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1. Title:
   TCM Example cs348 unit3new
2. Description:

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   The syntax of a TCM is very similar to a method. You have a name, a parameter
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   list, and a block of code. The noticeable difference is the at followed by an
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   event name. This is called the default sampling event of the TCM. And it's the
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   main synchronization event for the execution. Inside the TCM you can execute
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   procedural action, actions and synchronization statements. So back in our
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   packet driver, we have our clock event. And here is our first example TCM. One
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   parameter called duration. And the default event is clock_f. But when you start
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    a thread or when you start a TCM, before anything gets executed, you need one
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    occurrence of the default event. So before we get into executing any of this,
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    this event needs to happen. We have two print statements, and then we have our
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    first synchronization action. We want to suspend the TCM execution by a number
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    of cycles, so we do wait duration times cycle. Cycle refers to the default
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    event, and duration is our input parameter. So here we can control how long
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    this TCM will suspend here. Once this temporal expression is finished. We fall,
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    fall down here, and execute further actions. So we have another print
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    statement, and then stop run to stop the simulation. In order to span off a
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    thread, you use the start action. So in the run phase at time 0, or just before
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    the simulation starts. We spawn off our thread, our TCM. And pass in 5 as a
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    parameter. You cannot call a TCM from a method because TCMs consume time. From
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    within a TCM, you could call another TCM. And this is like a suspend. So
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    calling another TCM will start that TCM. And when it's finished, they will,
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    control returns back to the calling TCM, and it will execute further. Let's
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    have a look at the log file. So here we can see, when we start running, we
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    don't get the print statements. We only get them after we had the first clock.
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    So at time 100 we get our clock, and then we get indication that our TCM has
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    started. It then waits for 5 cycles and prints that the TCM is now going to
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    end. And we call stop run to stop the simulation. So this is how you can
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    execute a method over time, and it's called a time consuming method.