Guiding Principles for the Development of Complex Systems

We promote: Use of Technology-Independent System-Level Design Representations We want to enhance the longevity of our work by creating system-level design representation that are not tied to an underlying implementation technology. This can be achieved, in part, through separate representations for the logical and physical design. Figure 1. Provision for Fomalization and Early Detection of Errors Goal. Hardware and software implementations and specific technology selections are ``pushed'' near the very end (i.e., delayed as long as possible), but are performed once and must work flawlessly.

Section 5-1: April, 2003.