Introduction to Real-time Software Design

1. Introduction
1.1 What are Real-time systems?
1.2 Software Costs
1.3 Virtual Machines
1.4 Summary

I The Real-Time Virtual Machine
2. The Real-time Virtual Machine-Its Properties
2.1 Processes
2.2 Communication
2.3 Synchronisation
2.4 Example
2.5 Summary
3. Implementing the Real-time Machine
3.1 Implementing Processes-Dedicated Resources
3.2 Implementing Processes-Shared Resources
3.3 Implementing Synchronisation
3.4 Implementing Communication
3.5 Monitors
3.6 Executive Processes
3.7 Building the System
3.8 Example
3.9 Summary
4. Scheduling
4.1 Interrupt Level
4.2 Clock Level
4.3 Base Level
4.4 Resource Sharing and Deadlock
4.5 Example
4.6 Summary
5. Reliability
5.1 Testing
5.2 Fault Tolerance
5.3 Fault Detection
5.4 Fault Recovery
5.5 Recovery Levels
5.6 Recovery Priority
5.7 Example
5.8 Summary

II Designing The Processes
6. Design Methodology
6.1 Correspondence
6.2 Simplicity
6.3 Summary
7. The Process Virtual Machine
7.1 The High-level Language Machine
7.2 The Interpreting Machine
7.3 The Finite State Machine
7.4 Summary

III Measuring The System
8. Performance Measurement
8.1 Modelling Techniques
8.2 Hardware-assessment Models
8.3 Monitoring Techniques
8.4 Summary
9. Current trends
- References and Selected Bibliography