A UML pro le for the TACO protocol processing platform

The Uni ed Modeling Language (UML) gained increased popularity in recent years for system speci cation. Although intended for software development, UML. cm also bring bene ts to hardware speci cation especially for integration of hardware based platforms with UML methodologies and tools. In this paper we intend to evaluate the bene ts of extending UML to model hardware components and we de ne a UML pro le for a protocol processing platform.