Quality-Driven Decision Making in Digital System Design

Digital system design is a competitive business, with high complexity and a multi-aspect character. Together with nowadays increasing demand of application-and customer-specific embedded systems, suiting supporting design techniques and tools are needed. We are considering the concept of quality within digital system design in order to assure that the systems designed comply as much as possible with the requirements of their future customers. Aim of the paper is to provide and discuss backgrounds, ideas, and direction for future work in the field of quality-driven design decision making.