Some notes for Software Engineering -- Real-Time

by Herbert J. Bernstein © Copyright Herbert J. Bernstein, 2002

Real-Time

The design of real-time systems can be fundamentally different from the design of ordinary applications. When so-called real-time demands do not crowd push resource limits, then ordinary software engineering approaches may work. However, when the applications proposed push available pools of time, space or other resources, the handling of those constraints can dominate the design leading to approaches that would never be considered in projects less demanding of resources.