1. A development system for an integrated circuit of hardware objects, comprising: a library of descriptions of a plurality of hardware objects, at least two of the plurality of hardware objects each having a data communication interface structured to operate on message packets, the data communication interfaces of the at least two of the plurality of hardware objects having relatively similar electrical loading characteristics; and a modeler that references the library and is structured to accept a command to create an instance of any one of the descriptions, and to accept a command to link two or more of the created instances.