In the 1960's we learned how to compile assembly language into machine language. Twenty years later, we learned how to do the same for high-level languages such as C. Now it is time to compile models ...

LONDON — A group of companies is coming together to form an ad hoc standards body to flesh out the basis for an executable form of the Unified Modeling Language. UML provides a high-level, ...

For chip architects and designers, the SysML dialect of UML could be useful, but the ROI hurdle is not likely to be scaled in the near future. At some point down the road in the realm of system-level ...

Recently there have been a lot of discussions again about the next level of design abstraction for chip design. Are we there yet? Will we ever get there? Is it SystemC? UML/SysML perhaps? I am taking ...