Control Generation for Embedded Systems Based on Composition of Modal Processes

Abstract

In traditional distributed embedded system designs control information is often replicated across several processes and kept coherent by application-specific mechanisms Consequently processes cannot be reused in a new system without tailoring the code to deal with the new system control information. The modal process framework provides a high-level way to specify the coherence of replicated control information independently of the behavior of the processes Thus multiple processes can be composed without internal tailoring and without suffering from errors common in lower-level specification styles This paper first describes a kernel-language representation for the high-level composition operators; it also presents a synthesis algorithm for the mode manager, the runtime code that maintains control information coherence within and between distributed processors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA416531

Entities

People

  • Gaetano Borriello
  • Ken Hines
  • Kurt Partridge
  • Pai Chou

Organizations

  • University of Washington

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Birds
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Consistency
  • Data Processing
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Embedded Systems
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Hard Copy
  • Intellectual Property
  • Language
  • Optimization
  • Semantics
  • Sensitivity
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development