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The Complete Edition - Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems

By : Jim Cooling
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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

8.5 Review

At this stage, you should:

  • Know what is meant by the terms monolithic, modular, and independent when applied to the development and construction of software
  • Recognize the pros and cons of these different approaches
  • Understand how these relate to current mainstream embedded programming languages
  • Appreciate why proper packaging of software is important, especially in larger and long-life systems
  • See the benefits of using component technology in modern software systems
  • Appreciate what features are needed in languages to facilitate component design and construction
  • Know how to show class packaging using UML diagrams
  • Know how to show components, component relationships, and component deployment using UML notation
  • Be able to model package and component relationships using UML notation
  • Appreciate the range of features normally provided by modern high-level languages; be able to assess the capability of the language(s) in use on your current...