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Software Engineering, 10th Edition
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Software Engineering, 10th Edition

by Ian Sommerville
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
36h 46m
English
Pearson
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Key Points

  • An embedded software system is part of a hardware/software system that reacts to events in its environment. The software is “embedded” in the hardware. Embedded systems are normally real-time systems.

  • A real-time system is a software system that must respond to events in real time. System ­correctness does not just depend on the results it produces, but also on the time when these results are produced.

  • Real-time systems are usually implemented as a set of communicating processes that react to stimuli to produce responses.

  • State models are an important design representation for embedded real-time systems. They are used to show how the system reacts to its environment as events trigger changes of state in the system.

  • Several ...

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ISBN: 9780137586691