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Sequentially Constructive Charts (SCCharts) SCCharts [5] is new visual synchronous language that is designed for specifying safety-critical reactive systems. SCCharts uses a new statechart notation similar to Harel Statecharts [3] and provides deterministic concurrency based on a synchronous model of computation (MoC), without restrictions common to previous synchronous MoCs like the Esterel constructive semantics [2]. Specifically, we lift earlier limitations on sequential accesses to shared variables, by leveraging the sequentially constructive MoC [4]. Thus SCCharts in short are SyncCharts [1] syntax plus Sequentially Constructive semantics. |
The key features of SCCharts are defined by a very small set of elements, the Core SCCharts, consisting of state machines plus fork/join concurrency. Conversely, Extended SCCharts contain a rich set of advanced features, such as different abort types, signals, history transitions, etc., all of which can be reduced via semantics preserving model-to-model (M2M) transformations into Core SCCharts. Extended SCCharts features are syntactic sugar because they can be expressed by a combination of Core SCCharts features. |
On the one hand this eases the compilation and makes it more robust because it reduces its complexity. On the other hand, using Extended SCCharts features, a modeler is able to abstract away complexity of his or her SCCharts model which increases robustness and readability of a model. This approach enables a simple yet efficient compilation strategy and aids verification and certification.
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