No matter how unique or cookie-cutter the building, every project has key drivers and tradeoffs the owner must contend with. Most project drivers are familiar to us: low install cost, low operating ...

A technical paper titled “PEak: A Single Source of Truth for Hardware Design and Verification” was published by researchers at Stanford University. “Domain-specific languages for hardware can ...

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Today, the Alliance for OpenUSD ( AOUSD) announced the first OpenUSD Core Specification, now available as an open standard ...

PSL is a formal notation for specification of electronic system behavior, compatible with multiple electronic system design languages, including IEEE Std 1076 (VHDL), IEEE Std 1354 (Verilog), IEEE Std ...

Standardization work is underway to develop assertion languages (for example, PSL and SystemVerilog Assertions) to address the shortcomings of natural language specification. The goal in creating ...

C compiler, LustreC, into a generator of both executable code and associated specification. Model-based design tools are ...

Specifically, the C# specification describes the representation of C# programs, syntax, and constraints, semantic rules for interpreting programs, and restrictions and limits imposed by a conforming ...

The Construction Specification Institute’s (CSI) recommendations for writing effective specifications contain the now familiar “Four C's.” Specifications should be clear, concise, correct and complete ...

Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is a standardised modelling language widely used to describe and analyse the architectures of embedded real-time systems. AADL provides a formal ...