ID WORLD: AN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DATAFLOW PROGRAMS WRITTEN IN ID

The ID WORLD involves the interfacing of a compiler, interpreter, debugger and editor mode to create an environment for the development of dataflow programs written in ID. It replaces the Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture (TTDA) Emulator as the foundation for the Multiprocessor Emulation Facility at the Laboratory for Computer Science, M.I.T. This thesis presents the design of ID WORLD, noting the need for such a system, and includes a detailed examination of each subsystem. Special attention is paid to the problems inherent in the old TTDA Emulator, and how they were solved in the ID WORLD.