Compiling ESTEREL

Designed as the definitive reference on the compilation of the Esterel synchronous reactive real-time language, Compiling Esterel covers all aspects of the language and includes a tutorial, a reference manual, its formal semantics, and detailed technical information about the many techniques used to compile it.

Esterel is based on the simple idea of providing a software language that has a synchronous model of time. That is, the execution of the program is divided into discrete instants, and statements are either guaranteed to execute in a single instant, or take multiple instants as requested by the programmer. Suitable for programming safety-critical real-time systems, Esterel and its model of computation have found use in industrial applications such as avionics, integrated circuit design, and other safety-critical environments.

While Compiling Esterel does not assume prior knowledge of the Esterel language, readers will appreciate having priorknowledge of programming language semantics and compiler technology, along with some familiarity with synchronous digital hardware design.

Researchers as well as advanced developers will find Compiling Esterel essential for understanding Esterel at all levels.

This is the only book devoted completely to Esterel The authors are the people most experienced with Esterel, period. The third author (Berry) designed the language. The first author (Potop) completed his PhD under Berry and has produced the best known Esterel compiler. The second author (Edwards) has been developing Esterel compilers for the last decade The information in the book has largely existed for a while, but in scattered papers and in the minds of the developers Collects all this information, condenses it, and makes it consistent The language has grown mature; this book is a definitive discussion of it

Inhalt
The Esterel Language.- to Esterel.- The Esterel Language.- Formal Semantics.- to Esterel Semantics.- Constructive Behavioral Semantics.- Constructive Operational Semantics.- Constructive Circuit Translation.- Compiling Esterel.- Overview.- The GRC Intermediate Format.- Code Generation from GRC.- The Columbia Compiler.