Method and system for performance level modeling and simulation of electronic systems having both hardware and software elements

A computer implemented method of modeling an electronic system having both hardware and software elements, comprising:

• capturing a plurality of behaviors that correspond to operations performed by the system being modeled;
• capturing a plurality of hardware and software architectural components the plurality being contained within an architectural platform;
• mapping each of the captured behaviors of the plurality of behaviors to a selected architectural component to perform the behavior;
• recognizing and capturing communication patterns among the architectural components that require communication among them in order to perform the behaviors;
• and
• mapping each instance of communication between behaviors to an instance of the captured pattern;
• wherein the architectural components are high level architectural components and not component level design items.

A computer implemented method of modeling an electronic system having both hardware and software elements, comprising:

• capturing a plurality of behaviors that correspond to operations performed by the system being modeled;
• capturing a plurality of hardware and software architectural components the plurality being contained within an architectural platform;
• mapping each of the captured behaviors of the plurality of behaviors to a selected architectural component to perform the behavior;
• recognizing and capturing communication patterns among the architectural components that require communication among them in order to perform the behaviors;
• and
• mapping each instance of communication between behaviors to an instance of the captured pattern
• wherein the communication patterns include each of timing, speed and protocols that are required to carry out communication between the separate architectural components.

A computer implemented method, of modeling an electronic system having both hardware and software elements, comprising:

• capturing a plurality of behaviors that correspond to operations performed by the system being modeled;
• capturing a plurality of hardware and software architectural components the plurality being contained within an architectural platform;
• mapping each of the captured behaviors of the plurality of behaviors to a selected architectural component to perform the behavior;
• recognizing and capturing communication patterns among the architectural components that require communication among them in order to perform the behaviors;
• and
• mapping each instance of communication between behaviors to an instance of the captured pattern;
• wherein the step of mapping each instance of communication comprises mapping each instance of communication to a semaphore pattern that includes a sender and receiver pair of pattern services representing each end of the communication.

A system for creating a behavioral model of an electronic system having hardware and software components, comprising:

• a plurality of architectural components, each of the architectural components corresponding to a component capable of being implemented as part of the electronic system;
• and
• means for generating communication patterns between the architectural components that require communication between them in order to perform user specified behaviors;
• each communication pattern including communication between any intervening architectural components needed to communicate between architectural components carrying out the behaviors;
• wherein the architectural components are high level architectural components and not component level design items, wherein the behavioral model is created.

A performance level computer implement model of the communications between behaviors of an electronic system having hardware and software components, the model comprising:

• an application programming interface for a first behavior that provides data to be transferred to one or more destination behaviors;
• a first service that implements the application programming interface that models the performance of the communication protocol, the first service being among a plurality of services supported by the pattern to which the behavior communication is mapped;
• one or more application programming interfaces used by the first service to model performance of the architecture platform, the application interfaces being among a plurality of service declarations supported by the symbol of the architectural component to which the first behavior is mapped;
• a supported service declaration on the symbol of the architecture component by a service definition, the service definition being among a plurality of service definitions specified by the performance model of the architecture component;
• a second application interface that represents a function to be performed by a second architectural component topologically connected to the first component of the electronic system, the second service being one a plurality of second services each corresponding to a function capable of being performed by the second architectural component;
• an input application interface on the destination behavior that receives output information of the performance level computer implemented model of the electronic system, thereby completing a communication from source behavior to destination behavior,
• wherein the model is configured to,
• capture a plurality of behaviors that correspond to operations performed by the system being modeled,
• capture a plurality of hardware and software architectural components the plurality being contained within an architectural platform,
• map each of the captured behaviors of the plurality of behaviors to a selected architectural component to perform the behavior,
• recognize and capture communication patterns among the architectural components that require communication among them in order to perform the behaviors, and
• map each instance of communication between behaviors to an instance of the captured pattern and re-map portions of the behavioral blocks to different architectural blocks and causing implementations of behavior to move between hardware and software.