Graphical programming for the transputer

Abstract

The Multigraph programming environment provides a very-high-level programmer interface for the development of parallel and real-time processing systems. It is specifically targeted for large systems wishing to integrate a knowledge-based synthesis technique with standard numerical techniques. The result is a graphical editing environment where the user models the structure of the desired computation. Subsequently, symbolic techniques are used to translate this model to a large-grain data-flow graph. A description is given of the concepts and use the Multigraph programming environment on a tightly coupled parallel processing platform, the INMOS transputer.<>