A survey on systems architecture development and a helicopter communication system conceptual design

A system is commonly defined to be a collection of hardware, software, people, and procedures organized to accomplish some common objectives. These objectives are required by the stakeholders of the system. Systems are not developed at a point in time. The system development process to bring a system into being and into operational use from user requirements, requires a systems development life cycle approach that includes analysis, design, implementation, integration, maintenance and retirement. To obtain efficient systems, in the design process of the system, system?s architecture is built to manage to prevent design conflicts and undesired solutions. System?s architecting contributes to the development of a system from its initial concept until its retirement from use in this life cycle process.This thesis mainly focuses on system?s architecture design context and systems architecture design methodologies. In the first chapter of the study, system development life cycle models and system?s architecting design process is introduced. In addition, the context of the systems architecure is explained. In the next chapter, Structured Architecture Methodology and Object Oriented Architecture Methodology are introduced and explained. In the last chapter the study is concluded by architecting a communication system of an attack helicopter by Structured Systems Architecture Methodology.Key Terms: Systems Architecture Context, Systems Architecture Methodologies, Structured Architecture Methodology, Object-Oriented Architecture Methodology