From lechner@cs.uml.edu  Mon Mar  7 15:49:40 2005
From: Bob Lechner <lechner@cs.uml.edu>
Subject: [RTOS]Code Generation for Embedded Systems - ACMTechNews050302 (fwd)
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   sfrye@cs.uml.edu (Scot Frye), mmulaka@cs.uml.edu (Mallika Mulakaluri),
   normgross@yahoo.com (Norm Gross), smalladi@envoyww.com, lmalladi@cs.uml.edu,
   harshjha82@yahoo.com, hjha@cs.uml.edu, kevincy@netscape.net,
   kyang@cs.uml.edu, lechner@cs.uml.edu (Bob Lechner)

This author just said much the same thing in 
DrDobbs Jrnl Apr 2005(58-63): 
SW Synthesis for OS-independent coding.
RJLRef: SWSynthesis4EmbeddedSystems.txt

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> Subject: [RTOS]Code Generation for Embedded Systems - ACMTechNews050302
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:53:14 -0500 (EST)
> 
> "Software Synthesis for Embedded Systems"
> //www.acm.org/technews/articles/2005-7/0302w.html#item4 
> 
> Embedded Systems Programming (02/05) Vol. 18, No. 2, P. 36; Zeidman, Bob 
> 
> Zeidman Technologies founder Bob Zeidman suggests that now is the time 
to take an evolutionary step in embedded systems software design 
by automatically generating or synthesizing software. 
> 
> He recommends that software engineers take a cue from hardware 
engineers, who expedited chip design by developing hardware-description 
languages in which high-level description that conceals much of the 
hardware's complexity from the designer is written, after which 
low-level description that can be directly mapped to the hardware 
is synthesized. 
> 
> To make a similar breakthrough in software design, Zeidman calls for 
the creation of primitives, which are higher-level constructs that 
describe what kind of code an automatic code generation tool must produce. 
> 
> Applications of software synthesis include the creation of 
complex functions in which the programmer does not need to understand 
the underlying code; the construction of portable programs that can be 
tuned for different processors, hardware platforms, and operating systems; 
and the automation of operating system creation. 
> 
> This last application supports the synthesis of operating systems 
free of superfluous functions and thus able to run on smaller, 
cheaper, and more power-efficient processors. 
> 
> However, Zeidman notes that this application depends on the 
compiler optimizing the low-level machine code. 
> 
> Field-programmable gate arrays could also benefit from software 
synthesis, which can support the creation of small, reliable, and 
relatively simple operating systems for every processor on the chip. 
> 
> Zeidman concludes that analysis and optimization of embedded systems, 
as well as experimentation with such systems, could be dramatically 
expanded via software synthesis.
> 
> to View Full Article :
> 
> http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57702593 
> 
> Field-programmable gate arrays could also benefit from software synthesis, 
which can support the creation of small, reliable, and relatively simple 
operating systems for every processor on the chip. 
Zeidman concludes that analysis and optimization of embedded systems, 
as well as experimentation with such systems, could be dramatically 
expanded via software synthesis.
>