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This chapter describes the design-flow approach developed in the REFLECT project as presented originally in [1]. Over the course of the project, this design-flow has evolved and has been extended into a fully operational toolchain. We begin by presenting an overview of the underlying aspect-oriented compilation flow followed by an extended description of the design-flow and its toolchain.
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AspectJ [4], a well-known AOP approach for Java, uses pointcut, and advice as operators.
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They can refer to the entire application, a specific function, all or a specific loop, or even a specific location in the code for which an annotated label in the C code is used.
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The revision of an aspect might be needed to preserve its coherence as in some cases a transformation might remove elements such a joint points from the application source code representation for which there were references in the original aspect.
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During the design-flow a join point might be removed by a previous tool’s action or might be different from the original when a previous tool transforms the code.
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The VHDL generator used in the back-end of CoSy may not support all C constructs.
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Cardoso, J.M.P. et al. (2013). The REFLECT Design-Flow. In: Cardoso, J., Diniz, P., de Figueiredo Coutinho, J., Petrov, Z. (eds) Compilation and Synthesis for Embedded Reconfigurable Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4894-5_2
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