On synchronization in hard-real-time systems

  • Authors:
  • Stuart R. Faulk;David L. Parnas

  • Affiliations:
  • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC;Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The design of software for hard-real-time systems is usually difficult to change because of the constraints imposed by the need to meet absolute real-time deadlines on processors with limited capacity. Nevertheless, a new approach involving a trio of ideas appears to be helpful for those who build software for such complex applications.