System Architecting
As system architect, you’re in charge of taking crucial decisions that impact the rest of the project.
You interpret system specifications and take design decisions in terms of system architecture, hardware/software partitioning and system dimensioning.
Thanks to your past experiences, you have built a strong expertise in your application domain and worked on various projects.
Wrong architecture choices made very early can have terrible consequences on projects. Systems are all different and increasingly complex, integrating new technologies and functions. It's more and more difficult to handle them without computer-aided modeling and simulation
In addition, you deal with 2 distinct but complementary parts, hardware and software, usually developed by 2 separate teams, with their own practices and tools. As you pass on your work to engineers who develop the system, the probability that they introduce errors or deviate from your original vision is high.
If you ask yourself some of the following questions, CoFluent Studio™ may have part of the answer for you.
Your Concerns
"How can I find a solution to increasingly complex problems?"
Handling complexity requires adopting a higher abstraction level and following a systematic design process.
SLD (System-Level Design) takes you to a higher abstraction level where complexity is easier to dominate. CoFluent Studio™ allows you to model a system at the message abstraction level, above transaction and transfer levels.CoFluent Studio's top-down approach facilitates problems resolution by breaking-out complexity
"How can I avoid design-to-implementation gap?"
Software engineering no longer consists in solely writing and debugging code straight from specifications (when they're available…). Contrary to other computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools, CoFluent Studio™ introduces an abstraction level above C that actually works.
Thanks to the CoFluent Studio API, the tool has demonstrated its capability to be coupled with High-Level Synthesis tools and virtual platform technologies.
"How can I better master complexity?"
CoFluent Studio™ helps you concentrate on data and algorithms; it abstracts multitasking, communications and synchronization problems into intuitive graphical notations inspired from generic concepts found in real-time operating systems (tasks, events, message queues, etc.).
Graphical notations help structure your thoughts and abstract complexity. C code is used for data and behavioral description (algorithms and state machines) for which it's the most effective method.