Real-time systems and software / Alan C. Shaw.

Table of content
Chapter 1 The world of real-time systems
1.1 What are real-time systems?
1.2 Some history
1.3 Computer hardware for monitoring and control
1.4 Software engineering issue

Chapter 2 Software Architecture
2.1 Process and state-based systems model
2.2 Cyclic executives
2.3 Foreground-Background organizations
2.4 Standard OS and concurrency
2.5 Systems objects and object oriented

Chapter 3 Requirements and Design specifications
3.1 Survey and classification of notations
3.2 Data flow diagrams
3.3 Tabular languages
3.4 State machines

Chapter 4 Systems of state Machines
4.1 Communicating real-time state machines
4.2 Statecharts

Chapter 5 Declarative specifications
5.1 Regular expressions and extensiuons
5.2 Traditional logics
5.3 Real-time logic

Chapter 6 Deterministic scheduling
6.1 Assumptions and candidate algorithms
6.2 Basic RM and EDF results
6.3 Relaxing and assumptions
6.4 Process interactions
6.5 Some practical issues

Chapter 7 Execution Time Prediction
7.1 Approaches and issues
7.2 Measurements of software by software
7.3 Program analysis with timing schema
7.4 Prediction by optimization
7.5 System interferences

Chapter 8 Keeping Time on Computers
8.1 Timer applications
8.2 Properties of real and ideal clocks
8.3 Cock servers
8.4 Clock synchronization

Chapter 9 Programming Languages
9.1 Real-Time languages features
9.2 Ada
9.3 Ada and software fault tolerance
9.4 Java and real-time 4expressions
9.5 CPS and Occan,
etc

Chapter 10 Operating systems
10.1 Real-Time functions and services
10.2 OS architectures
10.3 Issues in Task management
10.4 Interruptions and the OS

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Bibliography : p. 201 - 206 . -- Index : p. 207 - 215