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The Complete Edition - Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems

By : Jim Cooling
Book Image

The Complete Edition - Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems

By: Jim Cooling

Overview of this book

From air traffic control systems to network multimedia systems, real-time systems are everywhere. The correctness of the real-time system depends on the physical instant and the logical results of the computations. This book provides an elaborate introduction to software engineering for real-time systems, including a range of activities and methods required to produce a great real-time system. The book kicks off by describing real-time systems, their applications, and their impact on software design. You will learn the concepts of software and program design, as well as the different types of programming, software errors, and software life cycles, and how a multitasking structure benefits a system design. Moving ahead, you will learn why diagrams and diagramming plays a critical role in the software development process. You will practice documenting code-related work using Unified Modeling Language (UML), and analyze and test source code in both host and target systems to understand why performance is a key design-driver in applications. Next, you will develop a design strategy to overcome critical and fault-tolerant systems, and learn the importance of documentation in system design. By the end of this book, you will have sound knowledge and skills for developing real-time embedded systems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
15
Glossary of terms

11.11 Integrated Development Toolsets

11.11.1 Backend Toolsets

Modern microprocessors, with their enormous increase in complexity, have brought a new set of problems for the embedded systems engineer. A whole battery of tools and techniques – as described throughout this book – are needed to deal with these. The basis for this is the integrated development toolset, usually centered on a PC platform. Bear in mind that such tools are designed mainly to support the later or "backend" development of software:

Figure 11.59: Hardware configuration of a modern integrated development toolset

However, for modern mainstream microcontroller-based development, the toolset is usually much simpler:

Figure 11.60: Microcontroller-oriented integrated development toolset

Modern commercial IDEs provide a whole range of features, including:

  • Basic toolchains for embedded languages (C/C++, possibly Ada, and Java)
  • Debugger...