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Synchronous programming languages are optimized for programming reactive systems, systems that are often interrupted and must respond quickly. Many such systems are also called realtime systems.
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Averest
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A set of tools for the specification, verification, and implementation of reactive systems. It includes a compiler for synchronous programs, a symbolic model checker, and a tool for hardware/software synthesis. Downloadable in binary form for Linux (i586).
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Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate, and the UML
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By R.J. Wieringa; Morgan Kaufmann, 2002, ISBN 1558607552. Shows how techniques and approaches of 3 most popular design methods can be mixed in flexible, problem-driven way; more examples on companion website. [Morgan Kaufmann]
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Lustre
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Declarative synchronous language, kernel language of SCADE (was SAO+/SAGA) industrial environment developed by Esterel Technologies; a description is a set of equations that must be verified always by program variables. [Verimag]
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SyncCharts
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Graphical formalism (name of model, a syncChart is an instance) dedicated to reactive system modeling. Many features inherited from StateCharts, Argos. Brief introduction, related publications, distribution, downloads.
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Synchronous
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A "synchronous" team at the Verimag laboratory. Presentation, people. Research topics includes language design. Publications and tools.
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Synchronous Programming of Reactive Systems
NEW!
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Book by Nicolas Halbwachs (1992) which presents a synthesis of recent works on reactive system design, a term introduced to avoid ambiguities often involved with term realtime. Outline, table of contents, reviews.
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The Esterel Synchronous Programming Language: Design, Semantics, Implementation
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Abstract on paper on reactive kernels making the central, hardest part of reactive systems; Esterel is not full language, it is a program generator used to program reactive kernels as YACC programs parsers from grammars. [ResearchIndex]
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The Multi-Paradigm Synchronous Programming Language LEA
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To program synchronous reactive systems, made by merging 3 existing synchronous languages (Lustre, Esterel, Argos) by uniform translation rules to a common intermediate format called Boolean automata. Paper, PDF format.
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The Synchronous Programming Language Signal: A Tutorial
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For this declarative language, for realtime uses: reactive, embedded systems. Synchronous languages are opposite to the asynchronous types, as in C, Ada. Five chapters. Paper, PDF format.
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Unification of Synchronous and Asynchronous Models for Parallel Programming Languages
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Thesis proposing parallel language, based on C, that lets programmers explicitly specify and manage parallelism on a broad class of architectures. [Purdue University]
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