Specification and Description Language (SDL)

For people in the field of systems engineering or system design, working with specification and description language (sdl) and finite state machines (fsm).

Specification and Description Language (SDL)

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"Architecture.
An SDL system is made of functional blocks and each block can be further decomposed in sub-blocks. The lowest level block is composed of one or several process described as finite state machines." [Specification and Description Language. Wikipedia]
The diagram example "SDL Architecture" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Specification and Description Language (SDL) solution from the Engineering area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

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Specification and Description Language (SDL) diagram

Specification and Description Language (SDL) is intended to describe systems that switched state often and rapidly. An SDL diagram is a view of system, that can depict a single process, or complex relationships between a number of elements. The SDL diagram supports a nested hierarchy. A system is devided into blocks, each of them can be describes as a process, until finally one can see the initial procedures that make up each process. The advantage of this method is that a system can be viewed in manageable part thatcan be followed separately. ConceptDraw Specification and Description Language solution contains the library, with a SDL notation in a vector stencil graphics. The SDL solution also provides a set of samples, to show the level of hierarchical detail that is possible.

FSM — Finite-state Machine

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