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We show how the synchronous programming language Esterel can be extended by a new statement to implement mutual exclusive code sections. We also show how the thereby extended Esterel language can be translated back to standard Esterel and we prove the correctness of this transformation. Additionally, we show that the translation fits well into different verification approaches.
This work has been financed by the DFG priority program ‘Design and Design Methodology of Embedded Systems’.
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Schneider, K., Sabelfeld, V. (2000). Introducing Mutual Exclusion in Esterel. In: Bjøner, D., Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1755. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46562-6_40
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