Overview
- Presents the best pedagogical illustration of embedded system design with a synchronous programming language
- Offers a language and analysis techniques for the design of multi-clocked embedded systems
- Describes a formal specification language that provides users with design and analysis tools to guarantee the reliability of safety-critical, embedded systems
- Enables "correct-by-construction" designs for modern embedded systems, built on multiprocessor architectures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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I am very pleased to play even a small part in the publication of this book on the SIGNAL language and its environment POLYCHRONY. I am sure it will be a s- ni?cant milestone in the development of the SIGNAL language, of synchronous computing in general, and of the data?ow approach to computation. In data?ow, the computation takes place in a producer–consumer network of - dependent processing stations. Data travels in streams and is transformed as these streams pass through the processing stations (often called ?lters). Data?ow is an attractive model for many reasons, not least because it corresponds to the way p- duction,transportation,andcommunicationare typicallyorganizedin the real world (outside cyberspace). I myself stumbled into data?ow almost against my will. In the mid-1970s, Ed Ashcroft and I set out to design a “super” structured programming language that, we hoped, would radically simplify proving assertions about programs. In the end, we decided that it had to be declarative. However, we also were determined that iterative algorithms could be expressed directly, without circumlocutions such as the use of a tail-recursive function. The language that resulted, which we named LUCID, was much less traditional then we would have liked. LUCID statements are equations in a kind of executable temporallogic thatspecifythe (time)sequencesof variablesinvolvedin aniteration.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Real-Time and Synchronous Programming
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Real-time and synchronous programming
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Elementary Concepts and Notations of SIGNAL
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Elementary concepts and notations of SIGNAL
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Formal Properties of SIGNAL Programs
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Formal properties of SIGNAL programs
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Advanced Design in SIGNAL
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Advanced design in SIGNAL
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Designing Embedded Systems with the SIGNAL Programming Language
Book Subtitle: Synchronous, Reactive Specification
Authors: Abdoulaye Gamatie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0941-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0940-4Published: 16 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8512-5Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0941-1Published: 06 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 259
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design