摘要
The use of multi-core processors will become a trend in safety critical systems. For safe execution of multi- threaded code, automatic code generation from formal spec- ification is a desirable method. Signal, a synchronous lan- guage dedicated for the functional description of safety crit- ical systems, provides soundness semantics for determinis- tic concurrency. Although sequential code generation of Sig- nal has been implemented in Polychrony compiler, deter- ministic multi-threaded code generation strategy is still far from mature. Moreover, existing code generation methods use certain multi-thread library, which limits the cross plat- form executions. OpenMP is an application program inter- face (API) standard for parallel programming, supported by several mainstream compilers from different platforms. This paper presents a methodology translating Signal program to OpenMP-based multi-threaded C code. First, the intermedi- ate representation of the core syntax of Signal using syn- chronous guarded actions is defined. Then, according to the compositional semantics of Signal equations, the Signal pro- gram is synthesized to dependency graph (DG). After par- allel tasks are extracted from dependency graph, the Signal program can be finally translated into OpenMP-based C code which can be executed on multiple platforms.
The use of multi-core processors will become a trend in safety critical systems. For safe execution of multi- threaded code, automatic code generation from formal spec- ification is a desirable method. Signal, a synchronous lan- guage dedicated for the functional description of safety crit- ical systems, provides soundness semantics for determinis- tic concurrency. Although sequential code generation of Sig- nal has been implemented in Polychrony compiler, deter- ministic multi-threaded code generation strategy is still far from mature. Moreover, existing code generation methods use certain multi-thread library, which limits the cross plat- form executions. OpenMP is an application program inter- face (API) standard for parallel programming, supported by several mainstream compilers from different platforms. This paper presents a methodology translating Signal program to OpenMP-based multi-threaded C code. First, the intermedi- ate representation of the core syntax of Signal using syn- chronous guarded actions is defined. Then, according to the compositional semantics of Signal equations, the Signal pro- gram is synthesized to dependency graph (DG). After par- allel tasks are extracted from dependency graph, the Signal program can be finally translated into OpenMP-based C code which can be executed on multiple platforms.