Summary of Work Done ('98 - '99)

Areas of work

Telepresence - A pilot project

The field deal with the issues that need to be addressed when operating equipment situated at remote locations. The overall aim is to provide an illussion of actually being in the work environment. The specific aim of the project is to build a remotely piloted vehicle from easily available technology.

Towards this end, an I/O card for PC based used has been designed and a prototype built. Driver for this card is under developement on Linux, a freely available OS. Th mechanical components that will need to be used have been identified and an overall plan drawn up for continuation of work.

P. Bhuvad, V. Mayekar, B.Rajan, R.K.Shyamasundar

Multiclock Esterel

M-EST is a generalization of ESTEREL which allows this. M-EST provides for latching of signals and allows one to deal asynchronous signals.

We have explored the use of M-EST in the domain of hardware specification and shown that a large class of VHDL specifications can be translated into M-EST specification. This will enable one to study behavioral properties of circuits in a more formal setting.

Completed and submitted my thesis which defined Multiclock Esterel and amongst other things dealt with aspects mentioned above.

B.Rajan R.K.Shyamasundar

Publications

In Proceedings/Journals

B.Rajan, R.K.Shyamasundar - "Modelling Hardware in Multiclock Esterel" - Submitted to 36th Design Automation Conference, New Orleans, June 21 - 25, 1999

In Workshops

B.Rajan - "Multiclock Esterel" - Intl. Workshop on Hybrid Systems,TIFR, Bombay, India, Jan 07 -11, 1999.
B.Rajan - "Tutorial on Esterel" - Intl. Workshop on Hybrid Systems,TIFR, Bombay, India, Jan 07 -11, 1999.

basant@tcs.tifr.res.in - Basant - TCS Group [Feb99]