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Seminar by Patricia Derler (Univ. of Berkeley, USA): Ptides, A Model-based Design Approach for Deterministic, Event-driven Real-time Applications
This presentation gives an overview of the Ptides workflow, a model-based design approach for deterministic, event-driven real-time applications. Ptides stands for "Programming Temporally Integrated Distributed Event Systems" and allows for explicit, platform independent specification of functionality and timing. Ptides uses the discrete-event semantics and relates logical (or model time) to physical (or platform time) only at certain points in the model. A simulation environment that allows for execution of Ptides models together with plant models is built into the modeling and simulation tool Ptolemy II. From the specification in the model, code is generated for given target platforms. The generated code includes a lightweight operating system which performs I/O handling and scheduling as well as application specific tasks. Currently, the framework supports code generation for 3 different platforms: a Luminary Micro board, a Renesas board and an XMOS board.
