THE DATA DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE EAST - A TUTORIAL

Published date

25-02-2014

Publisher

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

1 INTRODUCTION
2 OVERVIEW
3 PRODUCING EAST DATA DESCRIPTIONS
4 USING EAST DATA DESCRIPTION RECORD
5 RECOMMENDED PRACTICES AND LIMITATIONS
6 EAST AND DATA DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
ANNEX A - ACRONYMS AND GLOSSARY
ANNEX B - SYNTAX RULES
ANNEX C - TOOLS FOR AN EAST ENVIRONMENT
ANNEX D - DATA DESCRIPTION RECORD EXAMPLES
ANNEX E - COMPLIANCE MATRIX
ANNEX F - COMPARISON BETWEEN ADA AND EAST
INDEX

Specifies the usage of the EAST language, its format and construction rules as well as suggested practices.

DocumentType	Standard
PublisherName	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Status	Current

NASA CCSDS 647.1-B : ISSUE 1	DATA ENTITY DICTIONARY SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE (DEDSL) - ABSTRACT SYNTAX
NASA CCSDS 644.0-B : ISSUE 3	THE DATA DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE EAST SPECIFICATION

ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998	Information technology 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1
NASA CCSDS 643.0-B : ISSUE 1	ASCII ENCODED ENGLISH
NASA CCSDS 630.0-B : ISSUE 1	STANDARD FORMATTED DATA UNITS - CONTROL AUTHORITY PROCEDURES
ISO 1539:1980	Programming languages FORTRAN
NASA CCSDS 646.0-G : ISSUE 1	THE DATA DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE EAST - LIST OF CONVENTIONS
NASA CCSDS 620.0-B : ISSUE 2 COR 1 1996	STANDARD FORMATTED DATA UNITS - STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION RULES
IEEE 754-2008 REDLINE	IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
ISO/IEC 8652:2012	Information technology — Programming languages — Ada
NASA CCSDS 644.0-B : ISSUE 3	THE DATA DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE EAST SPECIFICATION