Synchronous Programming, and its use for Modeling Non-synchronous Systems
Professor Nicolas Halbwachs (VERIMAG Laboratory, France)

Synchronous languages are now widely used for programming safety critical embedded systems. Dedicated validation methods and tools have been developed for these formalisms. For instance, the Scade toolset, based on the synchronous data-flow language Lustre and developed by Esterel-Technologies, is used worldwide, in particular in avionics.

In this talk, we will first recall the principles of the synchronous paradigm. In a second part, we will show how synchronous formalisms can be used for modeling non synchronous systems, taking advantage of their associated tools for early simulation and validation of these systems. In the European integrated project ASSERT, we developed a translator from the architecture description language AADL to Lustre, allowing the joint modeling and simulation of software components (described with Scade or Lustre) and the implementation architecture on which these components are intended to run. As a case study, the methodology was applied to a very critical part of the control system of the "automatic transfer vehicule" (ATV), a spacecraft developed by Astrium.

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