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• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Realtime  (209)

Averest - - 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).

Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate, and the UML - - 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.

Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate, and the UML - - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com.

The Esterel Synchronous Programming Language: Design, Semantics, Implementation - - 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.

Lustre - - 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.

The Multi-Paradigm Synchronous Programming Language LEA - - 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.

SyncCharts - - 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.

Synchronous - - A "synchronous" team at the Verimag laboratory. Presentation, people. Research topics includes language design. Publications and tools.

The Synchronous Programming Language Signal: A Tutorial - - 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.

Synchronous Programming of Reactive Systems - - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com.

Synchronous Programming of Reactive Systems - - 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.

Unification of Synchronous and Asynchronous Models for Parallel Programming Languages - - Thesis proposing parallel language, based on C, that lets programmers explicitly specify and manage parallelism on a broad class of architectures. [Purdue University.