Object-oriented programming for embedded systems

  • Authors:
  • Stuart Maclean;Sean Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1995

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.01

Visualization

Abstract

Embedded systems are hard to program. Much of the effort is concentrated on processor-management code, effort totally unrelated to the application being built. Concurrent programming in embedded systems introduces even more problems --- mechanisms are needed to protect critical data areas. The application of object modeling to such mechanisms results in numerous benefits: fewer programming errors, enhanced portability and improved reuse. We present some simple in techniques for realising these benefits.