A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems (Electronic Materials: Science & Technology) (Hardcover)

~ Mark Klein (Author), Thomas Ralya (Author), Bill Pollak (Author), Ray Obenza (Author), Michael González Harbour (Author) "In general, we assume that the reader has at least some experience (three to five years) as a real-time system developer and has had some..." (more)
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Guide to rate monotomic analysis for real-time systems. Contains a collection of quantitative methods that enable real-time system developers to understand, analyze, and predict the timing behavior of many real-time systems. DLC: Real-time data processing.

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• Hardcover: 712 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (August 31, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792393619
• ISBN-13: 978-0792393610
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have book for Real-Time system designers/programmers, July 20, 1998

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This book is a rare commodity in the area of Real-Time systems. While there are several books on programming in general and object oriented methods in specific for real-time and embedded developers, few approach the subject from timing prodictability point of view.

In several ways, this book has first appeared way ahead of its time. When the processing capacity itself was not available, several embedded developers were more concerned about optimizing their applications for that elusive 'speed' than being worried about building fully predictable systems using proven design methodologies geared towards guaranteeing timing predictability, which inheretly introduce certain inefficiencies in common perception. Therefore, these techniques were deemed to be applicable to only those exotic world of 'hard-real time' systems such as defense, nuclear and not to mere mortals.

With modern processors becoming more and more powerful and devices being targeted to mass markets (e.g! ., set-top boxes, personal communication devices, home automation etc) the market is ready to demand (and of course, get) timing predictability out of embedded devices. Developers therefore need standard books like this and standard software tools (e.g., TimeWiz) to meet this shifting paradigm.

The methods described in this book can be looked at a precursor to a set of "structured methods" for designing real-time systems, based upon temporal modeling (as opposed to object modelling).