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%T HCSP: Extending CSP for Codesign and Shared Memory
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%A Adrian E. Lawrence
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%E Peter H. Welch, Andr\[`e] W. P. Bakkers
%B Proceedings of WoTUG\-21: Architectures, Languages and Patterns for Parallel and Distributed Applications
%X HCSP is a variant of CSP adapted to capture the semantics of
hardware compilation, among other purposes. It extends CSP
in several ways; it includes priority; events can be
combined; new synchronization constructors are introduced;
and state is explicitly modelled. Including state permits
the treatment of shared memory as well as message passing
systems. A possible denotational semantics is included here
ths allowing proper treatment of such systems. Although most
of these extensions were motivated by the needs of hardware
compilation, HCSP can be applied more widely including
software and thus can form the foundation of a codesign
language. HCSP is an extension of CSPP; familiarity of CSPP
is assumed here.