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System Requirements, Understanding, and Design Environment

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The typical embedded system design starts with listing the requirements. But there will be little to go on, when the system is to be a loosely coupled network on which a number of functionalities are to be created. First, the design space has to be explored to find the practical operating limits despite the fact that not everything is clearly defined at the beginning. Applying wisdom is one approach to solve the dilemma, but a more structured development scheme is advisable.

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    Unified Modeling Language (see more in Section 3.3.1)

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    QFD Institute, http://www.qfdi.org.

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    The Object Management Group, http://www.omg.org.

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    Our faithful readers will easily recognize here the emergence of a local cloud.

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    Philips Research Robotics

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Spaanenburg, L., Spaanenburg, H. (2011). System Requirements, Understanding, and Design Environment. In: Cloud Connectivity and Embedded Sensory Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7545-4_3

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