Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The systematic design of large real-time systems or interface simplicity

  • Embedded and Real-Time Systems
  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance (Fault Tolerance 1993)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 774))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

A key design decision during the development of large real-time systems concerns the decomposition of the system into a set of autonomous subsystem with simple and testable interfaces. In this paper it is argued that time-triggered architectures that eliminate the need for control signals passing subsystem interfaces are better suited for the implementation of large real-time systems than event-triggered architectures, where the control cannot be encapsulated.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Cristian, F., Aghili, H., Strong R. Dolev, D., Atomic Broadcast: From Simple message diffusion to Byzantine Agreement, Proc. FTCS 15, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 1985, pp.200–206

    Google Scholar 

  2. Kopetz, H., Kim, K.,Real-Time Temporal Uncertainties in Interactions among Real-Time Objects, Proc. of the 9th IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems, Huntsville, Al, Oct. 1990, pp.165–174

    Google Scholar 

  3. Kopetz, H. Sparse Time versus Dense Time in Distributed Real-Time Systems, Proc. of the 14th Distributed Computing System Conference, Yokohama, Japan, IEEE Press, June 1992

    Google Scholar 

  4. Kopetz, H., Reisinger, J, The Non Blocking Write Protocol NBW: A solution to a real-time synchronization problem. Proc. of the Real-Time Systems Symposium 1993, IEEE Press

    Google Scholar 

  5. Lewyn, M., Flying in Place: The FAA's Air-Control Fiasco, Business Week, April 26, 1993, p. 64–65

    Google Scholar 

  6. Schneider, F.B., Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services Using the State Machine Approach: A Tutorial, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 22, Nr. 4, December 1990, pp. 299–320

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Schutz, W., On the Testability of Distributed Real-Time Systems, Proc. of the 10th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Pisa, Italy, Sept. 1991, pp.52–61.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Technical University of Vienna, Austria

    H. Kopetz

Authors
  1. H. Kopetz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Michel Banâtre Peter A. Lee

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1994 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Kopetz, H. (1994). The systematic design of large real-time systems or interface simplicity. In: Banâtre, M., Lee, P.A. (eds) Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance. Fault Tolerance 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020039

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020039

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-57767-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48330-4

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation