Standard interface

[cxbrooks]

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Original bug ID: BZ#447
From: Elizabeth Latronico <beth@berkeley.edu>
Reported version: 8.1.devel

Blocker for: BZ#446

[cxbrooks]

Offer a standard interface for connecting to devices (both physical and virtual).

• Offer a standardized interface
• Provide formal semantics for the standardized interface
• Provide configuration infrastructure to map actors in model onto physical devices. Could be manual.
• Provide a publish and subscribe model of computation (use Wireless domain as a reference). Consider issues such as: Timestamps, non-deterministic pub/sub
• Provide a server-side way to run a pub/sub Ptolemy model (see "server-side execution" user story)