Reengineering a Single Threaded Embedded Missile Application onto a Parallel Processing Platform Using MetaH

This paper describes a software/hardware architectural transformation of a single threaded, cyclic executive based missile application to a multitasking, distributed application using MetaH (Binns and Vestal 1993a, 1993b, 1995). The benefits of this process are: it provides a traceable path to the original language implementation, it achieves data encapsulation and data flow understanding, it separates out concurrent processes, it results in an object based design, and MetaH provides a robust mechanism for multiprocessor distribution.