• Block diagram programming language
• Component-based language promotes software reuse and provides the basis for partitioning and mapping to multiple processors
• Self-documenting software model
• Block diagram along with comments and links to requirements traceability management tools allow the Gedae model to also serve as a specification document
• Hierarchy, Family, and Route Boxes
• Data distribution and parallelization is easily parameterized and expressed in the block diagram
• Data flow graph language
• An intuitive way of expressing software control that provides the basis for many compiler optimizations such as threading and mode control
• IO Primitives and Pause/Resume functions
• Easily and effectively incorporate ADCs and IO devices in Gedae graphs
• Parameter Evaluation and Trigger boxes
• Fully automated management of parameter calculation and the basis for GUIs and the expression of state machines
• Signal flow graph language
• Portability to FPGAs and optimizations at the for-loop level

Compilation Parameters

• Threading
• Automatically group components into threads, where the order of execution for the components in each thread are preplanned
• Partitioning and Mapping
• Easily distribute (and redistribute) processing across multiple processors, automatically incorporating the necessary communication into the threads
• Transfer methods
• Provides access to all available transfer types and their parameters, from which Gedae adds the glue code necessary to ensure non-deadlocking execution
• Granularity
• Increase the vectorization of the application up to the bounds of the system memory to maximize the efficiency of the innermost for-loops
• Memory partitioning
• Allows developers to map data streams or queues to different memory banks or buffers in the system
• Queue capacities
• Automatically evaluates the required queue sizes needed to ensure proper operation, and allows the developer to increase these sizes to prevent undesired blocking
• Launch Package
• One step creation of a standalone set of executables, completely divorced from the development environment, along with options for launching from EEPROM, executable compression, and other features
• Memory Packing
• Automatically preplan memory usage and identify buffers that can be reused during execution

Analysis

• Flattened graph
• Easily view and debug data flow issues
• Schedule display
• View the preplanned order of execution for each thread, as well as its memory usage during each stage
• Trace Table
• A wealth of timing information, both on the processor level and on the software component level, showing the execution timeline for each item in the system
• Parameter Trace
• Verbose accounting of all parameter evaluations, allowing for easier debugging of parameter and trigger issues
• Performance Simulation
• Simulate execution on virtual processors
• Distributed debugging
• Debug the execution of the multiprocessor application, including breakpoints, single stepping, and direct access to source code debugging

• Autodocumentation
• Automatic creation of an HTML document showing the block diagram, source code, and implementation settings
• Configuration management
• Track changes to components of the block diagram through direct access to common CM tools
• Archiving
• Easily capture a snapshot of the current state of the application in an archive