SDL-TRAN-An Interactive Generator for Formal Description Language SDL

SDL (Specification and Description Language) is an international standardformal description language which has been widely used for the specificationand description of communication systems. SDL is based on the concept ofthe state oriellted description technique - FSM (Finite State Machine). Thispaper reports an interactive generator for SDL, named SDL-TRAN, which canautomatically translate FSM expression into SDL description. Except for itsaatomatic translation part, SDLTRAN includes an userfriendly graPhical ed-itor which is used to get the other part of SDL description which cannot beautomatically translated.