An object-oriented model for rapid prototyping of data path/control systems - a case study

Publicado em "Information control in manufacturing 1998 : (INCOM'98) : advances in industrial engineering : a proceedings volume from the 9th IFAC Symposium, Nancy-Metz, France, 24-26 June 1998. Vol. 2"

The aim of this article is to present how to use shobi-PN, an Object-Oriented Petri Net model to specify data path/control systems. In a case study, a transputer link adaptor is specified for rapid-prototyping by applying the shobi-PN model and the generation of VHDL code for simulation is presented. The case study demonstrates the applicability and the capability of a development process, supported by the use of object-oriented principles to model both the control unit and the data path of complex systems, with a developed CAD tool.