Real Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems (Embedded Technology)

By Bruce Powel Douglass

This practical new book provides much-needed, practical, hands-on experience capturing analysis and design in UML. It holds the hands of engineers making the difficult leap from developing in C to the higher-level and more robust Unified Modeling Language, thereby supporting professional development for engineers looking to broaden their skill-sets in order to become more saleable in the job market. It provides a laboratory environment through a series of progressively more complex exercises that act as building blocks, illustrating the various aspects of UML and its application to real-time and embedded systems. With its focus on gaining proficiency, it goes a significant step beyond basic UML overviews, providing both comprehensive methodology and the best level of supporting exercises available on the market. Each exercise has a matching solution which is thoroughly explained step-by-step in the back of the book. The techniques used to solve these problems come from the author's decades of experience designing and constructing real-time systems. After the exercises have been successfully completed, the book will act as a desk reference for engineers, reminding them of how many of the problems they face in their designs can be solved.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750679069
• ISBN13: 9780750679060
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Newnes
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Practical Hands on UML

Great book with several examples of using UML. It is of great help if one needs to get some practical, hands on experience, since it provides detailed information related to UML's usage (the book presents two pretty complete examples - Coyote Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Roadrunner Traffic Light Controller). I'd say it is invaluable to be used with other theoretical books on UML. It presents Harmony (Douglass and Hoffman's Systems and Software Engineering Process) and the accompanying CD has Rhapsody, a good modeling tool, along with all examples used throughout the book. I recommend it for both students and practitioners. Hope this helps!

Excellent! There is no RT-UML without reading Douglass books.

If you design and develop Real-Time and Embedded Systems, this book is absolutely a must, as well as "Real-Time Design Patterns" by the same author. Perhaps the two case studies treated in the book are not the best choice the author could make. Nevertheless, these books are corner-stones for model-driven design

many examples of applying UML

The many examples of UML are perhaps the best feature of the book. They give you practical insight into applying the UML diagrams. And may well be easier to follow than to look at the formal UML specs. For added motivation, the examples are all drawn from designing embedded systems. When, for example, you might see a state diagram, with all the states laid out. In general, UML is not confined to this field. Any given example could easily be re-imagined, with the UML boxes redone for other fields. The format of having questions with comprehensive answers will be very helpful to some readers. Most books on UML simply don't bother doing this. Which might be valid for experienced programmers. But for neophytes, this book could be a better read.

Good Overview of UML usec on practical embedd systems

I haven't had this book long, but it seems to provide an overall approach to using UML in several RT systems. Several of the example "systems" are used in the models presented througut the book. It goes through the examples systems for requirements analysis and modeling. It's a problem/answer style "textbook". It provides a brief introduction to UML in the initial chapter, which might not be enough if you are fairly new to modeling or the use of tools such as Rose, RMS, Rhapsody, or EA. The book contains a CD that has a demo version of Rhapsody that says it can generate code for an ARM9 target, for which it includes the Keil toolset and target simulator. It's a fairly readable book, even if you don't do all the examples and just look at the answers.