Real-Time Systems
by Jane W. S. Liu · Jane W. S. Liu
Graduate-level textbook on scheduling and resource management for hard real-time systems. Covers clock-driven, priority-driven, and rate-monotonic scheduling, schedulability analysis, resource access control protocols, and multiprocessor scheduling, preparing readers to determine whether a task set will meet its deadlines.
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rtems.org
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Textbook linking real-time theory with embedded engineering practice: microprocessors, interrupts, the boot process, real-time scheduling and task synchronization, plus UML-based modeling, design patterns, and standards conformance. Readers learn to design, document, and analyze embedded software that must meet timing constraints.
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embedded.com
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