One pair of pictures in particular helped to convince development managers of the usefulness of platform development. Figure 1 shows various options for creating the software for three products (red blue and magenta) at NXP or at the customer, and without reuse, with opportunistic reuse (shades of green) or with structured reuse (platform, green).

Fig 1. Various options for software development

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