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Do Useful Multi-Domain Methods Exist?

abstract The creation of embedded systems requires multi-disciplinary methods. The class of embedded systems is a quite heterogeneous class of systems, ranging from small high volume integrated circuits to expensive one-of-a-kind systems, such as electron microscopes or air-traffic controllers. The Embedded Systems Institute has been founded on the assumption that multi-disciplinary methods to create embedded systems can be applied in multiple doamins, despite the wide variation in embedded systems over the domains. In this article we discuss this assumption and we give a budget method as an example of a multi-disciplinary multi-domain method. Multi-disciplinary methods are used widely in the industry, but these methods are poorly consolidated and founded. We discuss the required research steps to advance from implicit methods to explicit and founded methods.

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History

0.8 March 4, 2005 Gerrit Muller
  • changed status to concept
  • minor textual changes
0.7 October 25, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • clarified multi-domain and multi-disciplinary
  • changed status to draft
  • rephrased assumptions of the research agenda
0.6 September 22, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • added text about recipes and tools to the section What is a method?
  • added more text to the subsection lack of tools
  • reworked the overlay budget example to follow the structure of the method description.
  • reworked the memory budget example to follow the structure of the method description.
0.5 September 17, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • moved domain discussion to new section
  • added short discussion of ESI research agenda assumptions
  • added short description of CAFCR
  • factored out a section What is a Method?
  • reorganized the budget section, following the ingredients of a method
0.4 September 15, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • updated the abstract
  • added reference to Boderc
  • changed status to preliminary draft
  • added experience of the author as the source of the observations
  • many small textual improvements
  • defined in the introduction what we use as domain
  • moved text about mono-disciplinary methods to the introduction
  • added more text about measurements in relation to budgetting
  • made the four method characteristics metioned in section 2 more explicit in section 4.
  • added slide with technology management cycle
0.3 September 8, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • added section "How to proceed?"
  • added conclusion about approach to the conclusions.
  • added power budget in document handling as third budget example
0.2 September 2, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • added explanation of domains to introduction
  • added text about the relationship between mono-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods
0.1 August 30, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • added section Problems
  • added text to section Examples
  • added some text to waferstepper overlay budget example
0 August 17, 2004 Gerrit Muller
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