Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java

(Volume 2: Ptolemy II Software Architecture)

(Volume 1: Introduction to Ptolemy II)

(Volume 3: Ptolemy II Domains)

Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Elaine Cheong, John Davis II, Mudit Goel, Christopher Hylands, Bart Kienhuis, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Lukito Muliadi, Steve Neuendorffer, John Reekie, Neil Smyth, Jeff Tsay, Brian Vogel, Winthrop Williams, Yuhong Xiong, Yang Zhao, Haiyang Zheng

Memorandum UCB/ERL M03/28,
EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720
July 16, 2003

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ABSTRACT

This volume describes the software architecture of Ptolemy II. The first chapter covers the kernel package, which provides a set of Java classes supporting clustered graph topologies for models. Cluster graphs provide a very general abstract syntax for component-based modeling, without assuming or imposing any semantics on the models. The actor package begins to add semantics by providing basic infrastructure for data transport between components. The data package provides classes to encapsulate the data that is transported. It also provides an extensible type system and an interpreted expression language. The graph package provides graph-theoretic algorithms that are used in the type system and by schedulers in the individual domains. The plot package provides a visual data plotting utility that is used in many of the applets and applications. Vergil is the graphical front end to Ptolemy II and Vergil itself uses Ptolemy II to describe its own configuration.

Volume 1 gives an introduction to Ptolemy II, including tutorials on the use of the software, and volume 3 describes the domains, each of which implements a model of computation.