TY  - CONF
AU  - Mari, Federico
AU  - Melatti, Igor
AU  - Salvo, Ivano
AU  - Tronci, Enrico
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011//
TI  - From Boolean Relations to Control Software
BT  - Proceedings of ICSEA 2011, The Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
SP  - 528
EP  - 533
PB  - ThinkMind
AB  - Many software as well digital hardware automatic synthesis methods define the set of implementations meeting the given system specifications with a boolean relation K. In such a context a fundamental step in the software (hardware) synthesis process is finding effective solutions to the functional equation defined by K. This entails finding a (set of) boolean function(s) F (typically represented using OBDDs, Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams) such that: 1) for all x for which K is satisfiable, K(x, F(x)) = 1 holds; 2) the implementation of F is efficient with respect to given implementation parameters such as code size or execution time. While this problem has been widely studied in digital hardware synthesis, little has been done in a software synthesis context. Unfortunately the approaches developed for hardware synthesis cannot be directly used in a software context. This motivates investigation of effective methods to solve the above problem when F has to be implemented with software. In this paper we present an algorithm that, from an OBDD representation for K, generates a C code implementation for F that has the same size as the OBDD for F and a WCET (Worst Case Execution Time) linear in nr, being n = |x| the number of input arguments for functions in F and r the number of functions in F.
SN  - 978-1-61208-165-6
L1  - http://mclab.di.uniroma1.it/publications/papers/mari/2011/14_Mari_etal2011.pdf
UR  - http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=icsea_2011_23_10_10186
N1  - Best Paper Award
ID  - Mari_etal2011
ER  -