Work Product Slot: HW Design Architecture
The hardware design architecture is the resource architecture on design level. It describes available hardware resources and their interconnection.
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The purpose of the hardware design architecture is to describe available hardware resources and their interconnection..

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The HW design architecture is the resource architecture on design level. It contains a set of hardware components appropriate for the computational needs, communication busses connecting them, power supply, sensors and actuators and their connections.
The top-level structure of such hardware components, both with respect to type and interfaces may be based on functionality, responsibility, legacy, etc. depending on engineering decisions. The internal structure of the components could for instance represent on and off-chip peripherals such as AD converters and amplifiers. If necessary, the hardware architecture may refer to simulation models, or other behavioural models, of the component.
To define the hardware design architecture, type definitions of the included sensors, actuators and hardware elements are defined. HardwareElementPrototypes for each of these and their pins are connected with HWConnectors.
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