[aadl]: Modelling best practices

[Jean-François Tilman]

   Hi Julien,

Le 31/10/2011 14:57, julien.delange at esa.int a écrit :
> I am currently using AADL to capture a system architecture. It is composed
> of many heterogeneous components. Then, I am wondering about the best
> modelling patterns and I think this could interest different persons on
> this list. The thing is that for some components, there is only few
> variability but they share a lot of common properties/requirements.
> For example, imagine a monitoring system with camera and an audio
> recorder. These devices have some properties and constraints and are
> connected to a network using a 100M ethernet link. The vendor also has the
> SAME devices but with a wireless link.
[...]

Did you tried the prototypes for your purpose?
You could use one to define a generic camera with a requires bus access 
where the kind of bus is provided by a prototype.
When extending the generic camera you provide an ethernet_bus or a wifi_bus.

     Jean-François
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