Real-time systems development / Rob Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Rob, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Real-time programming.

Real-time data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Real-time Systems Development is a text for computing students who want to understand more about the development of software for real-time applications, involving concurrent programming, multi-tasking, data i/o and embedded processors.The book has been written to cover single semester final year undergraduate options or MSc modules in the area of real-time systems design and implementation. Assuming a certain level of general systems design and programming experience, this text will extend students knowledge and skills into an area of computing which has increasing relevance in

Contents:

1. Introduction to real-time systems

2. Implementing simple real-time systems

3. Basic input and output

4. Cyclic executives for bare hardware

5. Finite state machines - design tool

6. Finite state machines - implementation options

7. Why multi-task?

8. Task communication and synchronization

9. Real-time executives

10. Using input/output interfaces

11. Structured design for real-time systems

12. Designing for multi-tasking

13. UML for real-time systems

14. Object-oriented approach for real-time systems

15. System integrity

16. Languages for RTS development - C, Ada and Java

17. Cross-development techniques

18. Microcontroller embedded systems

19. Linux device drivers

20. Hardware/software co-design

App. A. Using an oscilloscope for software debugging.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610639106

9781280639104

1280639105

9780080456409

0080456405

OCLC:

437172644

Publisher Number:

9780750664714