A Component-based Coordination Language for Efficient Reconfigurable Streaming Applications

Consumer electronics applications are becoming increasingly complex because of increased functionality requirements, such as watching multiple compressed video streams on a single screen. We address this complexity by allowing a programmer to specify the application in terms of independent components. Components interact using streaming communication and by sending and receiving events. From this component specification, the executable is generated. We use the Hinch run time system and the SpaceCAKE architecture to validate the effectiveness of our approach. Because the specification language is generic, the application can easily be ported to different platforms.