Safety-Critical Java (SCJ) is a restriction of the Real-Time Specification for Java to support the development and certification of safety-critical applications. The SCJ technology specification is the result of an international effort from industry and academia. In this paper, we present a formalisation of the SCJ Level 1 execution model, formalise a translation strategy from SCJ into a refinement notation, and describe a tool that largely automates the generation of the formal models. Our modelling language is part of the Circus family; at the core, we have Z, CSP, and Morgan's calculus, but we also use object-oriented and timed constructs from the OhCircus and Circus Time variants. Our work is an essential ingredient for the development of refinement-based reasoning techniques for SCJ.
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