Tools for Generating Application-Tailored Multimedia Protocols on Heterogeneous Multi-Processor Platforms

This paper describes an integrated set of tools for generating application-tailored communication protocol machines. In addition to simplifying the process of generating protocols by automatingcertain development steps, these tools also facilitate the mapping of platform-independent protocol machines onto several types of multi-processor end-system architectures. An overview of the steps used to generate customized protocol machines is presented and a set of criteria for characterizing tool behavior are defined. Three distinct classes of tools are examined: (1) configuration tools transform highlevel application specifications into platform-independent protocol machine configurations by selecting and ordering the requisite protocol functions, (2) synthesis tools compose and statically interconnect platform-dependent object-code and data to form executable protocol machine instantiations, and (3) mapping tools place these executable instantiations onto processing elements in the run-time environment of shared-memory or message-passing target platforms.

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