On the use of Gedae for the implementation of multifunction RADAR applications

The difficulty of developing multifunction radar systems is compounded by development of complex software applications. Simplifying the development of software can go a long way toward decreasing the long development schedules and latency between the availability of new hardware and the transition of that hardware to production systems. This paper discusses the features of Gedae that facilitate developing sensor systems, specifically multifunction radar systems. In the paper we show that a small number of concepts (families, data flow, segmentation, exclusion and state) provide a powerful language for expressing the functional behavior of multi-function radars. We also show that it is possible to algorithmically create an efficient implementation of the functionality on a multiprocessor system.