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This paper describes a software/hardware architectural transformation of a single threaded, cyclic executive based missile application to a multitasking, distributed application using MetaH (Binns and Vestal 1993a, 1993b, 1995). The benefits of this process are: it provides a traceable path to the original language implementation, it achieves data encapsulation and data flow understanding, it separates out concurrent processes, it results in an object based design, and MetaH provides a robust mechanism for multiprocessor distribution.
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McConnell, D.J., Lewis, B. & Gray, L. Reengineering a Single Threaded Embedded Missile Application onto a Parallel Processing Platform Using MetaH. Real-Time Systems 14, 7–20 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007937702003
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