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David Fuller. "Graphical System Design". Talk or presentation, 26, September, 2007.

Abstract
The number of domain experts developing embedded systems has increased significantly in the last few years. Development tools must evolve to enable domain experts to analyze their problems rapidly, and then design, prototype and deploy solutions. We have found that graphical programming and graphical system modelling are very useful for this purpose and that with these graphical methodologies, end users can easily design and program systems composed of FPGAs and embedded processors for control and measurement applications.rnrnWe will present the lessons we have learned developing graphical design tools and we will share our vision of how such tools may evolve into higher-level engineering suites focused on the graphical creation of embedded and industrial systems. We will discuss the visual modelling of relationships between software and hardware resources, the relationship of structured dataflow to other Models of Computation, the limits of structured dataflow, how we plan to address these limits, and how we plan to model the relationships between time and order.rnrnTo demonstrate our results and future vision, we will use LabVIEW, which has evolved over the last twenty years into the most popular graphical programming language for Test and Measurement applications, and early prototypes of our next generation environment, recently developed in our labs.

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  @presentation{Fuller07_GraphicalSystemDesign,
      author = {David Fuller},
      title = {Graphical System Design},
      day = {26},
      month = {September},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {The number of domain experts developing embedded
                systems has increased significantly in the last
                few years. Development tools must evolve to enable
                domain experts to analyze their problems rapidly,
                and then design, prototype and deploy solutions.
                We have found that graphical programming and
                graphical system modelling are very useful for
                this purpose and that with these graphical
                methodologies, end users can easily design and
                program systems composed of FPGAs and embedded
                processors for control and measurement
                applications.rnrnWe will present the lessons we
                have learned developing graphical design tools and
                we will share our vision of how such tools may
                evolve into higher-level engineering suites
                focused on the graphical creation of embedded and
                industrial systems. We will discuss the visual
                modelling of relationships between software and
                hardware resources, the relationship of structured
                dataflow to other Models of Computation, the
                limits of structured dataflow, how we plan to
                address these limits, and how we plan to model the
                relationships between time and order.rnrnTo
                demonstrate our results and future vision, we will
                use LabVIEW, which has evolved over the last
                twenty years into the most popular graphical
                programming language for Test and Measurement
                applications, and early prototypes of our next
                generation environment, recently developed in our
                labs.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/355.html}
  }
  

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