@conference {1.371690,
	title = {Development cost and size estimation starting from high-level specifications},
	booktitle = {CODES {\textquoteright}01: Proceedings of the ninth international symposium on Hardware/software codesign},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {86-91},
	publisher = {ACM Press, New York, USA},
	organization = {ACM Press, New York, USA},
	address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
	abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modifications to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of reusing VHDL-based designs, are presented. The proposed approach has been formalized using an approach similar to the COCOMO analysis strategy, enhanced by a project size prediction methodology based on a VHDL function point metric. The proposed design size estimation methodology has been validated through a significant benchmark. The LEON-I microprocessor, whose VHDL description is of public domain.},
	keywords = {concurrent engineering, design reuse, process management, project size estimation, VHDL},
	isbn = {1-58113-364-2},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HSC.2001.924656},
	author = {Fornaciari, William and Salice, Fabio and Bondi, Umberto and Magini, Edi}
}
