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From: unido!unidocv.!dettmer@uunet.UU.NET (Thomas Dettmer)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: concurrent program visualization
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Date: 2 May 89 12:37:38 GMT
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Hi folks,

I'm planning to build a mixed textual and graphical interface for 
a hardware simulator and it's interactive debugger (underlying language
is DACAPO-III, a high level language near VHDL.) Maybe later a
generator for such interfaces will be the goal. 

Most of the basic problems arising are language independent and will
always appear visualizing the behavior of parallel processes with
high communication rates (e.g. large transputer programs). Some of
them are:
  - displaying the dataflow network and it's activity's
  - static and dynamic views on the single processes/architecture
    entitys and their activitys
  - focussing in such an environment

Therefore I'm searching for references (basic and specilized) and
any other help on the following topics:

General:
- State of the art in program visualization (static/dynamic)
- State of the art in debugging concurrent, event driven programming 
  languages
- Standards for electronic engeneers for visualization of hardware and 
  it's states (hope there are more than e. g. how to present an AND gate)

Special:
- parallel program visualization/event  monitoring
- graphical notations for describing the execution of concurrent programs
- [Generation of] graphical interfaces for [debugging of] parallel processes

Please answer per email. If there is much interest, I'll summarize
the literature list.

Thanks in advance for any help
                                tom.

PS: Can anybody tell me the result of the discussion about
    comp.lang.vhdl or something like that?
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