Declarative Systems & Software Engineering
Newsletter
Issue 20
- 27th March 1995
Editor - Hugh Glaser
Contents:
- Editorial
- Today's Seminar
No news (good news?)
Object-Oriented Programming for Embedded Systems
Stuart Maclean
Abstract
Embedded systems are hard to program. Much of the effort is
concentrated on processor-management code, effort totally unrelated to
the application being built. Concurrent programming on embedded
systems introduces even more problems --- mechanisms are needed to
protect critical data areas. The application of object modelling to
such mechanisms results in numerous benefits: fewer programming
errors, enhanced portability and improved reuse. We present some
simple techniques for realising these benefits.
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Hugh Glaser
Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Group
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton