Artifact: Configuration Specification

A controlled group of elements which represent some state of the design, library or IP Block.

Purpose

Enables a group of items to be identified, referenced and used across different stakeholders. Enables identification and control of changes, such as from revision (changes) or for variants (with optional or alternative functionality or performance).

Relationships

Roles	Responsible:	Modified By: Analog Designer Design Authority
Tasks	Input To: Approve Library Perform Analog Design Review Design, Library and Cells	Output From: Identify Design and Library Configuration Perform Analog Design

Description

Main Description

Configuration occurs in multiple places and at multiple levels of granularity with varying levels of business control. In addition certain additional control of updates to configurations is needed to allow parallel working within the constraints of processes and tools. For instance designers may be working concurrently in tools that do not allow work to be merged and differences resolved easily, this is more typical in electronic design tools and so care but be taken to provide configuration control schemes. The IBM practices provide such examples.

Within the detailed design management scenario the work flow allow for the correct identification of configurations to start from, prior definition of the target configuration (place holder) is optional, control of (check out and check in from) editing and control of referenced configuration during work and identification (marking) of released configuration.

Tailoring

Representation Options	Represented by identity, state descriptors such as variant configuration parameters, compositional descriptions (includes), business control parameters (e.g. immutable baseline), business significance indicators (release R, baseline B, latest, main, milestone M, snapshot date:time ).