Real-Time Systems and Software

Emphasizing concepts and principles, this book provides readers with an accessible approach to software design. It presents several examples of commercial and research systems throughout the chapters to explain and justify the concepts. And the material presented is technically diverse, including discussions of state machines, logic, concurrent programming, and scheduling algorithms.

REAL-WORLD PRINCIPLES FOR REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

Featuring a careful balance of theory and Practice, Alan Shaw's REAL-TIME SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE equips readers with fundamental concepts, principles, and methods for specifying designing, and implementing real-time computer systems. Coverage includes such key topics as software architectures, informal and formal specification methods, deterministic scheduling, execution time analysis, computer clocks and time services, real-time programming languages, and operating systems.

The text provides readers with numerous opportunities to apply what they've learned. An appendix contains a comprehensive project on air traffic control, and exercises at the end of every section offer additional practical experience. the author also refers to many examples of commercial and research systems to explain and justify concepts.

Additional features:

• Includes specification methods for requirements and designs, including tables, data flow diagrams, real-time logic, and state machines.
• Covers principal software architectures, from cyclic executive, to object-oriented, to standard process-based.
• Discusses methods for predicting program execution times.
• Introduces modern languages, such as Ada and real-time Java, and systems, such as real-time Unix and Posix.
• An accompanying Web site (www.wiley.com/college/shaw) provides additional resources, tools, and links.