Platform-based design

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Platform-based design is a design approach emphasizing systematic reuse, for developing complex products based upon platforms and compatible hardware and software virtual component, intended to reduce development risks, costs and time to market.Brian Bailey, Grant Martin and Thomas Anderson, Taxonomies for the Development and Verification of Digital Systems, Springer (2005) {{ISBN|0-387-24019-5}}

A platform is a library of components that can be assembled to generate a design at that level of abstraction. The platform-based design starts at the highest level of abstraction and carries out the design as a sequence of refinement steps at various levels of abstractions.{{Cite web |last=Sangiovanni-Vincentelli |first=Alberto |title=System Level Design: a Platform-Based Approach |url=https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/projects/chess/design/2012/references/Book_Chapter1_2_3.pdf}}