Physical interface - 3SE

Approved

https://www.3se.info/3se-onto/terms/physical-interface-3se-069bd66fb639714a

Part of a system element interface responsible for defining the resources to carrying out the functional interface of the system element, by exchanging flows with other physical elements of the system and/or enabling system physical elements and/or actors.

Classification

flowchart TD N1["Physical interface"]:::current N2["Two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary"] N3["Hardware block interface"] N4["Hardware interface"] N5["Software component interface"] N6["Software interface"] N1 -->|subclass of| N2 N3 -->|subclass of| N1 N4 -->|subclass of| N1 N5 -->|subclass of| N1 N6 -->|subclass of| N1 classDef current fill:#e8f4f8,stroke:#2980b9,stroke-width:2px

Allocations

flowchart TD N1["Physical interface"]:::current N2["Physical interface attribute"] N3["Functional interface attribute"] N4["System architecture constraint"] N5["Functional interface"] N6["Flow"] N7["Exchange"] N8["Flow attribute"] N9["System non-functional requirement"] N10["Safety flow"] N11["Security flow"] N12["Parameter flow"] N13["Safety parameter flow"] N14["Security parameter flow"] N15["System element interface"] N16["System element interface variant"] N1 -.->|allocates| N2 N2 -.->|allocates| N3 N3 -.->|allocates| N4 N2 -.->|allocates| N4 N1 -.->|allocates| N5 N5 -.->|allocates| N6 N6 -.->|allocates| N7 N6 -.->|allocates| N8 N8 -.->|allocates| N9 N5 -.->|allocates| N10 N5 -.->|allocates| N11 N5 -.->|allocates| N12 N5 -.->|allocates| N13 N5 -.->|allocates| N14 N5 -.->|allocates| N3 N5 -.->|allocates| N4 N1 -.->|allocates| N4 N15 -.->|allocates| N1 N16 -.->|allocates| N1 classDef current fill:#e8f4f8,stroke:#2980b9,stroke-width:2px

Relations

Relatedflow-3se-069bc4ea53207933  ·  system-interface-breakdown-structure-3se-069cd5b860b47815  ·  system-3se-069b85f238f3792d  ·  system-element-3se-069b85f238fb79eb  ·  physical-architecture-3se-069b9d2c8dc67374  ·  system-req-breakdown-structure-3se-069ee3cda6097bec  ·  actor-3se-069c1a2fb8cb746f
Subclass oftwo-dimensional-continuant-fiat-boundary-bfo-2-0-069f666ab5477991
Superclass ofhardware-block-interface-3se-069dc15cd0dc7340  ·  hardware-interface-3se-069bd66fb6017920  ·  software-component-interface-3se-069dc11872d97b8a  ·  software-interface-3se-069bd66fb64b7c7c
Allocatesphysical-interface-attribute-3se-069ebbb4e6e37c25  ·  functional-interface-3se-069bc53af258726b  ·  system-architecture-constraint-3se-069c957ec9bf7e49
Allocated bysystem-element-interface-3se-069cd5b860d1741a  ·  system-element-interface-variant-3se-06a8873e387a7790
Boundssite-3se-06a95e75a9b67094
Responsible rolesystem-architect-3se-069c451bef267e68
Conveysexchange-3se-069bc4ea5316749f
Has variantphysical-interface-variant-3se-06a8873e37cb7f1e
Related matchphysical-port-arcadia-2023-069bd66fb642700a

JSON-LD

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Raw JSON-LD: index.jsonld

Created 2026-03-20  ·  Modified 2026-10-24  ·  by @rcasteran