Automatic code generation based on generic description of intelligent instrument

Abstract

International audienceThis paper presents an automatic outputs generation based on XML description of intelligent instruments. This description uses the service based approach called INOMs. The XML representation of intelligent instruments enables three different outputs: user informations output in html format, supervisor information output, and source code output for selected field bus network target. The intelligent instrument model is briefly described and the area of interest consists in the automatic code generation. A basic example is presented in order to illustrate the different steps and to show the simplicity of the operational implementation

The Meta-Protocol framework

“…Our approach takes a design (i.e., the output of the APG process) and converts it into a specification used to automatically generate executable code for a protocol. Related work that includes the use of XML to produce program code can be found in [23]. In that work, an instrument designer produces an XML document that describes the instrument services.…”

Bowyer: A Planning Tool for Bridging the Gap between Declarative and Procedural Domains

“…XSLT templates specific to the virtual environment being used are then applied to the XML to generate the virtual environment source code. Other tools such as Captool (Perrin, Benoit and Foulloy 2002) and the MOmo compiler (Bichler 2003) use a similar approach to code generation to bridge the gap between domain experts and software engineers.…”

Temporal information modelling in the context of intelligent instruments

“…Solutions that cut the design process into two pieces, based on the same instrument modelling, have been proposed to simplify the work of the software engineer and the physicist (Benoit et al, 2000a, b). In this kind of approach, supervisor information and automatic code generation can be obtained (Wollschlaeger et al, 2001;Perrin et al, 2002).…”