Elaine Cheong and Jie Liu announced availability of galsC 0.1.0 (alpha) -Christopher
------- Forwarded Message Subject: [Ptolemy] ANNOUNCE: galsC 0.1.0 (alpha) release Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:18:30 -0700 (PDT) We are announcing the alpha release of galsC, a language and compiler for use with the TinyGALS programming model, which uses TinyOS as the underlying component model. galsC is compatible with TinyOS 1.x and nesC 1.1.1. You can use the galsC compiler to compile all your existing TinyOS programs. TinyGALS is a globally asynchronous, locally synchronous model for programming event-driven embedded systems, especially sensor networks. At the local level, software components communicate with each other synchronously via method calls. Components are composed to form actors. At the global level, actors communicate with each other asynchronously via message passing, which separates the flow of control between actors. A complementary model called TinyGUYS is a guarded yet synchronous model designed to allow thread-safe sharing of global state between actors without explicitly passing messages. The TinyGALS programming model is structured such that code for all inter-actor communication, actor triggering mechanisms, and access to guarded global variables can be automatically generated from a high level specification. By raising concurrency concerns above the level of TinyOS components, the TinyGALS programming model allows programmers to focus on the main tasks that the application must execute. Programs developed using this task-oriented model are thread safe and easy to debug. For more information and download instructions, please see: http://galsc.sourceforge.net/ To receive future announcements about galsC, please sign up here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galsc-announce Please visit us at IPSN'04 (Berkeley, California, April 26-27, 2004): http://ipsn04.cs.uiuc.edu/ ------- End of Forwarded Message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to the ptolemy-hackers mailing list. Please send administrative mail for this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
