Timing Analysis of Real-Time Software

Author: Rodd   M. G.;Motus   L.  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 1994

E-ISBN: 9780080983967

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780080420264

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780080420264

Subject: TP311 程序设计、软件工程

Language: ENG

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The authors set out to address fundamental design issues facing engineers when developing the software for real-time computer-based control systems – in which all programs must be safe, reliable, predictable and able to cope with the occurence of faults.

Despite rapid progress in computer technology, the attention of designers is still focused on finding logically correct algorithms to implement the required control. It has, however, become evident that this is insufficient and that attention must be paid to meeting the complex timing interactions which occur between the systems under control and the computers controlling them. This book suggests that the answers lie in the use of understandable, engineering-relevant, mathematically sound tools for expressing and analysing the complex temporal interactions.

Timing Analysis of Real-Time Software is not a designer's handbook; rather it discusses the nature of the problems involved and how they can be handled. The focus is on the use of modelling techniques based on the so-called Quirk-model, initially developed in the United Kingdom and, over the past decade, extensively developed in institutions in the ex-Soviet Union and Europe. This book shows how the techniques can be used to form the basis of a new generation of CASE (computer assisted software engineering) tools, and examples are given of how these can be used to design embedded systems ranging from digital controllers through to communication protoc

Chapter

Front Cover

pp.:  1 – 4

Copyright Page

pp.:  5 – 6

Table of Contents

pp.:  6 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.:  10 – 12

PREFACE

pp.:  12 – 16

Chapter 1. Characteristics of Real-Time Software

pp.:  16 – 42

Chapter 2. Time Concepts in Embedded Software

pp.:  42 – 56

Chapter 3. A Review of Embedded Software Description Methods

pp.:  56 – 72

Chapter 4. The Q-Model

pp.:  72 – 88

Chapter 5. Representation of the Q-Model

pp.:  88 – 103

Chapter 6. Describing Systems with the Q-Model: Some Examples

pp.:  103 – 116

Chapter 7. Analysis of a System Described by the Q-Model

pp.:  116 – 138

Chapter 8. Towards A Case Environment Based on the Q-Model

pp.:  138 – 160

Chapter 9. A Case Study: Specifying a Communications Protocol

pp.:  160 – 176

APPENDICES

pp.:  176 – 214

References

pp.:  214 – 224

Index

pp.:  224 – 228

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