Booch's Physical Diagrams
Draw module and process diagrams to illustrate the physical design of your application. Module diagrams
correspond to UML's component diagrams and process diagrams correspond to
UML's deployment diagrams.
Booch's Physical Diagram Notations
Processor
Processors are hardware pieces that execute programs. Use devices and processors to draw process diagrams.
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Device
Use a device notation to illustrate hardware that is not capable of executing programs.
Modules
A module is a unit of code that serves as a building block for the physical structure of a system. The specification
module contains the declaration of entities and the body module contains the definition of entities.
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Main Module
This module is the main program from which the system is activated.
Subsystem
A subsystem refers to a collection of related modules.
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