Rapid Prototyping of Embedded Communication Systems

The rapid prototyping technique, which covers not only communication but also specification language and systems architecture prototyping, consists of the following steps: (i) definition of a concrete specification language, which fits the concrete application and implementation domains, and description of its semantics by an attribute grammar; (ii) description of this attribute grammar either by text macros or by a definite clause grammar in frame of Prolog, aiming at a straightforward translator prototype implementation; (iii) design of a trial communication architecture and identification of its reusable components; (iv) specification of a target communication system using the trial system architecture and the devised specification language; (v) macroprocessor or Prolog-driven expansion of that specification into an executable code fitting the trial system architecture; and (vi) final compilation and execution or interpretation of the expanded code complemented by reusable system components of the trial architecture.