Section: Software
Eclipse plugins for Polychrony
Participants : Christian Brunette, Loïc Besnard.
We have developed a metamodel and interactive editor of Polychrony in Eclipse. Signal-Meta is the metamodel of the Signal language. It describes all syntactic elements specified in [55] : all Signal operators (e.g. arithmetic, clock synchronization), model (e.g. process frame, module), and construction (e.g. iteration, type declaration). Signal-Meta has been extended to allow the definition of mode automata to extend the functionality-oriented data-flow paradigm with the capability to model transition systems easily and provide an additional imperative flavor (Sec. 5.4 ).
These metamodels aim at providing a user with a graphical framework allowing to model applications using a component-based approach. Application architectures can be easily described by just selecting these components via drag and drop, creating some connections between them and specifying their parameters as component attributes. Using the modeling facilities provided with the Topcased framework, we have created a graphical environment for Polychrony (see figure 7 ) called SME (Signal-Meta under Eclipse). To hightlight the different parts of the modeling in Signal, we split the modeling of a Signal process in three diagrams: one to model the interface of the process, one to model the computation (or dataflow) part, and one to model all explicit clock relations and dependences. The SME environment is available through teh Espresso update site [47] , in the current OpenEmbeDD distribution [46] , or in the TopCased v2.0 experimental distribution [48] .
