Model Analysis via a Translation Schema to Coloured Petri Nets

Model-driven development (MDD) has become a success story and a de facto standard in the development of safety-critical embedded systems. The daily work in the development of such systems cannot be imagined without industry standard CASE tools like e.g. MATLAB/Simulink. Often however, the analysis capabilities of such tools are limited. Therefore, we propose to combine them with the powerful analysis tools developed for Coloured Petri Nets (CPNs). In this paper, we present a translation schema from COLA—a synchronous data-flow language—to CPNs. We believe this approach to be also feasible for other data-flow languages as long as they have a welldefined syntax and semantics. The combination of both modelling languages allows us to verify properties of COLA models using algorithms and tools designed for CPNs. An example demonstrates the viability of this approach.