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Real Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems (Embedded Technology)

Douglass Ph.D., Bruce Powel 2006

This practical new book provides much-needed, practical, hands-on experience capturing analysis and design in UML. It holds the hands of engineers making the difficult leap from developing in C to the higher-level and more robust Unified Modeling Language, thereby supporting professional development for engineers looking to broaden their skill-sets in order to become more saleable in the job market.

It provides a laboratory environment through a series of progressively more complex exercises that act as building blocks, illustrating the various aspects of UML and its application to real-time and embedded systems. With its focus on gaining proficiency, it goes a significant step beyond basic UML overviews, providing both comprehensive methodology and the best level of supporting exercises available on the market. Each exercise has a matching solution which is thoroughly explained step-by-step in the back of the book. The techniques used to solve these problems come from the author's decades of experience designing and constructing real-time systems. After the exercises have been successfully completed, the book will act as a desk reference for engineers, reminding them of how many of the problems they face in their designs can be solved.

*Tutorial style text with keen focus on in-depth presentation and solution of real-world example problems

*Highly popular, respected and experienced author

*CD includes test version of the popular Rhapsody tool, allowing engineers to capture and work out the exercises in the book


Why Read This Book

You will learn how to capture requirements and design real-time embedded systems using UML through progressive, hands-on exercises that bridge C-based firmware thinking to higher-level, model-driven design. The book emphasizes statecharts, timing and concurrency concerns, and pragmatic patterns that help you produce clearer architectures and better communication with hardware and software teams.

Who Will Benefit

Best suited for intermediate-to-senior embedded/firmware engineers and system architects who want to adopt UML or model-driven approaches to design real-time, RTOS-based systems and improve system-level specification and team collaboration.

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