Platform Design Overview

You use Capital Systems Architect to create platform designs and diagrams.

The Capital Systems applications create implementation proposals for downstream development and implementation flows. They enable rapid design iterations to validate and understand the technical impact of decisions on the overall EE (electrical/electronic) platform level.

Within the platform diagrams, Capital Systems Architect takes functions from associated Capital Systems Modeler designs and recognizes them as software or electrical devices. You place the functions in components.

The system translates the signals between different functions into network signals, software communications, and electrical signals. This synthesis happens in the background. You can run metrics against the designs to measure things such as network bandwidth utilization, requirements for RAM, ROM and Flash, and CPU load.

Decisions made at this stage include where to allocate functions to components and how to route signals between components — over networks, point-to-point electrical connections, or software communications within a shared processor. Capital Systems Architect lets you iterate on these architecture decisions quickly and see the downstream technical impact (bandwidth, memory, timing) before committing to a physical implementation.

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