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The basic goal of the project reported in. this paper was to design and implement an experimental multimicroprocessor system dedicated to the real-time parallel simulation of dynamic systems of various degrees of complexity. The implemented multimicroprocessor called RAMS is also used to study the parallelization concepts of dynamic system models. Potential applica tion of RAMS is in the process control area. The RAMS hardware architecture and software concepts, in particular the auto matic synthesis of RAMS application software, are given in some detail. The problems of both task creation and schedul ing in the non-deterministic RAMS environment are addressed. The experimen tal results show the power of RAMS through the parallel simulation of a case study dynamic system.

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Multiprocessors Real Time Simulation Automatic Program Synthesis.

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A multiprocessor system for dynamic system simulation

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