Accession Number:

ADA199482

Title:

Distributed Ada Real-Time Kernel

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST

Personal Author(s):

• Bamberger, Judy
• Colket, Currie
• Firth, Robert
• Klein, Daniel
• Van Scoy, Roger

Report Date:

1988-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

36.0

Abstract:

This paper addresses two distinct needs of real-time applications distribution and hard real-time scheduling mechanisms. Specifically, this paper rejects both the notion of modifying the Ada language to achieve needed real- time solutions and the current fad of extensively modifying the Ada compiler andor vendor-supplied runtime system. Instead, this paper defines the functionality of a Distributed Ada Real-Time Kernel hereafter called the Kernel. The goal of the Kernel is to support effectively the execution of distributed, real-time Ada applications in an embedded computer environment by returning control to the user, where it belongs.

Descriptors:

• *DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
• *EMBEDDING
• COMPILERS
• COMPUTERS
• CONTROL
• REAL TIME
• SCHEDULING
• SOLUTIONS(GENERAL)
• USER NEEDS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE