Real Time Software For Small Systems

This book represents the necessary theoretical background needed to understand real-time systems and concurrent programming, together with numerous relevant examples for those who are concerned with designing any type of real-time operating system. It is tailored to the particular requirements of designers working with small micro-processor based systems. Guidance is also given on how to test, maintain, and document a real-time system. Aimed at both professional engineers designing real-time software and computer users who want to use their micros to advance their problem-solving skills, this book shows you how theory can be put into practice. Numerous applications are described, and these will be of considerable interest to all designers, whether they are working on such major industrial projects as robotics or on domestic systems such as intruder alarms. Contents include: examples of real time systems, structured programming for real time, designing a real time operating system, reliable software implementation, real time languages, and application examples