Automated Prototyping and Data Translation

This paper describes the transformations used to produce an executable prototype from a very high level description of a software system in a computer-aided prototyping process. The high level description can include real-time constraints, which are difficult to treat using conventional compiler technology. The prototyping system uses two different sets of transformations, one for realizing data flow diagrams and the other for realizing hard real-time constraints. The transformations are implemented with the aid of an automatic translater generator