Synchronous structures

  • Authors:
  • David Nowak

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Center for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Synchronous languages have been designed to ease the development of reactive systems, by providing a methodological framework for assisting system designers from the early stages of requirement specifications to the final stages of code generation or circuit production. Synchronous languages enable a very high-level specification and an extremely modular design of complex reactive systems by structural decomposition of them into elementary processes. We define an order-theoretical model that gives a unified mathematical for-malisation of all the above aspects of the synchronous methodology and characterises the essentials of the synchronous paradigm.