Requirements and requirement traceability play a key role in ensuring that embedded
systems meet their goals. This article deals with improving requirements and requirement
traceability to design artifacts in the context of embedded design. We identify a way for
capturing decisions concerning limited resources in embedded systems. This approach
directly integrates decision-related information with other traceability information gathered
during requirements engineering. It relies on the concept of quantifiable budgets for
structuring the decision information (decision model). Upon this model the prototype of a
requirements traceability management tool has been developed reduces redundancies and
inconsistencies in requirements management and lays the ground for improved collaboration
and sharing of project knowledge between project members.