Ø  Common design environmentacross pro ject teams

Ø  Design directly linked torequirements

Ø  Design and testing is a continuousprocess to identify errors at an earlystage

Ø  Algorithms are refined through simulation

Ø  Automatic code generation

Ø  Reuse of designs to deploy systems across multipleprocessors and hardware targets

Ø  Reuse and test suites

Ø  Automatically generating documentation