====== ITU-T Specification and Description Language (SDL) ======
===== Free and Affordable Commercial SDL Tools =====
  *The OpenSource tools [[http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/SITE/|Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin "SITE - SDL Integrated Tool Environment)"]] for Linux, Windows.
  *The affordable commercial [[http://www.edrawsoft.com/SDL-Diagrams.php|EDrawSoft EDraw Max]] for Windows - "SDL Diagram Software".
  *The software [[http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/gdpa/|University of Bremen, Faculty 3 - Computer Science "Graphical Development Process Assistant" ( GDPA )]], for use with the "V-Modell XT".
    *[[http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/gdpa/methods/m-sdl.htm|University of Bremen, Faculty 3 - Computer Science, GDPA "Methods Allocation Annex 1. 5.8.2.3 Specification and Description Language (SDL), (SBM Part)"]].
===== Commercial SDL Tools =====
  *[[http://www.cinderella.dk/|Cinderella ApS "Cinderella SDL"]].
  *The commercial [[http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/sdlsuite/|IBM Rational SDL Suite]].
  *[[http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-sdl/|Paul Herber's Sandrila Ltd "Sandrila SDL for SDL-2000, MSC-2000, TTCN, URN, UML and UML2"]].
===== Some other Non-SDL Tools =====
  *The commercial [[http://www.eventhelix.com/|EventHelix "EventStudio System Designer"]] for Windows - free 45 days trial version. It can be used to design call flow diagrams ( e.g. an "ISUP to ISUP call" ), which is not part of the SDL language, but which is used in system design for telecommuncations.
===== Resources =====
  *[[http://www.sdl-forum.org/|SDL Forum]].
    *[[http://sdl-forum.org/Tools/Shareware.htm|SDL Forum "Public Domain/Shareware"]].
    *[[http://sdl-forum.org/Tools/Commercial.htm|SDL Forum "Commercial Tools"]].
  *[[http://www.sdl-rt.org/|Emmanuel Gaudin "Specification & Description Language - Real Time ( SDL-RT )"]].
  *[[http://eig.unige.ch/lii/Fichiers_Distr/SYR/Telelogic.pdf|University of Applied Science HES-S, Laboratoire d'informatique industrielle "Telelogic - Specification and Description Language (SDL)"]] ( PDF ).
  *[[http://www.sdl-forum.org/|[Belina Hogrefe "SDL Forum Society"]].     
    *[[http://www.sdl-forum.org/sdl88tutorial/|Belina Hogrefe "Tutorial on SDL-88"]].
  *[[http://www.sintef.no/time/|SINTEF "TIMe : The Integrated Method"]] -> SINTEF report "Using UML for architectual design of SDL systems".
  *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_Language|EN.Wikipedia "Specification and Description Language"]], [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_Language|DE.Wikipedia "Specification and Description Language"]].
===== Forums, Newsgroups, Communities =====
  *[[http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1155067|LinkedIn "SDL Users"]].
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