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 9644289383     PISSN: 01679260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vlsi.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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