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A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems (The Kluwer International Series in Enginee)
Published in Hardcover by Kluwer Academic Publishers (1993)
Authors: Mark H. Klein, Thomas Ralya, Bill Pollak, and Ray Obenza
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A must-have book for Real-Time system designers/programmers
This book is a rare commodity in the area of Real-Time systems. While there are several books on programming in general and object oriented methods in specific for real-time and embedded developers, few approach the subject from timing prodictability point of view.

In several ways, this book has first appeared way ahead of its time. When the processing capacity itself was not available, several embedded developers were more concerned about optimizing their applications for that elusive 'speed' than being worried about building fully predictable systems using proven design methodologies geared towards guaranteeing timing predictability, which inheretly introduce certain inefficiencies in common perception. Therefore, these techniques were deemed to be applicable to only those exotic world of 'hard-real time' systems such as defense, nuclear and not to mere mortals.

With modern processors becoming more and more powerful and devices being targeted to mass markets (e.g! ., set-top boxes, personal communication devices, home automation etc) the market is ready to demand (and of course, get) timing predictability out of embedded devices. Developers therefore need standard books like this and standard software tools (e.g., TimeWiz) to meet this shifting paradigm.

The methods described in this book can be looked at a precursor to a set of "structured methods" for designing real-time systems, based upon temporal modeling (as opposed to object modelling).


Italian and Spanish Books: The Mark. J. Millard Architectural Collection, Volume 4
Published in Hardcover by George Braziller (2001)
Authors: Martha D. Pollak and Earl A. Powell
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Sports Leagues and Teams: An Encyclopedia, 1871 Through 1995
Published in Hardcover by McFarland & Company (1997)
Author: Mark Pollak
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