Developing real-time embedded software is a specialty that requires knowledge of both embedded system design and timing constraints imposed by physical limitations of the hardware. The target audience for this presentation includes safety critical and mission critical embedded device designers and developers. This presentation's content will be equally useful to hardware designers who wish to utilize existing hardware more effectively and to software developers who wish to pack more features into their resource constrained embedded applications. Another key sign that it is time to review this presentation is when you might mistakenly wish your priority-based preemptive real-time scheduler could be redesigned to improve software performance - use RMA to avoid redesign.
    This 25 minute lecture demonstrates how to design predictable real-time software using the unified modeling language (UML) for functional design, document functional timing using RapidRMA thanks to UML 2.0 extensions, take advantage of the priority-based preemptive scheduler included in real-time operating systems, and then use RapidRMA again both for optimization of task priorities and to insure deadlines are met on the physical device.
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