Constructing Predictable Real Time Systems [Hardcover]

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Motivation.- 1.1.1 A Chemical Process Application.- 1.1.2 A Power Plant Application.- 1.1.3 A Fighter Aircraft Application.- 1.1.4 Real Time System Requirements.- 1.2 Predictability and Simplicity.- 1.3 Constructing Predictable Real Time SystemsNew Thinking Categories and Optimality Criteria.- 1.4 Guiding Principles for Predictable, Verifiable Real Time Software and Hardware.- 1.4.1 Language Assumptions.- 1.4.2 System Software and Hardware Assumptions.- 1.5 Book Outline.- 2 Real Time Features of High Level Languages.- 2.1 A Representative Real Time Application Design.- 2.2 Historical Development of Real Time Languages.- 2.3 Requirements of a Real Time Language.- 2.4 Review of Existing Languages.- 2.4.1 Pseudocodes and Assembly Languages.- 2.4.2 FORTRAN.- 2.4.3 JOVIAL.- 2.4.4 RTL/1 and RTL/2.- 2.4.5 PEARL.- 2.4.6 ILIAD.- 2.4.7 Modula and Modula-2.- 2.4.8 PORTAL.- 2.4.9 Ada.- 2.4.10 Forth.- 2.4.11 Languages for Programmable Logic Controllers.- 2.4.12 Experimental Hard Real Time Languages.- 2.4.13 Survey Summary.- 2.5 Taking a Closer Look at Real-Time Euclid.- 2.5.1 Language Structure.- 2.5.2 Real Time Units and Time Functions.- 2.5.3 Absence of Dynamic Data Structures.- 2.5.4 Time-Bounded Loops.- 2.5.5 Absence of Recursion.- 2.5.6 Processes.- 2.5.7 Condition Variables.- 2.5.8 Monitors, Signals, Waits and Broadcasts.- 2.5.9 Exception Handling.- 2.5.10 Summary.- 2.6 A Second Review  Focusing on Real Time Features.- 2.6.1 Selection of Reviewed Languages.- 2.6.2 A Survey of Real Time Features Supported.- 2.6.3 A Discussion of Additional Real Time FeaturesNeeded.- 2.6.4 Summary.- 2.7 Taking a Closer Look at Ada.- 2.7.1 Adas Limitations.- 2.7.2 Changing Ada.- 2.8 Taking a Closer Look at PEARL.- 2.8.1 An Overview of Basic PEARL.- 2.8.2 PEARLs Limitations.- 2.8.3 An Overview of Distributed PEARL.- 2.9 Proposal for an Extension of PEARL.- 2.9.1 Locks and Timeouts.- 2.9.2 Timed Synchronisation.- 2.9.3 Time-Bounded Loops.- 2.9.4 Status Operators.- 2.9.5 Slă!