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design¶
the process or the result of the process to define the architecture, system elements, interfaces, and other characteristics of a system or system element
Clause: 3.1.15.1
EXAMPLE: Example: Complete documentation for building a specific model of a smartphone
Note 1 to entry: Design provides the detailed implementation-level physical structure, behaviour, temporal relationships, and other attributes of system elements. It is information including specification of system elements and their relationships, that is sufficiently complete to support a compliant implementation of the architecture,
Source: ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2017, definitions 1 and 2 merged, example added
History note: Introduced in ISO/TS 14812:2025