Architecture Design and Assessment System

The Architecture Design and Assessment System was a set of software programs offered by the Research Triangle Institute from the mid 1980s until the early 1990s.^[1]

A petri-net graph model of a system was graphically created. The hierarchical graphs were simulated to determine resource utilization and throughput. Functional simulation of the model could be realized by attaching C or Ada code to the nodes. This enabled dynamic resource assignment, timing, and priority.

References

1. G.A. Frank, D.L. Franke, and W.F. Ingogly, "An Architecture Design and Assessment System,"VLSI Design, Vol. 6, No. 8, Aug. 1985, pp. 30-50

External links

• An Architecture Design and Assessment System for Software/Hardware Codesign, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE conference on Design automation, 1985

• The Modified Computational Graph and its Usage in Concurrent System Design and Analysis, Proc. of the Fifth Int. Conf. on Systems Engineering, pages 385-388. New York: IEEE, 1987

• The Modelling of a Spaceflight Optical Disk Recorder Controller Using the Architecture Design and Assessment System, IEEE Southeast Con, Apr 1990

• Application of Structured Analysis to a Telerobotic System, IEEE Internation Conference on System Engineering, Aug 1990

• Multiprocessor Performance Modeling with ADAS, AIAA Computers in Aerospace Conference, 7th, Monterey, CA, Oct 3-5, 1989

• Modeling and Analysis of Multiprocessor Architectures, AIAA-1989-3014

• The Test Engineer's Assistant: A Support Environment for Hardware Design for Testability, IEEE Computer Apr. 1989

• Integration of Tools for the Design and Assessment of High-Performance, Highly Reliable Computing System (DAHPHRS) Phase 1, NASA Contract NAS1-17964, May 1992, page 141 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19920019342_1992019342.pdf

• CSP-based object-oriented description and simulation of a reconfigurable adaptive beamforming architecture using the OODRA workbench, The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Nov 1990

• Aircraft design for mission performance using nonlinear multiobjective optimization methods, Journal of Aircraft (ISSN 0021-8669), vol. 27, Dec. 1990

• Parallelism in Sequential Multiprocessor Simulation Models: a Case Study, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Apr. 1995

• The Practice of Prolog: a Prolog-based VLSI editor, Leon Sterling, 1990, ISBN 0262193019