The Total System Design (TSD) Methodology from Problem Definition to Hardware/Software Requirements

Authors

Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in St. Louis
Mishell J. Stucki, Washington University in St. Louis
Will D. Gillett, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

1982-02-01

Filename

WUCS-82-4.pdf

Technical Report Number

WUCS-82-4

Abstract

This paper presents an informal description of a methodology called the Total System Design (TSD) Methodology. It consists of two phases that deal with the transformation of a system requirements specification to a processing model (in the architecture design phase) and the subsequent generation of hardware and software requirements (in the binding phase). The proposed design strategy is based primarily on an extension of the concept of abstract machine hierarchies to distributed systems, while the binding strategy could be viewed as a "most constrained first" policy.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7X065CW

Recommended Citation

Roman, Gruia-Catalin; Stucki, Mishell J.; and Gillett, Will D., "The Total System Design (TSD) Methodology from Problem Definition to Hardware/Software Requirements" Report Number: WUCS-82-4 (1982). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/894