STATEMATE: A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ACE: an environment for specifying, developing and generating TINA services
Proceedings of the fifth IFIP/IEEE international symposium on Integrated network management V : integrated management in a virtual world: integrated management in a virtual world
Theoretical Computer Science
Communication and Concurrency
A Computer-Aided Prototyping System
IEEE Software
AMAST '98 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
A Front-End Generator for Verification Tools
TACAS '95 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems
The NCSU Concurrency Workbench
CAV '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
A distributed abstract data type implemented by a probabilistic communication scheme
SFCS '80 Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
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Abstract: We present vpl2cxx, a translator that automatically generates efficient, fully distributed C++ code from high-level system designs specified in the mathematically rigorous VPL design language. The Concurrency Workbench of the New Century (CWB-NC) verification tool includes a front end for VPL, and this means designers may use the full range of automatic verification and simulation checks provided by the tool before invoking the translator, thereby generating distributed prototypes from validated specifications. Besides being fully distributed, the code generated by vpl2cxx is highly readable and portable to a host of execution environments and real-time operating systems (RTOSes). This is achieved by encapsulating all generated code dealing with low-level interprocess communication issues in a library for synchronous communication, which in turn is built upon the ACE client-server network programming interface. Finally, benchmarks show that the performance of the generated code is more than acceptable for a distributed prototype. We discuss one such example in the RETHER real-time ethernet protocol for voice and video applications.