From: petcher@skvax2.csc.ti.com
Subject: Topdown design
Date: 28 Feb 89 13:28:04 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8902281333.AA26629@ti.com> (raw)
> Something that neither one of you guys addressed, and that I think is
> crucial to the whole "Top-Down Design" issue, is reusability.
> Top-down design implies leaves that are custom made for the program
> at hand. Reusability implies molding the problem definition around
> leaf (and maybe not-so-leaf) modules that are already available.
> After all, for a hardware design, you wouldn't design your own ICs,
> would you?
Top-down design need not be incompatible with re-usability. The key is to do
only the design in a top-down fasion, followed by bottom-up implementation.
Malcolm Petcher
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