Designing the system architecture and allocating requirements to hardware and software elements, then the software and hardware architectures with their static and dynamic views, interfaces, resource budgets and design decisions with the alternatives considered, each evaluated against agreed criteria and traced to the requirements it implements.
This stage with its neighbours. Each row is a discipline active here, shaded by how mature its work is by the end of each stage.
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