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System semantics is the description of system properties by means of semantic functions. For a given formal description of the considered system, different semantic functions describe different properties of interest. As a formalism for language definition, system semantics also provides very useful guidance in the design of system description languages (SDLs), in particular the matching of language conctructs to system concepts in a way that yields useful formal properties for reasoning and formal manipulation.
This paper explains the basic formalism of system semantics and illustrates the application to the description of digital circuits and analog circuits. The existence of useful formal properties is illustrated by showing that theorems of switching theory or electrical network theory can be expressed as conversion rules in the language.
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Boute, R.T. (1987). An introduction to system semantics. In: Kündig, A., Bührer, R.E., Dähler, J. (eds) Embedded Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 284. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0016348
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