Designing parallel applications is generally experienced as a tedious and difficult task, especially when hard real-time performance requirements have to be met. This paper
discusses on-going work concerning the construction of a Design Entry System which
supports the design phase of parallel real-time industrial application development. In
particular, in this paper we pay attention to the development and implementation of a
graphical Application Design Language. The work is part of the ESPRIT project Hamlet which
focuses on industrial application of transputer-based systems for commercially strategic
real-time applications
