Platform-based design

Platform-based design is a design approach emphasizing systematic reuse, for developing complex products based upon platforms and compatible hardware and software virtual component, intended to reduce development risks, costs and time to market.^[1]

A platform is a library of components that can be assembled to generate a design at that level of abstraction. The platform-based design starts at the highest level of abstraction and carries out the design as a sequence of refinement steps at various levels of abstractions.^[2]

See also

• Electronic design automation
• Electronic system-level design and verification
• Functional Design

References

1. Brian Bailey, Grant Martin and Thomas Anderson, Taxonomies for the Development and Verification of Digital Systems, Springer (2005) ISBN 0-387-24019-5
2. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto. "System Level Design: a Platform-Based Approach" (PDF).