Model-based engineering of large-scale real-time systems

Instrumentation systems appear in nearly every field of complex systems development. Typically, the instrumentation system mirrors the complexity of the system being measured. In addition, the performance requirements force the instrumentation into a parallel real-time implementation. This paper describes a development environment, the Multigraph Architecture (MGA) for the development of complex instrumentation systems. Using the MGA, the aspects of the parallel system are modeled in multiple aspects, representing resources, requirements, and algorithms. The instrumentation system is automatically synthesized from high-level system models.