The MuTEAM system: general guidelines

The aim of this prototype is the development of integrated design methodologies for distributed multimicroprocessor systems for real time applications. The main goals are modularity, expandibility, error confinement and robustness: such goals have been approached by the definition of a system organization that unifies hardware configuration, fault tolerance and operating system kernel requirements. The system is conceived as a hierarchical structure, composed of several virtual levels. Starting from the higher level specifications, the next lower level functionalities have to be excerpted, without any previous binding of specific functions to specific levels. This means, for example, that fault treatment needs not to be delegated only to hardware level.