CMU CS 15-675 Architectures for Software Systems Spring 1997

The papers:

[SG96]: Chapter 3, Section 2.

Hints:

The purpose of the readings is to illustrate the notion of a product-line architecture, and to show how the Pipe & Filter Style can be applied in an industrial context. It also focuses on the need to specialize general, pure styles to handle special requirements of the product domain.

Questions:

1. What problem frame does the oscilloscope fit into? State briefly why.

2. Why was a layered system rejected for the architecture of the system?

3. The archtitecture adopted by the oscilloscope designers departs from the general model of Pipe & Filter ways in at least two important ways. What were these?

4. Why was it felt necessary to introduce a richer vocabulary of pipes (i.e., ``colored pipes'') than is usually associated with a Pipe & Filter system?

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