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Real-Time Systems : Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification
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Author: Albert M. K. Cheng
List Price: $99.95
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ISBN: 0471184063
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience (26 July, 2002)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 616,764
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
A great book for learning about real-time systems.
This book does a good job of teaching the fundamentals of real-time systems, including what a real-time system is, where they are used, etc. It quickly gets you to understanding different scheduling algorithms (like the rate-monotonic scheduler VxWorks uses), their benefits, and being able to determine if the hardware can keep up with the timing requirements.The book contains a lot of interesting examples, starting slow with air conditioning/heating unit examples, to smart traffic lights, and on to more complicated ones such as NASA's Mars Odyssey, NASA's X-38 crew return vehicle avionics, and the Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvernig and Reaction Control Systems. The author does a good job of explaining complicated concepts.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very Good!
I'm no theory nut. I wanted to know about a few scheduling algorithms. I learned all I needed in chapter 1. Now I'm not afraid of doing more work in scheduling, perhaps even what's in chapter 2. It's math-oriented, but it's still readable by those who don't spend their days calculating the time complexities of algorithms. Overall, a very good book!
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