Set the Context for Universal Domination in a DFD
Happy Star Wars day 2017
Whatever your Systems Engineering tasks you can use diagrams to illustrate the various components. In classic functional modelling the Essential domain shows the operational, theoretical, side of the design, and the Implementation domain models the actual real world components.
The Context Diagram shows the entire system or subsystem as one process with the exchanges of information between it and its environment. In today’s example, this is the ‘Death Star‘ , the external environment being the universe!
From the context diagram a set of hierarchical Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) give a view of units of functionality and the exchanges of data between these units. So we would expect DFDs covering the Emperor’s Tower, Surface City, Superlaser Focus Lens and so on. So May the Fourth Be With you, and all your modelling.