low@melair.UUCP (Rick Low) (05/10/89)
It seems that Ready Systems' CARDtools has become the de facto standard CASE tool for real-time embedded system and software design at my company. I have two questions for anyone who has used this package: 1. What design method does it support? Possible answers I've come up with are a) Hatley, sort of b) Ward-Mellor, sort of c) Ready Systems' own d) anyone/everyone's (it's just a tool box) TFM doesn't say what method is supported; neither does is have any references listed that would give it away. When I read TFMs I get the feeling that the answer is d), but this is never stated. When I ask people here what method they use with CARDtools they say, "Well, just CARDtools, right?" A recent article in Computer Design magazine just said CARDtools supports Ward-Mellor, without really saying how. 2. (really a general CASE question) Is there any size of project for which use of tools like CARDtools is uneconomical? Followups to comp.realtime please. -- Rick Low MEL Defence Systems Limited, Ottawa, Canada +1 613 836 6860 mitel!melair!low@uunet.UU.NET