Patent ID: 7987083

Claim:
A method for constructing an architectural model of a complex electronic system including a plurality of components integrated on a card or a chip, said method comprising: constructing, with a computing device, the functional model of the complex electronic system including a hierarchized set of modelled functional components, constructing, with the computing device, at least one modelled functional router representing an abstract model of a dummy router not having a physical counterpart in the complex electronic system, wherein each modelled functional router is associated to at least three of the modelled functional components and describes all possible interconnections between the respective at least three modelled functional components, wherein all the possible interconnections between the modelled functional components included in the functional model are described by the constructed at least one modelled functional router, constructing a platform model for the complex electronic system including a set of modelled physical components, wherein said platform model of the complex electronic system includes at least one modelled physical router representing an abstract model of a physical router, actually included in the complex electronic system, which describes a set of interconnections between at least two modelled physical components, and distributed mapping of said functional model to said platform model, via distributed assignment of said at least one modelled functional router to said at least one modelled physical router, to obtain an architectural model of said complex system.