"Real-time Studio matches my real-time design practices and techniques better than other tools I've used — and it's more intuitive. Use case, system architecture (busses, boards, devices, interfaces, etc.) and concurrency models (tasks, queues, devices, etc.) help me to develop an overall strategy, evaluate feasibility, and identify major risk areas. Extended use cases, sequence diagrams, and software architecture diagrams fit in naturally into the process as well. When custom hardware environments are involved it's critical to map tasks and functions onto the appropriate subsystems and nail down the interfaces early in the design cycle -- catching early design oversights can be the difference between success and total failure. Real-time Studio provides modeling support for all these real-time system considerations, and has proven quite easy to adopt."

— Scott McNutt
Systems Architect
Lucent Technologies