Development cost and size estimation starting from high-level specifications
Additional information
Authors
Fornaciari W.,
Salice F.,
Bondi U.,
Magini E.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2001
Language
English
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modifications to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of reusing VHDL-based designs, are presented. The proposed approach has been formalized using an approach similar to the COCOMO analysis strategy, enhanced by a project size prediction methodology based on a VHDL function point metric. The proposed design size estimation methodology has been validated through a significant benchmark. The LEON-I microprocessor, whose VHDL description is of public domain.
Conference proceedings
CODES ''01: Proceedings of the ninth international symposium on Hardware/software codesign
Publisher
ACM Press, New York, USA
Start page number
86
End page number
91
Meeting place
Copenhagen, Denmark
ISBN
1-58113-364-2
Keywords
concurrent engineering, design reuse, process management, project size estimation, VHDL
