Systems and methods for arbitrary software logic modeling

Abstract

According to some embodiments, an Arbitrary Software Logic Modeling ("ASLM") data source 110 may store electronic records associated with units, each electronic record including a unit identifier, oneor more identification tags, context data, unit parameters, unit variables, and internal logic. An ASLM platform 150 may express system requirements at a logic block level and establish the logic blocks as self-contained entities and connections in accordance with the system requirements (the established logic blocks graphically representing systems logic). The ASLM platform 150 may then explicitly transform the systems logic automatically to output language agnostic common design information exchange model information. The ASLM platform 150 may also translate and maintain traceability amongthe system requirements, common design information exchange model information, and generated code.

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Background technique [0001] In software design, functionality is typically implemented using software source code, such as functions, procedures, or routines. This is true for both programmatic and object-oriented design, however, in the latter, these are often referred to as "methods". As used herein, these entities are collectively referred to as "functions." Functions can be used, for example, to implement low-level functionality as simple as a single mathematical operation and high-level functionality to control components of larger systems. As used herein, the term "unit" may refer to a software unit similar to a function. Note that units are not necessarily based on source code, but may instead be based on models, to represent partitions of functionality of similar scope. The process of manually modeling the internal logic (eg, algorithm) of any given arbitrary structure of a single cell and / or a large number of cells can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and expensiv...

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Activity diagrams, as commonly used in Unified Modeling Language ("UML")-based modeling, are only useful when designing a new software system from scratch using highly discrete classes, and, for existing arbitrary logic, there may be no help

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