Title :
SDL-to-C conversion for implementing embedded WLAN protocols
Author :
Hannikainen, M. ; Takko, A. ; Knuutila, J. ; Hämäläinen, T.D. ; Saarinen, J.
Author_Institution :
Digital & Comput. Syst. Lab., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland
Abstract :
The Specification and Description Language (SDL) for implementing embedded digital signal processor (DSP) applications has been studied for developing a wireless local area network (WLAN) demonstrator. The main DSP application is the medium access control (MAC) protocol. The protocol has been implemented using SDL and is being ported into the DSP of the demonstrator platform. C source code is automatically generated from the formal SDL model and compiled to build an executable protocol application. For the SDL-to-C conversion, a commercial development tool has been utilised. The tool provides a special converter for smaller scale systems. The converter can be scaled and optimised according to the properties of the source SDL model. By careful manual optimisation, the protocol performance and size requirements are improved
Keywords :
C language; access protocols; digital signal processing chips; program compilers; software tools; specification languages; wireless LAN; C source code; MAC protocol; SDL-to-C conversion; Specification and Description Language; automatic code generation; embedded WLAN protocols; embedded digital signal processor applications; executable protocol; medium access control protocol; performance; software tools; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Application software; Computer networks; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processors; Embedded computing; Laboratories; Media Access Protocol; Object oriented modeling; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 2000. IECON 2000. 26th Annual Confjerence of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Nagoya
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6456-2
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2000.972382
