SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING AND DISTRIBUTING BLOCK-BASED FRAGMENTS

摘要

A distributed block-based programming model for control applications such as multimedia based real-time applications is described. According to one aspec t of the invention, user program specifies interconnections between a pluralit y of program blocks distributed across a plurality of processing nodes. The us er program is automatically translated into a system-level program having a program fragment for each one of the processing nodes. Each one of the progr am fragments comprise the program blocks located on the processing node and one or more system-level blocks for establishing connections between the processing node and a different processing node across a network.