Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Newsletter

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Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Newsletter

Issue 20 - 27th March 1995

Editor - Hugh Glaser

Today's Seminar

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