Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Real-Time Systems 2. Designing Real-Time Systems 3. Programming in the Small 4. Programming in the Large 5. Reliability and fault tolerance 6. Exceptions and Exception Handling 7. Concurrent Programming 8. Shared Variable-Based Synchronization and Communication 9. Message-Based Syncronization and Communication 10. Atomic Actions, Concurrent Processes and Reliability 11. Resource Control 12. Real-Time Facilitites 13. Scheduling 14. Distributed Systems 15. Low-Level Programming 16. The Execution Environment 17. A Case Study in Ada 18. Conclusions Appendix: Real-Time Java Specification