The SPaCIFY project, which aims at bringing advances in MDE to the satellite flight software industry, advocates a top-down approach built on a domain-specific modeling language named Synoptic. In line with previous approaches to real-time modeling such as Statecharts and Simulink, Synoptic features hierarchical decomposition of application and control modules in synchronous block diagrams and state machines. Its semantics is described in the polychronous model of computation, which is that of the synchronous language Signal.
@article{arxiv.1003.0554,
title = {Polychronous Interpretation of Synoptic, a Domain Specific Modeling Language for Embedded Flight-Software},
author = {L. Besnard and T. Gautier and J. Ouy and J. -P. Talpin and J. -P. Bodeveix and A. Cortier and M. Pantel and M. Strecker and G. Garcia and A. Rugina and J. Buisson and F. Dagnat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0554},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Workshop on Formal Methods for Aerospace (FMA 2009)