real-time books (was: Getting started)

[Joel Sherrill]

Edi Im Hof wrote:
> 
> At 15:28 07.08.00 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >Edi,
> >
> >OK  I understand what you want.  In general an application for embedded
> >devices
> >is architected as follows:
> >
> >     foreground + background
> >
> >Foreground:
> >
> >1. Determine your sources of external inputs (you will handle this in
> >Interrupt
> >Service Routines ISRs)
> >
> >Background (C + RTOS):
> >
> >2. List what your system does
> >3. Prioritize what your system does.
> >4. Map list 3 to Task.
> >
> >A good source is from Phillipe LaPlante.
> >
> >-efren-
> 
> hi efren
> 
> Thanks for you reference, but I have found five books from Laplante,
> Phillip A. regarding real-time:
> 
> - Design and Application of Real-Time Systems (351 US$!)
> 
> - Introduction to Real-Time Imaging
> 
> - Real-Time Imaging : Theory, Techniques, and Applications
> 
> - A Practical Approach to Real-time Systems
> 
> - Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis : An Engineer's Handbook. Publ.
> Date: 1997.
> 
> Witch one were you refering to? Especially the first one seems to be a
> "bit" expensive, is this boot worth this price?

I would recommend perusing www.embedded.com and reading some 
articles from Embedded Systems Programming.  Unfortunately,
they do not have all of ESP's back content online but they
do have a CD with all issues from 1988-present for US$79.

I personally like Andy Wellings' books but the ones I have are
Ada programming books.  The book Concurrency in Ada is a 
book I look to for unusual concurrency constructs.  The logic
is the same even if the example code is in Ada.

Galmeister's POSIX Programming in the Real World is a nice book
on POSIX real-time programming.

Every book I know of has some drawback. :(

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