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Real-time program development can be split into a machine- independent phase, that deriv es a machine-independent real-time program from a specification, and a machine-dependent phase, that checks that the compiled program will meet its deadlines when executed on the target machine.
In this paper we extend a machine-independent real-time programming language with auxiliary variables. These are introduced to facilitate both reasoning about the correctness of real-time programs and the expression of timing deadlines, and hence the calculation of timing constraints on paths through a program. The auxiliary variable concept is extended to auxiliary parameters to procedures.
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Hayes, I. (2000). Real-Time Program Refinement Using Auxiliary Variables. In: Joseph, M. (eds) Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems. FTRTFT 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1926. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45352-0_15
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