Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-Time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks and Patterns [With CD-Rom]

Presents an embedded systems programming methodology that has been proven successful in practice. This process allows applications developers to apply practical techniques, garnered from the mainstream areas of object-oriented software development, to meet the qualifications of real-time programming. CD-ROM included. DLC: Embedded computer systems--Programming.

Bruce Powel Douglass is the Chief Evangelist for i-Logix, a leading producer of tools for real-time systems development. He contributed to the original specification of the UML and to the UML 2.0 as one of the co-chairs of the Object Management Group’s Real-Time Analysis and Design Working Group. Bruce consults for a number of companies and organizations, including NASA, on building large-scale, real-time, safety-critical systems. He is the author of seven other books, including Real-Time Design Patterns (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and Doing Hard Time (Addison-Wesley, 1999).