The difficulty of converting the requirements in an executable model and to
do some kind of HW/SW concurrent engineering, leading to the "magic triple
t" SW+IF+HW, this is the heart of the system design problem. In reviewing t
he main issues related to the system level design phase of embedded systems
, we present an approach based on the Arexsys ArchiMate(TM) and CosiMate(TM
) tool suite.