Realtime Software Engineering

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Real-time Software Engineering
Kevin Centofanti
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What is Real-time Software?

• Interacts with the external world in a time frame
  defined by the external world
• Hardware and Software
• Model Train
• John McCormick
• State University of New York, Plattsburgh

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Why use real-time?

• Integrates with mechanical and electrical
  engineering
• Robots
• Avionics
• Weapons

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Language

• C
• C
• Real-Time Java
• Ada
• Influence for Java
• Type safe
• Memory handling

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Language (cont.)

• Ada 95
• S. Tucker Taft
• OOP
• Ada vs. C
• 5 years with C -gt failure
• 1st year with Ada -gt success