Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada

by Alan Burns , Andy Wellings

• ISBN13: 9780521866972
• ISBN10: 0521866979
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Ada is the only ISO-standard, object-oriented, concurrent, real-time programming language. It is intended for use in large, long-lived applications where reliability and efficiency are essential, particularly real-time and embedded systems. In this book, Alan Burns and Andy Wellings give a thorough, self-contained account of how the Ada tasking model can be used to construct a wide range of concurrent and real-time systems. This is the only book that focuses on an in-depth discussion of the Ada tasking model. Following on from the authors' earlier title Concurrency in Ada, this book brings the discussion up to date to include the new Ada 2005 language and the recent advances in real-time programming techniques. It will be of value to software professionals and advanced students of programming alike: indeed every Ada programmer will find it essential reading and a primary reference work that will sit alongside the language reference manual.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The nature and uses of concurrent programming

Inter-process communication

Task types and objects

The rendezvous

The select statement and the rendezvous

Protected objects and data-oriented communication

Avoidance synchronisation and the requeue facility

Exceptions, abort and asynchronous transfer of control

Object-oriented programming and tasking

Concurrency utilities

Tasking and systems programming

Scheduling real-time systems - fixed priority dispatching

Scheduling real-time systems - other dispatching facilities

Timing events and execution time control

Real-time utilities

Restrictions, metrics and the ravenscar profile

Conclusion

References

Index.

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