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What is ForSyDe IO
ForSyDe IO can be defined in three stacking levels. They are,
- A graph-based meta-model that accepts loops and multiple edges between nodes and has notions of interfaces [1, 2, 3],
- An exchange format to save and load this graph model in-memory,
- Supporting libraries implementing basic routines for a few languages.
Goals
ForSyDe IO has similar goals to what Intermediate Representations do to conventional programming language compilation, except for model-driven engineering flows. In particular, it has ForSyDe as the main target.
ForSyDe IO is mainly intended to be used as a library and to be used by tools and tool developers. Both in conceptually and in supporting library implementations. ForSyDe IO is designed like this so that different steps of the design flow can share a common model. For the sake of convenience, there exists a thin CLI application built on top of ForSyDe IO for quick model-to-model transformations. You can find this tool in the ForSyDe IO repos with the name ConverSyDe.