@Article{Mari_etal2012,
author="Mari, Federico
and Melatti, Igor
and Salvo, Ivano
and Tronci, Enrico",
editor="Luigi Lavazza",
title="Synthesizing Control Software from Boolean Relations",
journal="International Journal on Advances in Software",
year="2012",
publisher="IARIA",
volume="vol. 5, nr 3{\&}4",
pages="212--223",
optkeywords="Control Software Synthesis; Embedded Systems; Model Checking",
abstract="Many software as well digital hardware automaticsynthesis methods define the set ofimplementations meeting the given systemspecifications with a boolean relation K. Insuch a context a fundamental step in the software(hardware) synthesis process is finding effectivesolutions to the functional equation defined byK.  This entails finding a (set of) booleanfunction(s) F  (typically represented usingOBDDs, Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams)such that: 1) for all x for which K issatisfiable, K(x, F(x)) = 1 holds; 2) theimplementation of F is efficient  with respectto given implementation parameters such as codesize or execution time. While this problem hasbeen widely studied in digital hardware synthesis,little has been done in a software synthesiscontext.  Unfortunately, the approaches developedfor hardware synthesis cannot be directly used ina software context. This motivates investigationof effective methods to solve the above problemwhen F has to be implemented with software. Inthis paper, we present an algorithm that, from anOBDD representation for K, generates a C codeimplementation for F that has the same size asthe OBDD for F and a worst case execution timelinear in nr, being n = |x| the number ofinput arguments for functions in F and r thenumber of functions in F. Moreover, a formalproof of the proposed algorithm correctness isalso shown. Finally, we present experimentalresults showing effectiveness of the proposedalgorithm.",
optnote="exported from refbase (http://mclab.di.uniroma1.it/publications/show.php?record=108), last updated on Thu, 02 May 2013 11:47:27 +0200",
issn="1942-2628",
opturl="http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=soft_v5_n34_2012_6",
file=":http://mclab.di.uniroma1.it/publications/papers/federicomari/2012/108_FedericoMari2012.pdf:PDF"
}