At the highest abstraction levels, we setup overall system simulations to translate emerging standards and new scientific principles into living system specifications. Our broad view on alternative implementation methods, hardware platforms, interface methods, application aspects and testability allow us to make optimal choices in system architecture and hardware/software partitioning. Depending on the customer requirements, the deliverables can exist as a pure software simulator, as a PC-based testbed or as real-time fully optimised hardware solutions.