As embedded systems continue to face increasingly higher performance requirements, deeply pipelined processor architectures are being employed to meet desired system performance. System architects critically need modeling techniques that allow exploration, evaluation, customization and validation of different processor pipeline configurations, tuned for a specific application domain. We propose...

Research has demonstrated that enabling societal and physical infrastructure and personal accommodations enhance healthy and active aging throughout the lifespan. Yet, there is a paucity of research on how to bring together the various disciplines involved in a multidomain synergistic collaboration to create new living environments for aging. This paper aims to explore the key domains of skills...

Traditionally, non-functional requirements (NFRs) are specified as measurable entities to permit evaluation satisfaction; however, NFR specifications quickly become obsolete because (1) NFRs are expressed in numbers, (2) architects specify them using the correct values at design time, and/or (3) providers are constantly improving their offer, in terms of functionality and quality of service (Qo...

In the software architecture design, architects usually adopt many classic architectural patterns. However, such important design decisions often fail to be effectively captured in practice. The problem called “architecture erosion” may happen easily. During the design iterations, the latest design may accidentally violate the constraints implied by existing architectural patterns. During the e...

Awareness widgets facilitate coordination for both synchronous and asynchronous groupware systems. Unfortunately, they cannot be used for multi-synchronous groupware systems. With a group of architects, we have designed a new awareness widget for multisynchronous groupware system called “State Treemap”. We have developed and integrated this widget in a platform for hosting virtual teams of arch...

Component-based design provides primitives to build complex architectures from basic components. This bottom-up approach allows design-architects to reuse efficient custom solutions with best performances. This paper presents a highlevel component-based methodology and design environment for multiprocessor system-on-chip architectures. The design environment provides automatic wrapper-generatio...

Mergers between enterprises or carved-out parts thereof are a common phenomenon in todays economic environment. They nevertheless form a major challenge for enterprise architects, who have to consolidate, i.e. to harmonize and integrate the business capabilities in the newly formed enterprise, reducing redundancy as far as possible. This article presents a best practice approach to this consoli...

Architectural planning plays a vital role in creating efficient and effective healthcare environments, especially specialized units such as burn units. This article explores the importance of thoughtful design unit architecture, focusing on spaces that promote optimal patient care recovery. The objective is to enhance outcomes, ensure staff efficiency, foster healing environment. begins by high...

This paper presents an in-depth view of how architects work with maintaining product line architectures in the automotive industry. The study has been performed at two internationally well-known companies, one car manufacture and one commercial vehicle manufacture. The results are based on 12 interviews with architects performed at the two companies. The study shows what effect differences such...

Over the past ten years DRAM architects have struggled to keep up with the everincreasing clock rate of CPUs in order to deliver commensurate performance from the primary memory system. This rush to keep up with the system clock rate led architects down a path of optimizations that is beginning to get very thorny, namely optimizing based on bandwidth while ignoring latency. The specter of laten...