Universal Serial Bus System Architecture (PC System Architecture Series)

What is software system architecture?

Software system architecture is collection of viewpoints. The types of viewpoints depends on the type of systems. Software system architecture for a typical web application contains information and functional views primarily focuses on the structural (or static) representation of the system and the deployment, concurrency and operational views[...]

What is software system architecture?

Software system architecture is collection of viewpoints. The types of viewpoints depends on the type of systems. Software system architecture for a typical web application contains information and functional views primarily focuses on the structural (or static) representation of the system and the deployment, concurrency and operational views are the[...]

Is it a bird Is it a building? No! It’s a bus!

This post is part of a series based on the book Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond. One of the first sections (page xix) is about the picture on the front cover which shows a rather nice sketch of a birds wing. The section discusses the[...]

Conway’s Law

The Wikipedia community describes Conway’s Law like this; I paraphrase it like this: if the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins. The organizational divides are going to drive the true seams in the system.[...]

How different architects work together to define software system architecture?

The involvement of various architects in the system architecture definition process is given in the responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) in the table 1. All the architects work together to define the software system architect. Table 1. RAM for architects. Architect IV FV CV Dev.V DV OV SA C[...]