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Overview
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.Editorials
From the Publisher
"this book provides a good overview of the issues" (Software Focus, August 2001)Booknews
Shaw (University of Washington) describes fundamental concepts, principles, and methods for specifying, designing, and implementing real-time computer systems. Coverage includes such topics as software architecture, informal and formal specification methods, deterministic scheduling, execution time analysis, computer clocks and time services, real-time programming languages, and operating systems. The book contains specification methods for requirements and designs, including tables, data flow diagrams, real-time logic, and state machines. An appendix features a comprehensive project on air traffic control. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
March 28, 2001
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780471354901