A Framework for System-Level Partitioning of Object-Oriented Specifications

Object-oriented descriptions are gaining more and more importance in the high-level specification of hardware/software systems. Hiding the complexity from the developer is one of the key tasks in order to master the complexity of todays systems. With the high grade of abstraction necessary on the system level the automatic partitioning of a system is a difficult problem. In this paper we therefore present a strategy that allows the designer to guide the partitioning with object-oriented techniques. We also developed an object-oriented interface for the partition overlapping communication of objects. The usability of our approach is shown with the example of a JPEG codec.