ITU-T Rec. Z.100 Annex D (11/1988) – SDL USER GUIDELINES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
D.1 Preface
D.2 Introduction
D.2.1 General overview of SDL
D.2.2 Syntax forms of SDL
D.2.3 Applicability of SDL
D.3 Basic concepts of SDL
D.3.1 System
D.3.2 Blocks
D.3.3 Channels
D.3.4 Signals
D.3.5 Signal routes
D.3.6 System and block diagrams
D.3.7 Comments and text extension
D.3.8 Processes
D.3.9 Procedures
D.3.10 Data handling
D.3.11 Expressing time in SDL
D.3.12 Qualifiers usage
D.3.13 Syntax of names
D.4 Structuring and refining SDL systems
D.4.1 General
D.4.2 Criteria for partitioning
D.4.3 Block partitioning
D.4.4 Block tree diagram
D.4.5 Channel partitioning
D.4.6 System representation in case of partitioning
D.4.7 Refinement
D.5 Additional concepts
D.5.1 Macros
D.5.2 Generic systems
D.5.3 Services
D.5.4 Guidelines for state-oriented representation and pictorial elements
D.5.5 Auxiliary diagrams
D.6 Definition of SDL data
D.6.1 Guidelines on data in SDL
D.6.2 Generators and inheritance
D.6.3 Views on equations
D.6.4 Features
D.7 Additional guidelines for drawing and writing
D.7.1 SDL/GR guidelines
D.7.2 SDL/PR guidelines
D.8 Documentation
D.8.1 Introduction
D.8.2 Types of system representation
D.8.3 Document structure
D.8.4 Referencing mechanism
D.8.5 Classification of documents
D.8.6 Mixing of SDL/GR and SDL/PR
D.9 Mappings
D.9.1 Mapping between SDL and CHILL
D.9.2 Mapping between GR and PR
D.10 Application examples
D.10.1 Introduction
D.10.2 The service concept
D.11 Tools for SDL
D.11.1 Introduction
D.11.2 Classes of tools
D.11.3 Document input
D.11.4 Document verification
D.11.5 Document reproduction
D.11.6 Document generation
D.11.7 System modelling and analysis
D.11.8 Code generation
D.11.9 Training